Rant Time

I know, it's been awhile. I've been saving this one up. Fine tuning it if you will. Now as some of you may not know, I'm a transplant from the San Francisco Bay Area to the Nashville Area in Tennessee. Reasons for moving here in another entry.....we are focusing on a Rant right now. I lived in the Bay Area for 40 years; for two of those I commuted across the Bay Bridge. Talk about painful. Being from a Freeway culture, I can appreciate people who know how to drive their cars correctly. Now that I live in Nashville, not a Freeway culture by any sense of the word, I am going insane!!!! People in this town would not last 5 minutes on a SF freeway if their lives depended on it. First off, too many trucks. Remember several years ago when Reagan deregulated the trucking industry? The result of that is any Moron with a pulse is driving a Semi now. These "knights of the roadway" have become the Assholes of the roadway. They tailgate you, blow past you barely making the lane change in front of you. The pass each other....dangerous is a nice word. Then we have the idiots who cannot who can't merge onto the Interstate!!!! They get in the merge lane from the on ramp. Usually you would speed up so you can integrate into traffic....not out here!!! They get on the interstate, you try and back off a bit to let them in....they keep tooling along at 35!!!!! The speed limit is 70......these folks ain't getting there for awhile......then when you go to pass them because they are driving like Grandmas...they speed up!!!!! Then traffic gets a bit crowded....I weave around the lanes of traffic only to find a GAP THE SIZE OF CALIFORNIA between the lead car and the back of the pack ahead of us. People are content to sit there going 50 in a 70 MPH zone with a gap big enough to land the space shuttle in ahead of them!!!!!! Praise the Lord and pass the ammo!!!!