I just had a fantastic driving experience. It's on par with having some idiot pass you doing thirty miles over the speed limit and wishing he'd get pulled over, only to see him off the side of the road two miles later in front of a cop car.
My house is in the hills south of Eugene and it's about two miles all downhill from here to the flat. It usually rains all winter and if it ever actually snows, it melts the same day.
Recently the snow has been piling up and it's way colder than usual. The steep hills (and my steep driveway) have made trips to and from the house kinda scary. More than once we've had to park lower down the streets 'cause we couldn't make it up the last few hundred yards to the house.
So this morning it was icier and the roads were worse than they've been in the last week. There's one big hill lower down on a more major road that seems to be eating cars at a rapid pace. They're turning the buses around 'cause they're too scared to drive down it.
I made it down OK the first time on my way to school, and then found out classes were cancelled. So I took a roundabout route home so I could take my wife to work.
While driving her to work, I was nearing the nasty hill again and was a little more nervous due to an increase in traffic. I wasn't so worried about the road as I was about other idiots driving on the road.
There was a guy in a Honda Accord that was way, way too close to my back bumper for these kinds of conditions, so I pulled over and he drove past. I pulled right back in behind him at a safe distance and watched as he started tailgating the truck in front of him.
He didn't seem at all concered about keeping his speed down, and I commented on what a douchebag he was to my wife.
"Honey," I said. "That man is a douchebag."
And no more than five seconds later he promptly smashed into the truck in front of him. Which would of course, have been me if I hadn't had the foresight to let him get by.
I felt even better about the fact that it seems there was little damage to the truck, but the guy's Accord was fucked up.
Score one for Gabe.
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100 pounds of shit in a 25 pound sack.