Many people, when I tell them about this blog, assume it is specifically about Minnesota drivers. There could be an entire separate blog devoted to how bad Minnesota Assholes make driving here. For me it is so pervasive I don't get as angry about it anymore. If you're bold it actually allows you to do things you would never do in a car in a normal place.
But here is one small thing that happened last night that exemplifies Minnesota drivers. I was at a stop light, first in line, waiting for the light to turn green. I was turning left. There were several cars waiting at the light coming from the opposite direction. So obviously, in any normal place on earth, I'm going to have to wait for a few moments while the cars coming the other direction go through the intersection before I'll be able to turn left.
Instead, when the light turned green, the asshole facing me WAITED FOR ME TO TURN LEFT! This behavior causes relentless delays, because I don't have the right of way. So I can't just go, I have to stare at him a minute to make sure he's really waiting for me. That, of course, is if I had any intention of ever letting one of these assholes compliment themselves on how nice they are. I wasn't about to go in the face of something so moronic, so I just waited for him to figure out he needed to go.
I don't always do it that way. Four-way stops are the worst, because rather than taking turns as you're supposed to, every single asshole has to wait for the others to go first to show that they are the nice one. Stop signs are actually quite funny, because these days I barely pause, because I know the other drivers are in the process of showing each other how polite they are, so at stop signs you almost never have to worry about who's going to go first: the answer is always, me.
One more example of how bad these people are. One time I was at a red light waiting to turn right. The person going THROUGH THE INTERSECTION across in front of me, STOPPED IN THE INTERSECTION, WITH the green light, to let me turn right in front of him. It was the most amazing thing I have ever seen. I have been driving a long long time, NEVER has anyone stopped in the middle of an intersection with a green light to let the person at the red light turn right in front of them. Just amazing.
Wednesday, December 6, 2017
Monday, December 4, 2017
Even doorways are not immune
Here is a quick little example. This happened last weekend. I was at an SA (That's Super America. For some reason normal convenience stores--7-Eleven, Circle K, Wawa, AMPM, Casey's, etc.--don't exist in Minnesota. There are only two chains (plus one weird other one), Super America and Holiday. Super America is just the Minnesota version of 7-Eleven.)
The doors were two glass doors that swing outward, normal. They even had a doorjamb down the middle, so it was actually two separate doors, not a single double door. I had made my purchase and was heading out. As I'm approaching the doors, this guy, in his 30s, wearing one of those hunting camouflage jackets, comes up to the doors from the outside. He grabs the left door (from my point of view) and pulls it open to enter. So I push on the right door and head out that door to the parking lot. This guy, rather than going through his own entirely separate door that has no relationship to my door whatever, STANDS BACK and ostentatiously waits for me to finish going through my door before he continues through his.
This very subtle kind of thing is the reason I'm doing this blog. A stranger might notice little stuff like this, but would just have this vague sense of unease. I want to point out these things so you understand what assholes these people are. This guy was NOT standing aside to let me through first. We had separate doors. What he was doing was standing back to show me that I'm being rude and that he is being inconvenienced by my rudeness but he's the polite one so he's going to stand aside until I come through. It's important to see that he didn't do it because he's polite. He did it to be an asshole. And on top of that, the situation didn't even exist, we had separate doors.
The doors were two glass doors that swing outward, normal. They even had a doorjamb down the middle, so it was actually two separate doors, not a single double door. I had made my purchase and was heading out. As I'm approaching the doors, this guy, in his 30s, wearing one of those hunting camouflage jackets, comes up to the doors from the outside. He grabs the left door (from my point of view) and pulls it open to enter. So I push on the right door and head out that door to the parking lot. This guy, rather than going through his own entirely separate door that has no relationship to my door whatever, STANDS BACK and ostentatiously waits for me to finish going through my door before he continues through his.
This very subtle kind of thing is the reason I'm doing this blog. A stranger might notice little stuff like this, but would just have this vague sense of unease. I want to point out these things so you understand what assholes these people are. This guy was NOT standing aside to let me through first. We had separate doors. What he was doing was standing back to show me that I'm being rude and that he is being inconvenienced by my rudeness but he's the polite one so he's going to stand aside until I come through. It's important to see that he didn't do it because he's polite. He did it to be an asshole. And on top of that, the situation didn't even exist, we had separate doors.
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