Elderly drivers.

I understand, being that I live in one of the nation's top retirement communities, that there are some things that I just have to deal with. I choose to live here (FOR THE TIME BEING!) so I should learn to play nice, right? Ak;lsdhg. WELL, I DON'T WANT TO! There should seriously be a law for this shit. There is a certain age and/or state of mind where elderly drivers should be banned from the road.

This has always been an annoyance of mine, but hasn't really seriously bothered me until recently. Just the other day is pretty much what completely set me off on this topic.

Now, I know the very large majority of you readers clearly aren't from my town and would obviously not be familiar with our streets, but for my sake I am going to write this as specifically as possible. Just bear with me, this is mainly for my own personal venting reasons anyway.

As I was driving down 9th St. on my way home from the office on my lunch, I slowed to turn onto Kingwood. At this particular intersection, it is only a 2 way stop (on Kingwood), 9th St. doesn't have any stops until the main light on Hwy 101 because this is usually the main route the ambulances take when leaving the hospital. As I slowed to turn left on Kingwood, I was unable to complete my turn because there were 2 oncoming cars blocking me, so naturally I slowed to a stop to wait for them. As I was waiting, there were at least a couple cars waiting at the stop signs on Kingwood. The guy waiting on my right went ahead and took his right turn in front of me, which was fine, because I was stopped waiting to turn and he was clear to go. As soon as the 2 cars blocking my turn passed, I started to turn only to be completely cut off by the asshole on my left who was stopped waiting to take a left onto 9th. I think the topic of this post makes the age of the asshole on my right totally clear. Luckily, my reflexes are pretty well excersized having to share the roads in this town daily with these idiots, so I slammed my brakes to a stop in plenty of time but that didn't stop my heart from wanting to hammer out of my chest!

Hello?! What does "Right of Way" mean to these people? Maybe I do have a bit of an advantage being that I am young enough to remember what I learned while reading the Driver's Manual in order to pass my Driving Test but come, the fuck, on. Isn't all that common sense anyway?

Unfortunately, I was driving Eric's car which I'm not technically covered insurance wise on quite yet, and again, it was HIS car and I know how he is about his car. In any another situation (as in me being completely covered on the car and having it not be Eric's) I would have loved to KEEP GOING and rammed right into his car. Call me a crazy bitch, but it would have been totally satisfying to come flying out of my car screaming "WHAT THE HELL DO YOU THINK YOU'RE DOING?! Do you NOT know how to fucking drive?" while having their insurance pay for all the damages to my car.

I wasn't even used to the horn on Eric's car! I COULDN'T EVEN LAY ON IT! How disappointing. (He has the type of horn that you have to push one of the two specific buttons off to the side rather than just push generally on the middle.)

The icing on the cake is the look his wife in the passenger seat gave me as I slammed on my brakes and proceeded to yell obscenities through my windshield. The look of, "What the fuck do YOU think you're doing?!" obviously thinking they did nothing wrong. Are you kidding me!?

Another thing that peaks my annoyance while driving in this town is the fact of what a 40MPH speed limit means to these people. 40 miles a fucking hour! Not 30, or God forbid, even 25. Seriously? 25MPH in a 40?! And oh, that seems a bit too fast for you still. No, really? Then why the hell are you swerving all over the damn road like a fucking drunk!?

1. If you can't see over the steering wheel of your ginormous Town Car, maybe you shouldn't be driving?!
2. Seriously. Get the damn little dogs off your lap. It's really not funny anymore.

Oh, and I have to mentioned that on top of this being one of the nation's top retirement communities, we're also a booming tourist town as well. Oh yeah, that's right. We're talking not only are these people driving normal vehicles (if you'd consider a boat of a Town Car a normal vehicle), they're driving HUGE ASS RVS, AS WELL! And don't even get me started on that shit...

Ugh, I really need to get out of this town.