Tag: observations

Cleveland Police, WTF

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Yesterday during my rush hour trip home two Cleveland Police cars got on the highway in front of me at the West 6th street ramp.  They were about 6 cars in front of me.  They immediately pulled parallel to each other, one in each of the lanes, and then put on their flashers and slowed to 40 miles an hour.

Everyone slammed on there brakes as there was no warning, and traffic immediately started backing up behind them (and well behind me).  I had hoped, maybe, they were doing this because there was an accident up ahead I didn’t know about.  That made sense in my mind.  What didn’t make sense is when they got to the Whiskey Island exit, turned off their flashers and pulled off the highway and slowly drove towards the Edgewater park parking lot.

If there was an emergency or accident why were they going well below the speed limit.  At any given moment they were 10 mph or more below the speed limit.  And why did they shut off their lights as soon as they pulled off the highway and proceed even slower to the parking lot.  And if there wasn’t an emergency that means they were just being dicks and wanted to fuck with rush hour traffic.  I wasn’t close enough to read the numbers on their cars, but I was close enough to be extremely pissed at their meaningless actions.

Dear person,

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Dear person putting flyers under my windshield wiper,

Last Friday you put a flyer under my windshield wiper, it was more of a postcard than a flyer, but you put it there none-the-less.  I didn’t drive my car all weekend.  I am assuming it was Friday you put it there, but it could have been Saturday I suppose.  No later than Saturday morning, I know this because Saturday afternoon it poured.  Torrential downpour.  A river from the sky.  It was awesome.

What is not so awesome is waking up Monday morning and finding a soaked flyer (postcard) stuck to my windshield because it had dried to my windshield.  After a day and half of scraping at it, and trying to peel it all off, I am left with a matte outline of white paper on my windshield.  I’m sure it will eventually come off.  I hope.

Regardless, you suck.

Not your friend at all,

AJ

Dear Pennsylvania,

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Dear Pennsylvania,

I am writing to tell that a “highway repair focused” economy is awful.  Don’t try to hide it.  I know most of your economy comes from the constant, and what I suspect as unnecessary, highway repairs you have going on all over your state at all times.  Its obscene really.  It makes visiting your state, even just driving through, a god awful experience.  Any appreciation of your natural beauty is lost by the anger and frustration one gets from driving on your highways at speeds considerable slower than 65 miles per hour because of the constant construction.

I wish I could drive around you without doubling the time and distance of any road trip.

You suck,

AJ

Candy, or not candy

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Listening to NPR this I was a little shocked at what states are now defining as candy. States like Colorado and Washington are now going to tax candy as a way to fill in budget deficits.

In order to do this they first have to define what is candy; and the determining factor as to what is or is not candy, is flour. That’s right. Because Twix and Kit Kats have flour in them they are not candy. But a Snickers bar that is devoid of flour is candy. I find it the most bizarre arbitrary way to define something as candy.

However I am envious of the guy who gets to sit there and have candy sent to his office to see if it is taxable as “candy” or not. I wonder if he makes secret deals with his favorte candy company to be supplied candy for life if he deems it not taxable.

Turning Lane

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I have been having these weird thoughts about the turning lane lately.

Do you have to put on your blinker in the turning lane?  Just in random observations it seems most people don’t (although I think its close to 50/50).  I always put on my blinker in the turning lane.

I’m not sure what the law states (nor am I really interesting in what the law states about it), but in my own experience I would rather have a blinker on for the unobservant drivers who don’t realize they are in a turning lane with me and could smash up my vehicle if they choose to than not turn it on.  I’m not sure what  has brought this to the forefront of my thought lately but its there.

Oh…and another thing that bugs me.  I have snapped a few pictures with my cell phone from my car lately on the way to work.  I post them on facebook, or here, or wherever and there is always that ass who seems to need to smugly point the obvious out   “who’s driving the vehicle.”

Side note – I honestly don’t think police should be able to ticket us for something as mundane as using your cell phone while driving, when police do it all the time.  I don’t think I’ve ever seen a cop with a bluetooth headset on, but I have seen many cops using the cell phones while driving.  Not rushing to an accident or anything, but casually driving the streets.  I would laugh my ass off if one police officer pulled over another for using their cell phone while driving.  I think then, I could accept that law.

Anyways, so when I see something awesome while I’m driving I’ll snap a picture, if there’s a place to stop and take the picture, I will, but if not, I’ll snap a quick picture anyways.   And without fail some ass who probably does their make up or drinks their coffee, searches for something in the backseat, eats some food, looks for something in her purse or fiddles with the radio while driving, but sees nothing wrong with those distracting actions, will comment on taking a picture using while driving.  Its moronic, stupid and irksome.