YMCA B-Baller
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I don't know if this counts as an old man rant or just a rant rant, but am I alone in thinking a LOT more ashholes are driving around with their high beams on at all times?
(Cue up Jerry Seinfeld meme ... what's the deal with?)
I live in a small college city. Not an urban jungle, but not a one stoplight podunk town either. Was driving home down a four-lane street back to my house after a game.
Three people on the other side of the road had their high beams on in the middle of the city. Why? There are street lights, it's well-marked, visibility was perfectly fine. I flashed one of them, something I never thought I'd ever do in an urban environment.
And, of course, high beams aren't your father's high beams. They're seemingly pulled straight out of a disused Great Lakes lighthouse somewhere. Halogens on PCP. LEDs on PEDs.
Wearing glashes, I have trouble with bright lights in my face. Even if I didn't wear glashes, I'm pretty sure I'd have trouble with brights in my face. The protocol of going to your dims temporarily while you pash someone and then putting your brights back on when the coast is clear seems to be a concept lost to history in the same way we don't know how the pyramids were built.
Then there's the mental midgets who turn them on when it's raining or foggy. Hey stupids, all it does is reflect off the moisture and fork with your visibility more than it would with them off. Please go straight to the BMV, take a written test, and may God have mercy on your souls.
It's forking endemic. I suppose I could chalk it up to yet another part of everyday life that's just more rude, but it's like, why? How is this something a selection of people said, "Yeah, I'm totally going to start doing that now."
fork off, high beam riders.
(Cue up Jerry Seinfeld meme ... what's the deal with?)
I live in a small college city. Not an urban jungle, but not a one stoplight podunk town either. Was driving home down a four-lane street back to my house after a game.
Three people on the other side of the road had their high beams on in the middle of the city. Why? There are street lights, it's well-marked, visibility was perfectly fine. I flashed one of them, something I never thought I'd ever do in an urban environment.
And, of course, high beams aren't your father's high beams. They're seemingly pulled straight out of a disused Great Lakes lighthouse somewhere. Halogens on PCP. LEDs on PEDs.
Wearing glashes, I have trouble with bright lights in my face. Even if I didn't wear glashes, I'm pretty sure I'd have trouble with brights in my face. The protocol of going to your dims temporarily while you pash someone and then putting your brights back on when the coast is clear seems to be a concept lost to history in the same way we don't know how the pyramids were built.
Then there's the mental midgets who turn them on when it's raining or foggy. Hey stupids, all it does is reflect off the moisture and fork with your visibility more than it would with them off. Please go straight to the BMV, take a written test, and may God have mercy on your souls.
It's forking endemic. I suppose I could chalk it up to yet another part of everyday life that's just more rude, but it's like, why? How is this something a selection of people said, "Yeah, I'm totally going to start doing that now."
fork off, high beam riders.