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November 26, 2003When *I'm* in charge, things'll be different!
I was driving back to Riverside from Los Angeles this morning, as I often have reason to do. The drive was uneventful and I was making pretty good time, right up until an accident on the other side of the freeway slowed the traffic on my side.
How, you ask? How could it be that a car hitting the westbound side of the center divider would clog the progress of those going eastbound?
Rubbernecking.
Apparently, I was the only person driving out of Los Angeles this morning who had ever seen a fire truck, an ambulance, or a banged-up car. Everybody else had to slow down, gawk at the scene, then slowly regain awareness that they were on the freakin' freeway and pick it back up to a reasonable speed. Nothing was overturned. Nothing was on fire. It's not like a semi full of live turkeys had spilled its precious, tasty cargo onto the 60 East. It was just a fender-bender. Not nearly unusual enough to merit everybody staring like a bunch of mouth-breathers.
Let's put up billboards every four or five miles with a different auto accident on each one. Car versus Metrolink commuter train, say, or motorcycle versus pick-up truck (which I saw happen a few weeks back--when traffic was at a crawl, thankfully), or VW Beetle versus anything bigger than a puppy. That way, everybody can get their voyeuristic kicks without holding up the folks behind them.
Posted by patrick at November 26, 2003 08:28 PM
CommentsIt's because, basically, people are raving asshats. They can't handle any kind of novelty in their worlds, and so their little brains explode and they go into "Oh, wow" shutdown mode. No matter that the carnage is in another lane, far out of their experience... oh, no... they have to freak out, between applying make-up in the rearview and having their freaking cell-phones glued to their heads.
99% of the population are sheer Asshats. Sheep. Nothing but sheep. And so such shit happens. Why? Because most of the muggles out there freak out at any novelty. And such are the things that drive me nuts, too.
Ooh. Flashing lights in the other lane, going the other way. You know what? BFD. Put down your damn cappucino, put down your freaking cell-phone. Pay attenion to what's in front of you, not what's happening over there. Pull your ass out of your head, or vice versa, people.
Patrick is right. There's no reason an accident going the other way should have any effect -- except that, you're being stupid. Uttterly, totally stuid.
And readers of this blog aren't that. Right?
Right...?
Posted by: Jon Bastian at November 27, 2003 02:49 AM
It's because, basically, people are raving asshats. They can't handle any kind of novelty in their worlds, and so their little brains explode and they go into "Oh, wow" shutdown mode. No matter that the carnage is in another lane, far out of their experience... oh, no... they have to freak out, between applying make-up in the rearview and having their freaking cell-phones glued to their heads.
99% of the population are sheer Asshats. Sheep. Nothing but sheep. And so such shit happens. Why? Because most of the muggles out there freak out at any novelty. And such are the things that drive me nuts, too.
Ooh. Flashing lights in the other lane, going the other way. You know what? BFD. Put down your damn cappucino, put down your freaking cell-phone. Pay attenion to what's in front of you, not what's happening over there. Pull your ass out of your head, or vice versa, people.
Patrick is right. There's no reason an accident going the other way should have any effect -- except that, you're being stupid. Uttterly, totally stuid.
And readers of this blog aren't that. Right?
Right...?
Posted by: Jon Bastian at November 27, 2003 02:50 AM
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