I promise that I will make a small effort in writing down rants, in hopes that someone can clarify my misunderstandings of our society.

Now on to the show.

In Lexington, people are stupid. I know people are stupid all over, but it seems that in the mornings, weekdays mostly, something within the city attracts stupid people like a giant CERN magnet. Following the highways like ball bearings in grooves, they flow inward, toward the heart of the city. This poses some problems due to the layout of the city, but overall not a major problem….. Until you start to factor in that their stupid.

I drive a van. I large van. Easily viewable from any angle, and from space. Why is it that people do not see the van, when they change lanes?  I can spot the van in a Walmart Supercenter parking lot, in whiteout conditions.  Do they think their smart car is smart enough not to be crushed like a Coors Light can, and recycled?

All is well, but the thing that has been really killing me is that there is a particular intersection, off ramp of I-75 South onto Winchester Rd inbound, where people continually amaze me with their stupidity.

I freqent this intercestion more than I prefer, but I nearly alway need to turn right, and at the first light, right again.  This should be a very easy task at any time of the day, as it has its own lane. Actually there are two right turn lanes here. The “middle” lane, which is a right turn lane, has to wait for the light to turn green, or they can turn “right on red” if the entering lane is clear.  This I have no issue with at all.  The problem is that the right lane, which is also “right on red” HAS ITS OWN LANE.  You can very quickly pull up to the stop light, check to make sure no one is doing something stupid, or any pedestrians are coming, and proceed into the turn lane for the light.

Needless to say, I have full roadrage at this light.

During this time, it was amazing to me the number of people who would either answer their phone or be walking in with a full conversation going on. This happend to me probably 5 times on the trip.

I’m not sure that it bothers me as an atendee of the same facility, but I find it incredably difficult to rationalize how this is rude to the other half of the conversation.

Again, more things I don’t understand.

I understand there are times that this behavior can be approprate, as when you are the only car on the road, and pot-holes fill the slow lane. Maybe then.
Otherwise,”keep right except to pass!” and “slower traffic use right lane!”

How hard is that?

While we were parking, a gentleman was driving his car across the empty parking lot. Across.
This isnt too out of the ordinary, as the lot was empty, except for us. As he drove directly toward us, he seemed perturbed that we were parking, and that we were in his way.

Just simply strange that he was in the right…. crossing the parking lot and was upset that we were parking.

I just dont understand.

So this time I was to fill up my tank at my “favorite” station, I noticed that the gas was 6 cents cheaper than it was directly across the street. My choice is clear, buy gas from the cheaper supplier.? Right.

The catch is, people were lined up 7 or eight deep waiting here to get gas. No lines at the competitor.
My truck has a 15 gallon tank, which if completely empty, would make the price difference of about 90 cents if I bought the cheaper gas. But of course I would have to wait in line maybe 15 minutes for this (as everyone else was doing). And because it was near 90 degrees outside, most of them kept their vehicles running for the AC.

In my mind, that 15 min of waiting, and running my truck far under weighed the almost 90 cents that I would be paying for convenience and getting out of the way of the herd.

Im just saying.

So, I was in dire need of a haircut and there I was, walking into my barber’s shop only to see that one family of a father, 2 sons, and mother were waiting in “line”. The only problem was that each of them had one chair between them, and one on each side at the ends, so those 4 people “took” all 9 seats.

I stood for a while.

I was going to checkout of the hotel, so I had two large bags and
pushed the down button for the elevator.

The elevator made a ding and opened the door. A young lady with her
own luggage must have thought that she was on the lobby floor and took
a couple steps toward the door. She realized that I was getting on
the elevator and that she was not on the lobby floor and remained
exactly in the middle of the elevator.

It was quite obvious that I needed a little room to get into the
elevator, yet she remained exactly in the middle.

Now this was no small elevator, but for some reason, she had no
intention to move further into the room to allow me to enter, so we
danced a little as I had to squeeze by her with my luggage, raking the
wall and the buttons.

I was wanting to say something witty, like they don’t make elevators
as big as they use to, but we were at the lobby before I could think
of anything better than that.

No one was in the room at the time, but I was standing directly in front of the coffee maker when I noticed coffee splattering just off the side of the pot and onto the counter. At first glance, it looked just like coffee was dripping from around the basket (where the grounds are) and landing on the edge of the maker and creating a mess.

Having the eyesight of a small single-celled amoeba, I started to move in to see where the leak was…. Just about the time I found that it was actually spilled coffee boiling on the burner under the pot, and only being about 8 inches from the coffee pot, a huge hand goes by my face and grabs the coffee pot and begins to pour the life-nectar into a cup.

I admit I am not as observant and Adrian Monk, but I do know that the guy had to have walked directly into the large room, and directly to the coffee pot without giving me a chance to move out of the way.

so my question is, How important is coffee to you? It was quite obvious that I was looking at something that I found interesting, and I could assume possibly important about said coffee. Just how rude do you have to be to walk directly in front of someone for coffee?

I just don’t understand.

The other half fail to remember their high school physics class material concerning inertia, momentum and the coefficient of friction. I think they assume that the shorter they are driving from point A to point B, the lower their risk of having an accident.