an open letter to fellow drivers
Nov. 5th, 2010 12:12 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
imwaldeDear jackholes without your headlights on,
TURN ON YOUR MOTHERFUCKING HEADLIGHTS. Perhaps no one ever explained this, but the reason for headlights is twofold: 1) so you can see ahead of you and 2) so other cars can see you. If conditions are doubtful for meeting either one of these, TURN ON YOUR MOTHERFUCKING HEADLIGHTS. The criteria for turning them on is not night so pitch black you'd drive into a pole without them on, mkay? When it's raining? DO IT. When it's dusk? Do it. When it's both? TURN ON YOUR MOTHERFUCKING HEADLIGHTS, YOU STUPID ASSHOLES.
no love, Molly
This rant is brought to you by the *black* sedan without its headlights on despite it being raining and well after sunset, if not yet full dark, that was in the lane next to me. I can only be grateful that my peripheral vision raised its suspicions based solely on a vague blur where raindrops should be, barely noticeable in my raindrop-covered side mirror. If this were an isolated incident, I'd be ranting about that dude, not writing an open letter, but I see this every. day. I took my driver's test in MD, is it only a state law there, not national, that you need to have your headlights on if your wipers are on? Gah.
TURN ON YOUR MOTHERFUCKING HEADLIGHTS. Perhaps no one ever explained this, but the reason for headlights is twofold: 1) so you can see ahead of you and 2) so other cars can see you. If conditions are doubtful for meeting either one of these, TURN ON YOUR MOTHERFUCKING HEADLIGHTS. The criteria for turning them on is not night so pitch black you'd drive into a pole without them on, mkay? When it's raining? DO IT. When it's dusk? Do it. When it's both? TURN ON YOUR MOTHERFUCKING HEADLIGHTS, YOU STUPID ASSHOLES.
no love, Molly
This rant is brought to you by the *black* sedan without its headlights on despite it being raining and well after sunset, if not yet full dark, that was in the lane next to me. I can only be grateful that my peripheral vision raised its suspicions based solely on a vague blur where raindrops should be, barely noticeable in my raindrop-covered side mirror. If this were an isolated incident, I'd be ranting about that dude, not writing an open letter, but I see this every. day. I took my driver's test in MD, is it only a state law there, not national, that you need to have your headlights on if your wipers are on? Gah.
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Date: 2010-11-06 02:26 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-11-06 03:07 am (UTC)I can't remember, were you in the car that time Gene drove us back from Marple and we were most of the way home before we all realized he didn't have his headlights on?