Driving

Learning to drive takes an immense amount of concentration. On the interstate, and on other roads not only do you have to watch where you are going but you also have to pay attention to all the other drivers on the road too. Driving around large trucks and semi's particularly bothers me, it feels like I am crowded out of space. They roar up next to you while are driving or even better, two come up beside you and sandwich you in between them so you can't move either to the left or the right and you feel trapped. Today, a woman with a little red car was coming up the interstate behind me and my Mom as we were driving to my work. The lady in the red car was in a real hurry. She was moving fast and was zipping in and out of the lines of traffic. I had signaled to turn right to move over into the right hand lane and she was right behind us. She got so close I thought she was going to hit the back bumper of our car. There wasn't any place that we could go to get out and away from her. I signaled to turn left onto Collins road and she did too. She moved next to us in the right hand lane to also turn left. There is a spot coming from the interstate to the Collins road exit where the markings on the road can go into one lane to return back to the interstate or you can choose to go into the left hand lane on Collins road and keep going straight. I turned onto that lane and the lady with the red car was also turning onto that lane too. She laid on her horn and made some obscene gestures and drove around us in a real huff. I felt that I had just as much as a right as she had and that I didn't do anything wrong by turning into that lane; the lines are dotted at that spot, not solid. Sometime I don't understand why people are in such a rush to get places, if they start out a little earlier and find time to be considerate then things would go a little smoother on the roads. Road rage! People all over the road are displaying it all the time and it isn't very nice and it really makes your day start out wrong when it happens to you going to work first thing in the morning.