Ramblings of a Failing Mind

Frequently I’ve noticed that whenever you are following a car that happens to have the handicapped stamp on their plates, not the rear view tags mind you, 9/10 times they end up doing something that makes me mumble, rant, and sometimes even curse Virginia for letting them continue to operate a death mobile, ie car, on the road.  Tonight for example, after having a wonderful dinner, we were leaving the little cul-de-sac where a multitude of restaurants exist, I pull up behind a silver sedan.  There’s nothing remarkable about this sedan, other than it has the handi-crap stamp.  I don’t say anything at first and wait patiently.  Until there’s a period of no oncomming traffic and they still do not pull out.  I start the beginning of the process… mumbling.  An oncomming car comes and leaves and nothing else in view, and still they do not pull out.  I begin the rant, “See! Every stinking time there’s a handicrapped, I mean handicapped license plate they can’t drive…”  They finally pull out, and proceed to drive a whooping 20mph in the left lane.  This is significant for two reasons.  First, the speedlimit is 35mph, and secondly, they are headed directly for the turning lane which just got a green arrow and the only car in the line to turn has made it’s exodus and there’s nothing in the way of getting to the light in time and safely I stress.  But nooooo, they just continue to drive at their less than mediocre pace, which in turn gets them and myself stuck behind the red light.  Here comes the most amazing part of the whole story.  They do that light creep thing now.  Where you creep forward a couple of inches every few seconds because you’re in a hurry.  Except this wonderful car doesn’t creep forward a few inches, it’s creeping forward feet, yes feeeet at a time, as if they plan to make a left hand turn on a red light as soon as they deem it clear.  They creep up so far that their rear bumper has now crossed beyond the point of no return (that thick white line that is your indication of not traveling past), and has placed the front of their car into the way of oncomming traffic that has the right of way.  And yet it doesn’t make them stop the creeping.  They continue their creep up until the point of the green arrow returning and giving us the nod to go on our way.