I tried unsuccessfully to delude myself into thinking the
reason of a recent increase in a particular type of road hazard was in flux of
visitors from the British Isles. But truthfully
what sane Brit would visit the broiling climes of North Texas in August? No; it is far more plausible that my fellow
drivers need to either respect each other more, or re-enroll in a Driver’s Ed
course.
For some reason I keep encountering more and more oncoming
vehicles in my lane ….. my right ….. their left. Given the rarity of places where one drives a
motor vehicle on the left side of the road, I see no excuse for this. If the person behind the wheel was distracted
by their phone, an unruly child, or a sudden medical emergency, I still would
not appreciate them endangering me, but at least I would understand what was
happening. But I watch to see how best
to avoid them, the drivers appear to be looking right at me.
There have always been those incapable of using only one
lane to make right turns, those who drive down the middle of roads with no lane
markers, and those who confuse their right and left. I happen to be ambidextrous at almost everything
except the use of pens and pencils, but I have no trouble to keeping the side
of the road that U. S. traffic laws dictate.
So I have no tolerance for those who threaten to collide with we who
obey the law.
I would think it was just
a spate of bad luck for me, but there has also been a recent increase of
head-on collisions on the local highways caused by people entering highways via
the exit ramps in order to drive on the wrong side of the thoroughfares. In most cases these drivers have later proven
to be impeded by alcohol consumption.
Does this mean all
these soccer moms and bubbas in white pickup trucks are drunk in the middle of
the day, as the run errands between home and wally-world? If so, that is even scarier than my daily
encounters with one or two of them.
