A few twits on the drive home
News ·Thursday September 21, 2006 @ 21:19 EDT (link)
One more from church last weekend: there are times where bullet points are highly inappropriate, such as, for instance, when you're putting up a (sample? congregational?) prayer. The random indentations with yet more bullet points are an especially bogus touch. I like the pastor there (as pastors go); he's a decent and knowledgeable chap (comes from spending time in the real world before going to seminary, I hear), but his slides have issues.
Real prize driving home today: blue Acura sedan, WA 337 TQD. We're driving on Novelty Hill, single file, and we get to a merge lane for people turning onto Novelty Hill from a side street. And this twit tries to use it as a passing lane. Naturally, I, feeling called to defend the righteous against the evildoer, refuse to let him in, he honks, I wave. He eventually passes me using the right turn only lane near the hill (strike two!), which I expected, and actually hoped for since it let me get his plate.
And a few lesser offenders, both on the drive home on the 19th: WA 575 VNU, gray Audi A4: no signal turning left onto 40th; WA A66462V, black Toyota Tacoma, bad merge (i.e. lack thereof, also known as an attempted sideswipe or bullheaded stupidity) onto 520 from Redmond Way, and WA 712 UKW, tan Chevy Tahoe, egomaniacal attempt to cut in line. As an explanation of the last: Novelty Hill is, as I mentioned, mostly single lane, but at some points there are two lanes. Some people take advantage of these places to pass as many cars as they can, which is heinous because, dude, we're all trying to get home, what makes you so special that you get to cut in front of the rest of us? It's going to go back to being one lane again soon anyway; it's not like a highway where changing lanes actually helps.
The Microsoft company meeting was today, at SafeCo field as usual. Not as interesting as last year's and I didn't get any T-shirts at the product show following. I can see why longtimers usually give it a miss.
