Doesn't one usually drive much more recklessly if they are in a car by themselves?
How come it seems like I'm the only one who drives like a blind granny with a prosthetic leg when I drive alone?
For example, as I was driving home up Beach Blvd tonight, I kept trying to find the lane with the slowest cars. It had to be perfect. The cars in front of me had to be slow and the cars behind me had to be slow. The equilibrium of the slow had to match. Sometimes this doesn't work out the way I want it to, and sometimes it works out exactly as I planned it. In order to create this perfect slow lane, you need teamwork, from all the drivers in that lane, even if you aren't directly communicating with them. Trust me. I would text them all with elaborate slow lane equilibrium plans if I could. Besides, drivers are mental at night, so you have to choose wisely. You don't want to end up in a lane where everyone is speeding at around 60mph. That is too much pressure for late night cruising. Ruins the purpose of cruising.
But when you find that perfect cruising lane?
It is fuckin' beautiful.
When you are slowly cruising in the middle of the night, alone in your car, listening to albums you bought at Amoeba the night before, its well sexy.
Slow is the new fast.
Right? Right?
I guess what I'm trying to say is...
it's okay to take it slow sometimes.
drive slow homie.
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*sigh* thank you, thank you. you have iterated what i hoped to say without my cusswords mixed in as i yell at the irresponsible fools that are zipping around on the freeway lanes.
let's take it slow. enjoy the dragonflies buzzing past us...and the sun changing its rays...or just stretch out the ride so that we can listen to the music.
but yeah. i do drive fast when alone.
so i'm driving back home from sd. i'm in the fast lane. i'm just cruising along not thinking about anything at all, and then...
i get freaken high beamed. then, i get high beamed again. i check how fast i'm going and i'm going 80 mph. b/c i'm afraid of getting another speeding ticket, i dare not pass 80 mph for too long. anyways, 80 mph is fast enough.
so i'm wondering what i should do. the lane to my right is packed so the car can't switch lanes. i'm thinking about braking until i'm going like 40 mph or something b/c he wouldn't be able to change lanes.
eventually, he passes me, but he doesn't end up going too much faster than me. so i start thinking about chasing him down and high beaming him.
but then, i told myself to chill. just chill, donald.
so i chilled and started cruising along again not thinking about anything at all, and then...
traffic caused by an accident.
i have no point to this comment. just wanted to share my driving mis-adventures.
i like this post.
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