Friday, September 08, 2006

I drove the new car this morning and almost from the start things went nuts.

First, I was on Burke Road headed toward Burke Lake Road. Burke Rd is a short two lane road that widens at the light at Burke Lake Rd (a T intersection) to accommodate the left and right turners. I noticed a car zooming up behind me as I got closer to the light and before I knew it she was moving to come around my left. To avoid an accident, I hit the brakes, moved to the right, and laid on the horn. Oblivious, the chick continued on as if nothing was wrong, talking on her cell phone, and slammed to a stop at the red light. Just mere seconds later, I pulled to a stop behind her. I guess she was in a hurry.

Second, I was on the Beltway in the middle right lane (of a 4 lane interstate) cruising at about 65 mph. I decided to move to the far right lane to get out of the way of faster traffic when I noticed a car in my left side mirror move into the middle right lane as I started to move to my right. I had barely gotten fully over when he hit the gas and zoomed by, leaving barely inches between our cars on his way. He then had to slam brakes when he came up on a bunch of cars in all lanes that weren’t traveling at his rate of speed.

Third, I was almost hit by a bumble bee yellow mustang in the Merge of Madness™ because he didn’t yield as he should have. That was followed by being cut off by a state trooper in the second half of said Merge™.

Is it a full moon tonight or something?

[LATER]: I couldn’t find my fine artwork of the MoM™s from a few years ago - they were on the server with my old host and I guess I never downloaded them back to keep. So they’re lost. Instead, I employed Google Maps to find the intersection in question - link here - and scanned the area, added notes, and uploaded that. They’re not the clearest, but you get the idea.

Merge of Madness™
Merge of Madness™, part two