All Drivers Suck, Except Me!

Hello again fans of the People Suck blog. I am back from vacation, and after traveling 1,600 miles by car, RoadRage is full of rage!

First off, thanks to Dodge-Chrysler for continuing to make shoddy products. After only 60,000 miles, our Grand Caravan's radiator hose broke, stranding us in North Carolina for a day, and postponing our vacation to Myrtle Beach by one day. Luckily, we found a good guy named Carl to fix it at a very reasonable price.

The biggest hassle on the trip was the traffic and the stupid people who populate our nation's roadways. And, it's very odd that when you're driving for that long, you start to recognize the similarities in the driving tendencies of people from the same state.

Michigan drivers act like their on the Autobahn, no matter what the weather conditions are, the time of day, or if there's construction.

Ohioans do whatever they can to ruin your time on the road. If they're in the left lane and you're in the right trying to pass someone, they speed up or slow down seemingly just to get in your way -- they go 30 over the speed limit when they're behind you and 30 under when they're in front of you.

People from Indiana need to just pull over when they see other drivers come by, because they don't seem to know what they are doing ever.

Fortunately, drivers in the south are a little better, and seem to be more considerate of the people around them. Unfortunately. I had to come back home, and face the same moronic drivers from the North again.

And, added to the pain of that was the fact that it took three hours to drive the last 40 miles home. How? The state of Illinois, in its infinite wisdom, decided to launch construction projects on the two main highways that go through the city. We stopped in Ohio for the last night of the trip, and it took four hours to get to the Illinois state line before we hit the wall of traffic.

I wish all the memories I had of my trip were of the fun I had with my family in South Carolina, but, alas, what will stick in my mind are my car breaking down and the sucky drivers who ruined my road trip.

RoadRage