Wednesday, August 06, 2003

Bryan had a bad morning in traffic. I feel your pain, Bryan. And I agree with you 100% on the following:

I have an extremely low threshold of tolerance for those folks who think they’re part of the solution by creating a third lane of blocked traffic over in the right shoulder of the highway. I believe anyone who does that should be ticketed, and anyone who lets them merge back into the normal traffic lane should have their licenses suspended as well. I’m convinced that people who partake in right-shoulder lane creation are amongst some of the most self-absorbed people in God’s creation. They must be thinking, “waiting in line might be good enough for all of you, but I am the assistant ice-supervisor’s assistant to the dockloader’s assistant. And clearly, if I don’t break every law of traffic safety and common courtesy to get to my clipboard in the next 10 minutes, the earth will suddenly stop rotating on its axis.” People—this is a shoulder that should be used only for emergencies.  And when the day arrives that the Georgia Dept. of Transportation begins posting signs that read Right shoulder/lane—Obnoxious Imbeciles Only!, I’ll apologize. Until then, may your road of travel be filled with Acme Nail & Screw Truck road spills.