Jami Must Need a New Calendar . . .

Because mine didn't mention that today is Drive Like a Jackass Day. Which, clearly it was, and I went out driving all unprepared for being surrounded by total jerks. Grrrr! And yes, I know we all have our bad moments, but really: 1. During the rainstorm, on a steep hill that was muddy with construction stuff and those metal plates over parts of the road, I'm stopped at a red light. The driver of this HUGE truck apparently decides this is the perfect situation to attempt to drive directly up to the back of my car. I doubt you could have gotten a dollar bill between our cars. The car ahead of me rolls up a bit and I try to move forward, too. My wheels spin, I can feel the car slide back a teensy before I move up maybe one car length, and at that point the truck creeps up into my tailpipe again. He proceeds to follow me for several more blocks like that, to the point where I almost threw on the emergency break at one light so I could get out and ask him, just out of curiosity, why he feels the need to try to drive into my trunk. Is he trying to mate our cars? Drafting? 2. I saw two different people make left turns from a right lane, two different places/times. 3. At a light where the car ahead of me, me and the one behind me were all going to make a right, there is an ambulance coming from the direction we're going to. The people in the opposite side are moving into what would be our lane to allow it through just as our light turns green. Car Ahead and I slowly pull out into the right lane and Car Behind lays on the horn, pulls our around us into the lane the people are moving into and screeches to a halt inches from the people who pulled over. The ambulance goes by and Car Behind honks (at the ambulance? the other drivers?) again. I can see three kids in his car, who almost got to experience a crash. 4. Even bicyclists were in on it as I followed two of them who apparently had decided that because they were on their bicycles, basic rules of traffic don't apply to them. I also saw a wide selection of people ignoring stop signs, speeding like crazy and one woman who apparently thought that rainy conditions mean all speed limits are halved. The next time we have one of these days, can someone let me know so I can plan to stay at home, on the second floor? Because it's only a matter of time until one of these idiots ends up in my dining room.