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And my regrets won’t soak the ground over Mr or Mrs Imaginary dead person’s grave enough to have their imaginary body sprout back up into life.
One of the things you do as a driver is drive with caution.. I do this most of the time enough to irritate other drivers into doing similar things like I just did.. like yesterday when I was tailed by a police cruiser for a while. He there from the stat until he passes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0G8NimaLAM
In my mind he was too close. He was on one side and then dropped back in behind me, then stayed there a bit too long and pulled up into my blind spot and stayed there.
While I’m below the speed limit and it is 3AM.. I mean it is purposeful observation. But I’d do it to other drivers.. because it is the speed limit. You own your lane regardless of what other people are doing. Sure I’d stopped a sec to wipe the lens and left the screen on but so what?
Problem is when you have a jerkass at a light not moving and the light is green.. you have options, you can slow down and see if he’ll register you coming up behind him and realise the light has changed. At 3AM chances are he just missed the light change BECAUSE he sees you coming up.
I’m just not in the mood for an idiot though, I go around him.
Since it is 3AM.. it is unlikely that there’s still someone crossing and that’s why he’s just sitting there like a moron. But if there had been.. that person would be dead. I’ve wondered why if as a cautious driver the taxi that was sitting at the light, or any motorist in that position would put their hazards on to slow people driving around otherwise at full speed on green.. or not. People probably wouldn’t think twice about it.
In this case it might have helped save this imaginary person I just murdered and my nerves.. but it only occurred to me I killed him after I got around the Taxi idiot and he sped up as people in this town do, to get by me. He wasn’t so gauche as to do the whole pull up beside me and glare but I mean.. I’m not feeling it either way.. There will come a day where I’ll come the whole way out the car and allow my road rage to blossom. Not today though.