This morning I am driving the boys to school when I get behind this car at a stop sign at a T in the road. The car just sits there, no cars coming either direction yet she is not going. Then I notice her car door open up so I am thinking "maybe she dropped something and is getting it" so I go around her and start to take my left turn I wanted to take. The problem, though, was not that she dropped something, but that she could not see out her driver's side window because she had not cleared it, in fact she had only cleared the area of her windshield right in front of her (like the photo here from shutterstock, thank you) so she could drive. It rained yesterday and then got down to somewhere around 20° overnight so I am sure her window was also frozen shut so she couldn't roll it down. This kind of incompetent, inconsiderate laziness just frosts me. Really, it took me all of maybe three minutes to clean off all of the windows, including the windshield, almost completely so I could have full vision all around. This was not the only car I saw like this, a couple others I saw just cleared the windshield and the back window enough to see. It still amazes me these people are willing to risk their car, and pedestrians well being all in the name of saving a few minutes, or maybe "it's just too cold".
So my note for the day "PLEASE CLEAR OFF YOUR CAR!"
So tell me, how long do you take to clear your car?
2 comments:
Not me. I never get the urge to run these people off the road and pummel them with my own scraper. Never.
Here in the Great White North, we call them igloos, and few things burn me more than seeing them on the road. It wouldn't bother me if they'd self-regulate themselves by ending up wrapped around a tree. The problem is they more often than not take careful folks like us along for the ride.
At the core is a general attitude within society that fails to respect the tremendous responsibility associated with the privilege of driving a vehicle. People think it's a basic right, and that once they've been granted it, they can do as they please with barely a second thought.
That really ticks me off.
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