Driving Tip for Hoosiers

If you must change lanes due to an obstruction in current lane, (i.e. large loading truck with flashing lights, invincible gangsta gots da wiggles and doesn’t look both ways before crossing the street, or a suburban mom’s GPS or front dash DVD player malfunctions), it is determined that if you have indicated your intention by turn signal and noticed a W I D E gap in which you can navigate your car into desired lane FOR THE LOVE OF GOD please take that opportunity to move into that lane.

I am polite for I am Southern…this is indicated by my willingness to apply slight pressure to the brake in order to assist your need, but GOD HELP YOU if you force me to stop because of your inability to understand this gesture. Kiss your euchre charms that I don’t get all Texan on you. This technique is strikingly defined in which the person who must change lanes could care less about turn signals let alone checking for openings and abruptly jerks into desired lane whether there is a car, person, puppy, or infant child in the road.

People, even our retired community drives with better common sense. Sheesh.

But I will give you some props: your roads are so pristine in the winter. Yes, they may be punctuated with plum-sized globs of molasses that melt away the horrific ice and snow. But after shoveling away two feet of snow and warming up my car for thirty minutes, your roads are so navigable.