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04-28-2007, 12:49 AM
I think its time I shared some of my fustration about driving in San Antonio. This way at least I wouln't be temped to take it out on anyone on the road. Not like I could do much in a 1971 Super Beatle, but thats not the point. In my minds eyes there is no limit to what I could do. Okay back to reality driving in San Antonio is on a good day a challenge. Add a little rain and now we have a natural disaster. Now that I have set the stage let me share a typical day. I leave the house or at least I try to leave the house. I have to enter the access road of I10 between Calahan and Wurzbach. I spend a few minutes rocking back and forth you now because you have go from 0-45 in as short a times as humanly possible. becuase they will run you down really I have seen it happen. So, I get onto the access road after being narrowly missed be of all things a police car. Now I have to drive across three lanes in order to get onto I10. A few minutes tense moments and wow that car was moving didn't even see him. Okay take a deep breath now your on the highway. Now your cruising highway speed relax everything is cool and what the hey. Were did he come from. All of sudden everyone stops. They don't slow down they stop. I sure am glad I way paying attention. Almost nailed that one. I don't believe it its same guy who almost who ran me off the road. You know turns signals wouldn't kill you. Okay now I getting annoyed I haven't even gotten to 1604 and already there have been three near misses. What is it do they just have death wish or something. I make it to 1604 I great now I can relax. I mean I am getting of off I10 what else could happen. So, I enter the ramp to 1604 and wouln't you know there is some creatin behind me and he is way to close. I look in my rear view mirror and no foolin I can actually see the color in the mans eyes. I want to stop, but I don't because well ... he could be packing. So, I don't now I have to cross three lanes of traffic. So, for the next thirty miles we travel together like a bunch of pissed off relatives to our respetive detinations. At a top speed of thirty miles an hour. I would take a bus or well anything, but there are no busses where I need to go. So, I drive I watch in utter amazement as four cars change lanes with out actually hitting each other. Truly astonishing these same people would kill each other at a stop light; however, some how they manage to change lanes at seventy miles an hour. By the time I get to my destination I am ready to kiss the ground. But it doesn't end here o no know. After I drop my wife off I have to turn around and do it all over again. O I was the lucky one. I have other that were not so lucky. To this day I will never forget the ones that didn't make it. So, if your temped to speed remember you aren't just endangering your life, but everyone elses to.