Yeah, beating the dead horse, I get it. But here’s the other thing.. you know, talking about driveway turnaround politics. When I realize I am heading the wrong way or something and have to use a stranger’s driveway for a turnaround I always scout for a quiet, empty driveway. If there’s some dude watering his lawn or something, I keep looking.

That said, I have had people pull into my driveway when I’m standing right there. Often they’re driving recklessly. I had a woman pull into my driveway one day when I was just grabbing the garbage pail from the end of the drive. She squealed in, almost hit me, and gave me an annoyed look because she had to turn hard to avoid running me over.

It took me a moment to regain my composure after leaping out of the way. I raised my arms arms in a what the hell gesture, trying to find words to express my…discomfiture. Of cours,e these would have been of the four letter variety, but I didn’t have a chance. She was already pulling away, shaking her head like I had just done something obnoxious. Like, I don’t know, nearly running someone over in their own driveway while making an illegal high speed 3 point turn. Maybe something like that.

I look forward to the day when we have video conferencing services in every car with license plates that double as phone numbers of a sort – so we can cal