Anyone who’s been in a car when I am driving will attest that I can be rather verbal - it’s not so much road rage, just verbally deriding the other drivers, (especially when they have out of province plates). Of course, it is easy to critique everyone else’s driving from within the safety of my own car.
Before starting in my IT career, I worked about 14 years for courier and trucking and for about 9 of those years, I drove delivery. No accidents or incidents and even received a safe driver award, so…I kind of consider myself to at least be a capable driver.
The Ottawa River Parkway is a 4-lane scenic parkway along the Ottawa River and is my preferred route to get downtown. It has a posted speed limit of 60 km/h but we all seem to do 70 k!
This particular morning, some dumbass came flying through traffic, cutting lanes and generally being an ass and when he got to me, laid on the horns, giving me the “get the #$%^ out of the way you slow #$%^”!
Huh! WTF!
I was already speeding along, 10 k over the limit and this dumbass gives me that! The ensuing verbal barrage was a great distraction from the building downtown traffic!
I was hoping dude would be caught up in the road work congestion so I could give the “F U” horn on the way past but it was not to be! Nor was my driving excitement done just yet either! Coming off the Portage Bridge from Gastineau, the lanes kind of merge together but during rush hour, traffic is pretty crazy here. Usually, the drivers from Quebec run the lights to get through the intersection and typically get caught out in it and then everyone gets backed up.
I thought I was through unscathed when an ignorant Quebecois cabby decides he moving over!
WTF!
He was actually side by side with me, not ahead of me but still the dumbass just turned the wheels and moved over, no lights, no passengers, no rush, just a cut and run!
He did get the “F U” horn!
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