GMontag's Journal: DC, region of cowple

The greater Washington DC metropolitan area is populated by cattle.

This is the only conclusion that I can draw from my recent several months of venturing away from Crystal Drive and running errands during lunch breaks. The DC beltway is populated by cattle disguised as people. Not sheeple, mind you, but something more like cowple. They do not move in herds (unless herded), they move in random, unpredictable ways against all signs, hints, flow and directives of where and when to move.

The turn-signal-free U-turns on Crystal Drive (every driver in the region requires 4 lanes to do this move) were a hint. Actually, I had seen that on King Street in Old Town Alexandria a while back, but seeing it on Crystal Drive 24/7 really brought it home.

Venturing "across the river" only results in more examples of the same stupidity. Ignoring one-way signs, ignoring stop signs, making turns at intersections from the wrong lane, making turns from across the street to bag a parking space (5 lanes away), cowple jaywalking in heavy traffic, cowple ignoring the red-hand of "don't walk", cowple walking on the wrong side of the sidewalk, pairs of cowple taking up a wide sidewalk, cowple going through the wrong doors (the short e-word is exit, usually on the right when LEAVING a building), cowple rushing into elevators before people can exit, cowple blocking doorways to chitchat, cowple blocking elevators with their slowness, cowple blocking whole lanes of a road in a babble gaggle, cowple blocking driveways to pet dogs on a walk, cowple cowple cowple!

This area collects cowple, apparently. Cowple can not survive in their native towns, cities and lands so they must come to the DC area where they can fit in and breed to make a new generation of cowple. They bitch about the suburbs, and then move out there to raise their calfple to be the annoying snots who populate Reston and other communities. Suburban cowple meander around the drives of the town centers and the ones driving are pulling U-turns through hurds of cowple.

The cowple hear from their friends that Wal*Mart = bad, so they echo the words, without ever visiting one until they are in the suburbs. Cowple want to tell everybody else what to do but never do themselves what they want others to do. Cowple want the whole world to pay for their stupidity but are unwilling to pay for anybody else's.

Cowple suck.

Drivers are killing me

[sielwolf]

How can people sit in the left lane, when they aren't waiting for a left side exit, and go slower than the lanes to the right of them?

Didn't these people have drivers' ed? Drive on the right, pass on the left. Folks don't seem to understand what their rearview is for. People, if a car drives up on your ass... move right a lane. If he gets behind you he wants to draft. If not, let him by. And if there are cops HE'LL GET PICKED UP! What is not to gain? You get to use another 2% of your brain, the flow

Va drivers

[GeckoFood]

It took a trip to and from the midwest for me to come to grips that what everyone who is not from Virginia says is true - VA drivers are, by and large, among the worst on the road. I used to think otherwise, but on this one particular trip we were crossing Ohio and there were two separate instances where I was nearly run off the road by very impatient drivers. They hogged the left lane, rode bumpers and weaved in and out of traffic like it was a game. Both of these talented drivers were from Virginia. All o

yeah, I almost died because of a cowple yesterday

[TechnoLust]

I was in the left hand lane making a left turn at an intersection and had to stop because of people walking across the street despite the big red hand on the sign. Then the other light turned and I was still there waiting. Some guy came flying down the road and almost hit me. I went on through the intersection to avoid it, even tho those poor cowple had too hurry out of my way.