Faux Pax Friday

Back in the day, you could always count on Friday being a nice, easy traffic day. Apparently, that is no longer the case. Got on the road a bit earlier this morning, sans camera since I figured it would be an easy shot into the city. Missed out on two women putting on makeup and one newspaper spread wide from driver's side to passenger's side reader.

You think I'd learn.

Dicktionary

asshat (noun) - slicing across several lanes of traffic and cutting in front of other cars, only to read a book and leave large gaps of space between you and the car ahead of you. Compounding the issue by constantly turning around to talk to your child, secured in a car seat in the back.

The Weekend Paper

2 Newspapers
1 Magazine

1 near miss, almost rear-ended by one of the guys reading a paper.

He was driving a RED CROSS VEHICLE.

Nice.

Big Brother Is Watching

From my roving reporter:

"Most people read the manual for their car at home. This guy is reading it while driving. Guess he did not get to the part that says DO NOT READ THIS WHILE DRIVING. Even a GPS will tell you not to program while driving."

The Four Horsemen

And now, for today's winners of the
"I'm an AssHat"
competition:

Here's the guy who used the gas station as an additional lane...









This lovely gentleman was reading, but finally devoted himself to the matter at hand.








The fellow who was going so slowly that he allowed 3 cars to get in front of him in a 1 block span.

But the grand prize goes to The North Star Academy Van (don't quote me on that, I had only 1 cup of coffee so I can't quite recall the name), which pulled onto the West Side Highway at 125th street:


...notice the commercial plates...

Must See TV

This morning's commute was fairly low-key. Lots of traffic (ah, gotta love the U.N.), but less rampant stupidity than usual. In typical Volvo fashion, we had one driver create her own lane:

And of course, when better to catch up on NBC's new night-time TV line up than while driving to work?

...however, today's zipper status was code green, and the white line was breached only by a motorcyclist (who needs to learn to pick up his feet!).

~Stay tuned for last weekend's supplementary post~

Spreadsheets and Coffee

I apologize in advance - I can guarantee that I will mention the following pet peeve multiple times in the future. Just who in the world spread the gospel that reading while driving is OK??