Encounters With Dangerous Drivers

Driving into town usually entails listening to the radio, thinking about what I have to get done, and wishing red lights would take a day off. Today in a strange twist of fate my radio could only find bad songs and bad opinions so I did something different. I turned the radio off and glanced through my passenger side window, only for a second, as I was admittedly moving and really did not want the car insurance rates that come with a wreck. That is when it happened. The lesson had begun.

Driver number 1: “The maniacal lipstick car destroyer.”
Yes it is true, while driving 40 miles per hour a woman thought that applying lipstick was an appropriate project to undertake. Being in the insurance industry and knowing the damage an out of control car can do at 40mph I hit the gas to get out of the way. I was speeding sure, but I saved my car insurance company from paying a claim. Besides, she may have had more makeup to put on. So I was safely on my way. Or so I thought. (more…)