Driving PSA

This morning I was going to turn left when I got the green arrow on Miller Parkway which is a busy intersection.  I was about halfway into the intersection when a car from the opposite direction decided to go and cut in front of me and passed. I thought have I lost my mind?  Did I not get the direction right?  I saw the green jeep behind me in the intersection as well so they had the same idea that I did. I don't think I was wrong. I think someone blew through a red light.

I don't mind driving and I actually like to get out on the freeway and listen to a podcast or music or my latest Audible book.  I really dread if I ever have to go to our corporate headquarters.  I'm not totally there on feeling ok about driving on the freeway some days.  I took mostly city streets on the way home. I got home quick enough and I get to see how pretty our city can be going through some of the neighborhoods.

For people who think it's funny to do as they please as it comes to driving?  You screw other people up emotionally and mentally with your reckless driving.  You make people not want to leave the house or go too far because they don't want to deal with people who think it's funny to drive however the hell you want to drive.  

You can wreck someone financially.  I probably needed to go to credit card counseling a long time ago but once my premium doubled, I thought I was going to have to file bankruptcy.  Know what that means reckless driver?  I can't rent a decent apartment even though my credit score isn't the greatest but that means it could have been over for me.  I had to raise my deductible to lower my premium.  I was fortunate enough to pay my portion because I had my deductible at $250 not $1000.  If someone hits me again?  I'm done.  I can't afford to have my car fixed and nobody will insure me after that.  All because someone can't pay attention or just doesn't want to pay attention.

Maybe it's from what I'm dealing with every day where I see how it affects people that angers me when I see that type of driving.  I have stopped at a red light more than once and had someone behind blow around me and speed through the red light.  RED LIGHT! 

I was lucky that the car had damage but I didn't have damage.  I got hit from behind 8 years ago or almost and I knew the guy wasn't paying attention because he was panicked and begging me not to call the cops.  I was in shock and I didn't know what to do.  The car was fine but thanks to him, I have neck trouble some days.  I had to do a few physical therapy sessions.  

Other people have had it twenty times worse than me!  I'm horrified when I find this stuff out everyday and yet people think their car is just a toy.

I could totally do the scared straight talks for any parents looking to straighten up their teens on driving.

I probably have arthritis in my right ankle from all the defensive stopping I've had to do over the years, namely the last few.

What's wrong with people and their driving?  

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