Seattle drivers
Ok, so right now I reside in the Seattle area. There is a huge lack of driving skill up here. I think it is because people are too nice. Everyone wants everyone else to go first. On many occations I have pulled up to a stoplight to make a left hand turn (no arrow) the light is green and I wait for all the cars to go and to turn right. Well, the person making a right turn stops and waves me to go, well I am not expecting this because the law gives them the right of way. So of course I hesitate and start to go, at the same time they seem to sense my hesitation and start to go to. So I stop, now sitting across a lane of traffic, just waiting to be sideswiped, while this person stops and waves me through again. This time I gun it, without hesitation. By this time, if the basic rule of who has the right of way would have been followed, we both would be 2 miles away from this location. Instead we are playing some game in the middle of an intersection.
The four way stop is by far the worst though. I have pulled up to a four way stop, where two people are continually waving each other to go. They both start to go at the same time, but then stop, then both wave the other person to go. It makes me wonder how long they have been at this intersection. Most of the time, being the Los Angeles driver that I am, I end up going first, most likely infuriating both drivers.
Then there is merging onto the freeway. I was always taught that the best way to merge onto the free was to speed up to the flow of traffic, maintain that speed while merging into the traffic. In Seattle, they seem to be taught to attempt to merge into traffic at an extremely slow speed. I have seen people stopped at the side of the freeway, waiting for their chance to merge into the 60 mile per hour traffic. Speaking of which, 60 mph on the freeway is a fucking joke. Worst of all, people actually follow this speed limit. Of course, it is for a valid reason, there are a million cops just waiting to give tickets hiding in the trees and bushes. They even have unmarked police cars. The entire area surrounding Seattle is one giant speed trap.
Last annoyance about the drivers in Seattle. It rains here, quite often. You would think that people would know how to drive in the rain. They don’t. The painfully slow 60 mph speed limit seems to be reduced to a painful 40 mph. I understand in Los Angeles, that when it rains it, people drive slow because well, it never rains in LA. But in Seattle?
Luckily, I am moving back to the lovey LA. I can not wait for the aggressive drivers, driving 80 mph in a 65 zone without getting a ticket. I love the every man for himself attitude when it comes to driving in LA. It just seems to work better and and be more efficient. Everyone has a place to go and they want to be there now.
