[cstreit]

Okay, so here in the Chicago area we're getting about 1" of snow daily, meaning every day for the past week there is some snow on the streets.


WHAT is with the drivers?! They get up to the smoking speeds of 20MPH on 4 lane streets, neck and neck and won't move or let anyone by. They just keep that squinty-eyed death grip on the wheel while they scan the road 10 feet in front of them for the other slack-jawed-minivan-drivers with the same serious affliction.

Then there's the early brakers. You know the ones... They slowly coast up towards the next intersection and come ever so slowly to a complete halt 30 yards from the next car... then creep up at 2 MPH right up to the bumper of the car in front over the next 30 seconds.

A close third is the drivers that seem to proceed relatively normally untill they must turn a corner. They then come to an agonizingly slow halt and creep reluctantly through the corner as if their fatastic rate of speed is going to send them creening off into the next state...

Now I'm all for safety, but it seems so many border on paranoia!

...or is it just me?