Parked in the Rear View Mirror
On my way home from work today, I came across yet another parked driver or two. While traveling on a single lane highway, I had just passed an entrance lane, where a truck was trying to get on. He was speeding up, since there was plenty of space after me, but before the long line of cars following. Just as this was happening, the car behind me already on the road sped up, as if to block the truck trying to merge. They were both determined to beat the other one out. The scary part was that I was watching this whole thing through my rear view mirror, and having two vehicles coming at me at a high rate of speed. I had wished I could speed up to get away from them, but there was also a car in front of me.
Thankfully, there were no accidents, but what were they thinking? Especially the person behind me, speeding up to prevent someone else from getting in front of him - parked, parked, parked!
January 17th, 2008 at 2:59 pm
I wish these cars were literally parked…far away from me! Sometimes I wonder if there is some prize for the car that speeds past me to get to the stoplight five seconds before I do. Why else would they drive like that?