11-18-04:
I went to traffic court today. What's funny is that I could have avoided going to traffic court altogether by 1: having up-to-date tags, 2: using the testimony-by-mail option. So three weeks after the offense I remembered somehow that I could have mailed in a written piss and moan dissertation rather than going to the courthouse. Oh well, going downtown afforded me a chance to do some angry city driving (tire squealing, cutting people off, speeding..) I love angry driving. The main reason, I think, is that I pull all these reckless maneuvers while being aware of what I'm doing while most of the other drivers in Seattle are doing the same thing obliviously. Holy crap, Seattle drivers suck. Since the end of september I've had 7 people pull out in front of me without looking. Then they see my car and their faces turn white, hahaha. When the next one of these little bastards pulls out in front of me I'm just gonna hit the gas and see what happens:
Maybe I can split the thing in two? or three? And then I'll swear that I tried so swerve but the idiot was just such an awful driver that I couldn't miss. And hopefully he's critically injured so the court will only hear my testimony.
Did you know most interstate freeways were designed for cars to go at least 110mph without incident? This country is going down the shitter in a big way, I mean, 3 years ago I could drive between Portland and Seattle and not see and single stater. It's true the speed limit has gone up, but now you can only go 20 over before you're facing jail time. Damnit, if Montana wasn't ruled by the right wing I'd move there. While they do have speed limits now it's still a joke. $20 for 20 over - and most of the time not even that. Still not as good as the good ol' days: a $5 ticket for "wasting gas." Until 1999 these lined the freeways in Montana:
Fact: the average speed on Montana freeways was lower during the reasonable and prudent years. When the speed limit was set at 75 the average speed went up and so did traffic fatalities. Now, what I advocate is, instead of the diamond lane, a skull and crossbones lane. No speed limits, no crappy drivers, no problem.
