Sorry about last week

I am an angry person, but I am also a lazy person. Last week I actually had to do work at work (a shock to all who know me) and the first thing to suffer was this Web-Log. So I will pick up things on an important topic...

Headlights...

So it has been gloomy in the past week or few and more and more I have noticed cars (usually gray or black) driving through the gloom with no headlights on. So, here's a little tip for them, if everyone around you has headlights on, you should too. Now, I can understand why these people don't turn there lights on, they can see fine. But, they need to understand that it's for the people around them, because nothing blends into a gray rainy day then a gray car.

Some states have laws where if your wipers are being used then your lights should be on (NC is one of those states) but for some reason these laws don't get enforced, which I don't understand at all. It is way more dangerous for me to be driving through limited visibility with no lights on then it is for me to be going 50 in a 45 on a bright sunny day yet, speeding tickets are given out to everyone (even during rush hour traffic), when I haven't even heard of a citation for the headlight law. So, police, get off your butt and fix this problem! Is it because you don't want to get wet? Suck it up you bunch of pansies, your supposed to be protecting the public.

Some people will claim that if they turn on their lights when it's not dark out they will leave there lights on when they get out of their car. Two things wrong with that argument 1. Your car is friggin beeping (or dinging or chiming or whatever) at you! Do you walk away from something actively warning you about something without finding out what that something is? and 2. there is an easy way to make sure you don't leave them on, train yourself to turn the lights off as a reflex, and here's how. When you turn the engine off with your right hand, make the motion to turn the lights off with your left hand. Even if they aren't on, if you make the motion, you can train your muscles to do it as instinct. Trust me, I used to own a Del Sol which came with no headlight tone, I left my lights on once and learned from it.

Now to all you idiots who drive at night with no lights on, or even more irritatingly, with just your parking lights on... FIX IT!!! I find it impossible to believe that if your looking where your going you can't tell their not on (Boy it's dark tonight, I wonder why?). I know the main cause of this illness too... Just because you are in a lit parking lot doesn't alter the basic math, nighttime=headlights.

Ok nuff for today...