License To Drive
Frankly, I’m beginning to believe that it should be more difficult than it is to get a driver’s license. Aside from the usual comments about people in their nineties, with their tortise-like reflexes and their quad-focal glasses, I’d like to suggest that we add emotional capacity for maturity to the criteria.
Today, as I was driving home from the office (just stopped by to take care of a few loose ends), I was passed by two idiots who had decided to play an odd kind of vehicle leap-frog. With horns blaring they proceeded to take turns racing past one-another and then cutting the other off, only to quickly slam on their brakes. Based on my experience, this is a somewhat common, but usually short lived practice. In this case, however, the two drivers i in question thought it best to continue for a good 20+ blocks, replete with hand gestures, horn honking, haphazard maneuvers around other vehicles and hanging out of windows over that distance.
When they finally came to an intersection where the light wasn’t green, the passenger in one of the cars, a red Mitsubishi Eclipse, got out his vehicle and began yelling and strutting around as if he wanted to fight. At this point, I dialed 911 expecting a fight to errupt, but hung up immediately as the driver of the other car, a black Audi A4, drove away in pursuit of the red Eclipse. However, this numbskull continued yelling and strutting as he stood in the middle of the turn lane, now in front of my car. As I made the turn, my cell phone rang; it was the 911 call center. I explained why I had originally called and detailed everything above. I’m sure nothing came of it as I haven’t heard back from them.
All of this is to say that it should be harder to get a driver’s license. The drivers in this case were all well over 18 and one of them was probably in his early fifties, well-dressed and driving a new, moderately priced but nice, $32,000 Audi. He should’ve known better. The woman driving the Eclipse should’ve known better. They flagrantly endangered other drivers as well as pedestrians in order to participate in this overblown, irresponsible pissing match.
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