...you're forced to putt along behind a guy doing 10 under the speed limit, and when you finally get a chance to pass, he decides it's time to speed up? What's your "Why is it...?"
Why is it that whichever checkout line I pick at the store, it will be the one where they will need a price check, someone will have no idea how to use the card scanner, someone will have two separate piles of groceries (food stamp and non food stamp), and then the cashier will have to change the register tape? However, if I switch lines, the one I leave will suddenly become a model of efficiency, while all the previous problems will begin to plague the new line.
I think people had the New Years resolution to drive below the speed limit. I haven't seen so many people driving 10+ under the speed limit in my life. Why is it I picked a quiet neighborhood to move back into that we get a new neighbor with cats that like to run all over my vehicles, and a German Shepard that no stops barks day and night.
...that while entering the parking lot the customers ambling to their cars seem oblivious to my vehicle. After I park and am walking towards the store, those same people I was so kind as to not run over are now squealing tires with reckless abandon, tuning radio while FaceBooking, and have developed selective blind spots in their vision that center on me.
...that when you're traveling down the Interstate, no one ahead of you for miles, no one behind you for miles, and you catch up to two 18 wheelers going at least 10 MPH slower than you, and given 10 seconds you'll be past them both, the one behind decides it's a great time to go 1 MPH faster and "pass" the other one? For at least 10 miles. Resulting in a 20 car lineup behind you waiting to get past said 18 wheelers. You obviously didn't feel the need to pass during the 5 minutes it took me to catch up, contently drafting behind the leader. You obviously aren't in that great of a hurry taking 10 miles to pass. I'm a patient person, driving the speed limit, but you endanger me and others with the pileup catching those less than patient drivers who are willing to squeeze a 120 inch vehicle into a 121 inch space. It has to be intentionally deliberate (yes, I know that redundantly said the same thing...it was deliberately intentional that way). No other reasoning makes sense. Unless you want to bring "questioning your intellectual capabilities" into question - which I do not want to do. I don't even know you, and thus can't make a qualified estimation of your IQ. But I have a very easy time picking which bodily orifice to compare you to....
The size zero "soccer moms" that are all into the environment and their spin or yoga class who then drive their massive SUV around and around the gym parking lot so as to get the closest possible space?
A friend told me, on the subject of driving, "The fastest lane is the lane you're in". Could that be true for supermarket lines????
Usually when they do that, there's a speed trap ahead that you may be unaware of. Consider it their way of thumbing their nose at law enforcement.
also @swarden43 Driving in the left lane, without imminently passing slower right lane traffic, is a primary traffic offense in Colorado. Should be everywhere.
Why is it? ....that people can't figure out that 17:35 is not the best time to learn how to use the self checkouts at the grocery?
In the grocery industry....it's largely Union CBAs and monthly hour budgets versus revenue. Sorry for the real answer.
At the gas pumps - waiting for the person at the pump to get the freaking heck out of their car and start pumping. Instead the person, who saw you pull in behind, is now still sitting in the driver's seat involved with their cell phone.
If I were speeding, I'd consider that as at least an act of courtesy. But, I don't. I do, however, after I gather my thoughts, console myself that perhaps the good Lord is using it for my benefit....either keeping me from an incident, or teaching me patience. You'll get a ticket here in Texas for it, too
..... In a world where young girls climb muddy hills with a clay water jug on their shoulders for suspect drinking and cooking water, people run across streets dodging sniper fire for a sack of rice and cooking oil, a honors student with a rare disease faces deportation after missing reenrollment to her home country lacking the expertise to save her life and our veterans comprise 40 percent of the homeless and 30 percent prison populations- we worry about a lot of crap.
