Small example of driving

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.