I don't know why women got a reputation for being bad drivers - unless pushing supermarket carts counts as driving. I think I'm a good driver. After all, I spent seven years driving in New York City. When I sang "New York, New York", I changed the words. I sang "If you can drive it there, you can drive it anywhere. New York. New York".
When I drive, I follow the rules of the road, while trying not to follow the car in front of me too closely. I stop for pedestrians crossing the street; but on freeways I'm the one who's crossing - my fingers. I know I'm driving too fast when I can't read the vanity plates on the cars I'm passing.
Unlike most Californians, I don't slow down to look at accidents. I don't think that flat tires and overheated engines are "cartastrophes". New Yorkers don't slow down to look at accidents - even it they're involved in them.
My biggest problem with California drivers isn't that they change lanes more than I change my mind about what to wear to a "dressy casual" cocktail party. It's that they don't use their directional signals. Unfortunately, these Kamikaze lane changers come in a variety of styles.
There are mathematical lane changers. Knowing the shortest distance between two points is a straight line, they cross three lanes of traffic to an exit. Then there are the Weight Watcher's lane changers. They try to cut in front of you, can't fit in and cause you to break so they can squeeze in. Last but not least, there are the dancing-with-the-stars lane changers. They don't actually change lanes. They waltz back and forth between them. It takes two to tango, but it only takes one to cause an accident.
Thankfully, some drivers warn you that they're dangerous. Drivers struggling with the folds of a map don't have to look far to find an accident and drivers looking in the rear-view mirror to put on makeup look like wrecks.
Defensive driving means paying attention to other drivers so you don't have to pay for their mistakes. Gun fighters in the old west had a notch on their belts for each person they gunned down. Maybe bad drivers should have a notch on their license plates for each accident they cause. Nevertheless, to all drivers who want to drive safely on the freeways I say, "Tanks".
Have you recently been plagued by telemarketers pestering you at all hours of the day and night? Well, if you have been you are definitely not alone. These sales people have become a big thorn in the sides of a lot of people because they call us at home, uninvited, many times by folks that we can not even understand, about some product or sales package that we have never heard of, and usually are not remotely interested in.
Some of the items that telemarketers like to try and sell us are things like cruise ship vacations, special telephone packages, insurance of some kind, or any number of other things. Where do all these people get our phone numbers when we had them unlisted specifically for this reason when we had our phone installed?
For the most of us it is not because we are rude people, but rather that we are busy people. It is difficult to sit down to dinner or to relax when the phone is ringing off the hook. It can be distracting and annoying enough sometimes when it our friends or relatives that we know we have to talk to even if we are not in the mood, but when it is a complete stranger trying to sell you something two or three times a day it can become very intrusive in your private life.
Even when you put your name on the supposed do not call list, it seems that the calls may quiet down for a few months and then they can start all over again. It is a problem that so many of us are really tired of having to deal with. Getting unsolicited junk mail in our box or receiving spam email is bad enough, but we can delete the emails and throw the junk mail in the trash. If you choose not to answer the phone, you still have to listen to it ring and ring until they give up and go away. We can take the phone off the hook, but then we might run the risk of missing an important call. We should not have to be put in this position.
What is the world coming to when complete strangers are able to call you repeatedly even after you have asked them not to? It is like having that annoying neighbor that comes over that you have to put up with everyday like it or not. Someone really needs to set some new ground rules for telemarketing before they drive us all crazy.
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