So we had a big storm yesterday. Torrential rain, highs winds and a little hail thrown in for good measure. Oh, and a Tornado warning just to make it fun.
Now a little bad weather is something we all have to put up with, the real problem is that it throws a particular segment of the population into the limelight. Who is this group you ask ? They are the "I shouldn't be allowed to be in control of a pair of shoes - let alone a motor vehicle" crowd.
I have to ask myself how these people get through a driving test in the first place. Do we only test new drivers on nice sunny days with no other traffic on the road and some form of the bumpers they use for kids 5-pin bowling attached to the sidewalk ?
And there isn't a particular sub-section of humanity that this is peculiar to. Bad driving is blind to race, colour, creed, sex and hair colour. It must be genetic. There must be a flaw in the basic makeup of your typical bad driver. An apparently sane and intelligent person will suddenly turn into a bumbling idiot when confronted with inclement weather of any kind. Yet we continue to allow anyone who has the money to go out and buy a mode of transportation that is far beyond his or her capabilities to control on anything but a bright sunny day. Maybe we need to revamp our testing system. Maybe we need to up the legal driving age to above the age of consent. Maybe we just need to let them all kill themselves and hope they don't take too many of us with them. Or maybe we all just need to take the bus.
But then…………
what the hell do I know
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