It’s like I have seaweed for brains. I can’t get over this topic. But here’s one more driveway turnaround anecdote and then I’ll let it go. For a while. Maybe.

One time I was coming home with the family from a dinner out or something. We made the right turn into our driveway as a car came flying form the other direction. Now let me take a moment to point out that we have a reasonably long driveway that makes a sort of S turn with a bit of an incline. Not a steep hill and maybe a reversed S, depending on yor angle. But the point is that you turn into my driveway and then have to make a pretty quick, pretty sharp turn in the other direction. So, right turn in and then a fast turn left up the S curve.

Oh yeah, there was a car behind us. Not tailgating or anything, but following us at a respectful distance and reasonable speed.

So we turn into the driveway and the guy speeding from the other direction suddenly cuts into our driveway, cutting off the driver behind us and nearly rear ending my car which was just completing that left turn up the S.

Of course, I had no reason to expect some random dude would turn into our driveway, certainly not right behind us as we pulled in. Especially considering that driver’s high rate of speed, and the fact that there is a driveway across the street that, albeit made of gravel, would not require cutting off opposing traffic or narrowly avoiding a collision. But what do I know?

And here’s the capper, because even though this seems ridiculous to me, I have told this story to several people I consider poor drivers, and at this point they still don’t understand my complaint. Even with the capper, of course, I know plenty of drivers who would support the other driver’s right to do whatever he wants, no matter how dangerous because “nobody got hurt, right?”

Anyway, as promised – the capper. The guy who nearly caused two accidents making an illegal and obnoxious (not to mention dangerous) turn into my driveway? He honked at me.

Yup, he laid on the horn, apparently because I didn’t take my S driveway at 60 miles per hour and caused him to slam on his brakes.

Go bless America…