I miss big city violence.
Nashville has horrible drivers. I've driven in
Boston, New York, L.A., I'm from Chicago and I'm starting to think that
Nashville has the worst drivers. Now of course traffic in all those cities is
worse than in nashville, but there are unspoken rules to driving in a big city.
Here in nashville, they don't seem to follow any rules, they just feel free to
do what they please and scream at you if you get in their way, even if they're
in the wrong. (I'm talking to you Mr. Cowboy in the lifted blue pick up truck
with the chrome bumpers at walmart!)
My
sister is from L.A. and actually brought it up after she got yelled at. My
unscientific theory is that there are no consequences for driving poorly or
shooting your mouth off in nashville, thus no natural selection. In Los
Angeles, you get shot. In Chicago, someone jumps out of their car with a bat
and in New York they shoot you then they jump out with a bat just to make
sure... Reid, who's from Jersey thinks that it's actually transplanted people
from L.A. and Jersey who are the idiot drivers because they've discovered they
have no natural predators and so are running
amok.
Early on in my Chicago driving
experience, I had a tiny car do an oncoming left turn right in front of me at an
intersection and I promptly yelled out: "LEARN TO DRIVE!!!! YOU are the biggest
black man I have ever seen, o my gosh...". It looked like the hulk driving a
mini cooper. So I learned right away not to yell at people... I'm actually
working on a tune about shrugging that stuff off and not taking it home. The
thing about responding to someone's anger is that you might be on the receiving
end of a bat or a knife... you never know. Even if you win you're prob going to
jail. I try to let that stuff roll cause in the end, guys who drive
aggressively usually end up in a ditch and guys who pick fights eventually end
up in a ditch too...
I was back in
Chicago recently and I saw a clueless woman on a cell phone block an
intersection. It wasn't 2 seconds before I heard this ring out from an
impatient Chicago motorist:
"GET OFF YOUR
F***ING CELLPHONE AND DRIVE YOU STUPID
C***!!!!"
ah... I miss Chicago...
Posted: Mon - July 23, 2007 at 04:55 PM
