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Thursday, August 26, 2010
Punishment for Stupidity
My husband has often told me that I like to punish people for their own stupidity, and you know what...he is SO right! But that brings up the question of why people think they should be rewarded for their stupidity? Let's take driving for example. For the last week or so on the road I take to work there has been one lane closed due to road work. People know it is closed yet, they still think that they can stay in that lane until the last possible second and then expect people to let them in. Really? Today that lane was still closed, but there is now a longer stretch of that lane closed. In order to properly warn people, the nice construction workers posted signs saying "Right Lane Closed Ahead" as well as signs with the merge symbol on them at least two intersections back before the actual lane closure. That's right, I said at least TWO INTERSECTIONS BEFORE the actual lane closure. Well apparently the stupid people who drive on that road think that the signs do not apply to them and that they should go ahead and just stay in the lane up until the last possible second. At the intersection where the lane closure starts, the road construction people have placed one of those giant signs with the blinking arrows that tell you to move over ya idiot (I am sorry, but there is no possible way to miss a sign that has giant blinking arrows staring you in the face). Yet at least 5 cars stayed in the lane that is closed and went ahead and drove through the intersection, blocking it off because they are now about to collide head on with said blinking arrow sign, and the rest of the idiots in front of them. I being the person who loves to punish people for their own stupidity then speed up so that they cannot get in front of my car. My feeling is if you are too STUPID to obey the signs then you can just wait until either it is clear or someone who feels like rewarding and idiot who just knew they could get there faster than everyone else lets them in. Already annoyed with the idiocy on the road I get to work and find out that one of my co workers is one of those people who waits until the last possible second and expects someone to reward him for his idiocy and let him in. He then proceeds to tell me how he hates people like me who speed up and won't let idiots like him merge in front of them. So I obeyed the signs and got in the open lane way before it became an issue, yet I am supposed to reward the jerks who sped by me thinking they would get there faster only to have to stop and cut someone off because they ignored the lane closure signs?! How the freak does that work?! How are they entitled to being rewarded for being jerks who felt they were just too important to obey the signs and get in the open lane?? Yes the open lane is slower, and yes it sucks. But guess what...it's the jerks who speed by and cut someone off to merge at the last second that make it slow! Get over yourself and read the damn signs! If it says your lane is closed, then get the hell over into one that is NOT closed!! How frickin hard is that???!!! Sounds pretty simple and reasonable to me! But then I am not a last second merging idiot......
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