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Wednesday, March 17, 2010

Worst drivers in the world?

So was just going to tweet this, but I couldn't adequately condense all my frustration (and fear of dying) into just 140 characters.

So I've lived a lot of places with bad drivers including Indiana road hogs, aggressive Texas drivers, insane LA traffic and even Columbia, MO where everyone I know has had some kind of car accident within 6 months of being there. And then I moved to St Louis and I have never seen people do the crazy no-brain stuff they do on the road here.


Used to, my go-to example story of bad St Louis drivers:

One day on a major thoroughfare, at a stoplight I watched as a person in the right-hand turn lane with their right turn signal on, turned LEFT across seven lanes of traffic.

That was my example of bad driving, at least until today.


So driving home from work, was nearly home and I was turning into the parking area for the condo. I have to turn left so had my left turn-signal on and I was stopped because there were cars coming the other way. The guy behind me decided waiting for 5 seconds was too long and decided to (illegally) pass me on the left directly into oncoming traffic. Much honking of horns and some swerving later, there was luckily no accident and when the road was clear of other cars I made my left turn.


But seriously, who in their right mind passes someone who is trying to turn left on the left side directly into oncoming traffic?


St Louis drivers that's who.


"Face it, girls, I'm older and I have more insurance." (Fried Green Tomatoes)

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