Blind Spots

So I guess checking your mirrors and blind spots is no longer a part of everyday driving? Seriously, how does one survive without due care while out and about everyday?

Yesterday, while on my way home for lunch, someone nearly clipped the front end of my new Terrain! Blasphemy I tell you!
I was heading north on a road I drive at least 4 times a day and decided to take the right lane (it's a 4 lane road...) because the vehicles in the left lane were moving a little slow for my taste. It didn't seem to bother anyone and it usually doesn't. If anything, all they do is either speed up to get ahead of me for their turn or they fall back and pull in behind me. Never had anyone actually tried to drive into the side of my vehicle....

....Until yesterday. If I had kept my speed she would've clipped the front end of my vehicle. Of course I slowed down because I don't want damage to my vehicle (who ever really wants that anyway, well I guess the woman who almost did it to me). I then honked my horn and it didn't even look like she was fazed one bit by what happened. I do admit, there has been a time or two where I've done the same thing, but if they honk their horn at me I at least acknowledge the fact that I was in the wrong and give them the 'sorry' wave. Isn't that the common sense thing to do???

One Way Streets

Apparently I've been slacking or there haven't been as many instances where I think WTF?.... I'll try to be more diligent in my posting. I promise!


As I was driving in the big city (Edmonton) yesterday after visiting my neice and sister-in-law, I took a road that was a one-way street. It's clearly marked at all intersections. Well I was driving down the road and a driver was coming from the other direction and swerved in front of me into a driveway. I thought it was kinda funny cuz I was just thinking two seconds earlier that I wanted to switch lanes and when I saw him I was glad I didn't. I did think to myself 'last I knew this was a one-way street, good thing I didn't change lanes since it's not...'
Then I noticed the reaction of the pedestrians on the sidewalk. They all had their hands in the air as though they were flabbergasted at what just happened. I realized that it is in fact a one-way street and that I should've laid on the horn when I saw him!
I just couldn't believe someone would drive that far down a one-way street when there's signs at every corner saying 'wrong way'.

Oldie but a Goodie

This post is for a past 'where was their common sense?'...

One day at lunch I was walking to the office from my car and when I got to the front of the building, I saw this:

Need I really explain this one?

Stop Sign Blindness?

Just today, I was driving around town doing my usual Sunday grocery trip and as I was pulling into the parking lot of Safeway, someone drove through a stop sign and waved at me!?! Coming into that parking lot, there is a 3-way stop. I stopped and noticed a van coming towards the intersection was going a little fast so I of course figured he wasn't going to stop. BINGO! I threw my hands up and gave him a 'what the f***' look and he just looked at me and waved at my like I was kind enough to let him go first through the intersection.

Is a red stop sign not good enough when all the surroundings are white from snow?!?!

Red Lights

Since when did stop lights become stop signs or 'proceed with caution' when they are red?

In the last week or so, I've come across two occassions where this has happened.
One day, a car stopped at the light, then went even though it was still red for them. I don't even think they were phased by it, didn't realize that it was in fact a red light.
Another day, an SUV didn't even stop at a red light. I think they slowed down, saw that no one was coming and just went. Not sure if they noticed that it was a red light, or just didn't care.  Probably the latter.

There is a reason red lights exist. For the safety of drivers. Apparently ppl don't understand that concept...

Snow-one Remember's Where the Lanes Are?

Why is it when it snows, no one can remember where the lanes are?

I swear, everytime it snows more than a dusting, everyone who drives these roads everyday, forgets where the lanes actually are.
There's an intersection in town where there are 3 lanes: one for turning left, one for going straight, and one for turning right. Today, half the ppl seem to have forgotten that there are seperate lanes for going left and straight. Actually, someone forgot yesterday too and mistook the left turning lane for going straight and cut off a few drivers.
Another street in town, there are two lanes in each direction. When it snows, everyone forgets that there are two lanes and start out in one lane and eventually drift off into the second lane about halfway down the street. I typically use the second less travelled lane to pass ppl who are going to slow. In the winter, I usually can't do that since there ends up being only two very wide lanes on the four lane road.


Another thing that bothers me in the winter is business owners who shovel all their snow onto the road. When they shovel it into a driving lane, its a pain in the ass for drivers in smaller vehicles to try and maneuver within that lane. When they shovel it into a parking lane, good luck getting out of it if you even in!

Duel Left-handed Turning

So apparently I don't come across the 'not so common common sense' situations as often as it seemed, but I will continue to add to this when I do come across them. It just might not be every day or week....

This occurance actually happened last week, but I kept forgetting to write it down:
I was driving back to work one lunch hour and at one set of lights in town, two vehicles facing eachother were wanting to both turn to their respective lefts and neither was willing to turn therefore holding up everyone behind them.
I'm not sure what would possess both of them to just sit there and wait out the light before turning. Thankfully one of them finally decided to go just before the light turned yellow so that everyone wasn't sitting there for yet another light because they were too scared to turn...

Impatient Ppl

This actually happened yesterday, but that post was reserved for slow drivers ;)

Do you ever get those drivers that basically cut you off just to turn off half a block later? This was very similar, only more ridiculous.... They pulled out of a parking lot, only to pull back into the other side of the parking lot, practically doing a U-turn, whilst cutting me off because they couldn't wait another 3 seconds for me to get by first.
What's the point in cutting someone off when it was completely unnecessary in the first place?

Slow Drivers...

Example 1:If you're following someone in a posted 60 zone and they are doing 50, do you tailgate? I know I do. I mean, its only the posted limit for a reason: to go that speed!
Last night, we were heading to the city for a family thing and took a back way to avoid construction on a major freeway. we were following this Ford that didn't seem to know where they were going or what the speed limit is. When they pulled into the turning lane, my husband sped passed him and Dylyn and Mark noticed that he inconspicuously flipped us the bird by 'scratching' his nose with the afformentioned bird... Maybe he was simply scratching his nose, but I doubt it. But if you are going to flip someone the bird, don't you want to at least doing the speed limit so you, yourself are following the law?



Example 2:
Today I was leaving Nutter's to go back to work after purchasing my fix of chocolate covered pretzels (I had to live all summer without them) and I ended up following a car, doing no-word-of-a-lie, 15km/h!!! I didn't even know they had cars that idled that slow, lol. It was ssssssooooooo sssssssssllllllllllloooooooooowwwwwwww...............
How do these ppl even still have liscences?

Money Talks

if you were getting paid $400,000/yr and then had to pay your two employees ($40,000/yr each) and were left with $320,000 and say $220,000 after you pay taxes, would you pay your employees more? what if they're the ones doing most of the work? is it fair to say that  making $200/hr for the time you do put into work is fair to your employees who do all your work for you?

makes me really want to be my own boss now...