F... idiot drivers

[Sociofan]

I'm always amused when I hear people outside of the D.C. area bitch about road jerks. It's so pervasive here we just learn to deal with it, but every once in a while when I'm in a particularly bad mood and some dumbass pulls a move, I can go nearly apoplectic.

However, let me tell you a good story. My wife picked me up from the Vienna Metro one afternoon and we were heading west on I-66 in the HOV lane. Now MY pet peeve is single drivers who feel that they alone are privileged enough to crowd up those lanes. Around Centreville, traffic is slowing and this woman cuts us off to get into the HOV lane. We are tooling along at a crawl and we see a state trooper with a car pulled for an HOV violation. The woman in front of us immediately tries to get back into the snail lanes but no one would let her in. My wife starts honking at the trooper and pointing at the woman in front of us. He nods and flags the woman to the side of the road. As we drove past the jerkette, my wife just smiled and waved.

Kind of made my day.