You know you’re getting old when, apparently, you drive too slow. And somebody FREAKS over it. That’s the best explanation for what happened to me earlier today.<\/p>\n
I was driving east on I-90, a route I have taken for more than ten years during my daily commute, first to Boeing and then to Microsoft. Usually an uneventful drive. Until today.<\/p>\n
Crossing the I-90 Bridge, a vehicle swerved into the center lane, nearly clipping me. I backed off and avoided the crash. The vehicle then got in front of me and slowed. I backed off some more. The driver next moved over to the passing lane, almost pulling off entirely, his emergency blinkers on. Thinking he thought he’d accidentally clipped me, I moved up to wave him off. No harm, no foul.<\/em><\/p>\n He suddenly accelerated and swerved back into my lane. I moved over to the slow lane. Same game. He continued to do the swerve and sway all the way across the bridge, as if a provocation and a near crash solves anything. Ok, so this isn’t, um, about a near-accident<\/em>. This is deliberately infantile behavior. Been there, done that. Sorry, dude; like all bullies, you ain’t worth acknowledging.<\/p>\n By this time, traffic had started to back up. I called 911. I was not the first; according to the dispatcher, several calls had already come in. Hell, they already had his vehicle ID. What an idiot.<\/p>\n I don’t know what happened next, except that the road rager exited to 405 South and I updated the WSP of that fact. I did not follow; I had a lunch appointment at Eastgate, just off I-90. The last thing I saw was a trooper get off I-90 eastbound and head west, back in the direction of 405. WSP dispatch told me they’d updated their officers.<\/p>\n Good. Hey, dude, we’re not all idiots, you know…<\/p>\n Oh yeah — and the person I was driving over to meet for lunch? Failed to show. Ok. Wow. Did I have the wrong day?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" You know you’re getting old when, apparently, you drive too slow. And somebody FREAKS over it. That’s the best explanation…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,31],"tags":[460],"class_list":["post-4719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sick-humor","category-true-crime","tag-road-rage"],"yoast_head":"\n