Today's Idiot!

Hello everyone, today's installment stems from the fact that we experienced a little ice storm in our area. This amounts to several hours of ice pellets and freezing rain dropping throughout the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) . Now, it is not like we were not given fair warning and not like we did not have time to prepare and adjust. Some of us simply got a late start out (like TC and myself) so we got caught up in the mire. As a result, our usually sombre 40-60 minute ride in to her school (she still goes to her old school in East York though we have moved to Ajax) was more of a 2.25hr exercise this morning. Tack on another 40 minutes or so to continue up north on Birchmount in Markham for me to finally arrive at work sometime after 11; just in time to start my lunch prepared by my lovely wife, DW. The journey home will begin with me leaving work around 2PM to ensure that I pick up the child as school lets out. We have two errands to complete before heading home in what will surely be more of the same as the forecast is for further wet snow to fall this afternoon. Sigh.

Anyhow, today's idiots (yes, plural) come in both the moving and unmoving kind. On the moving front, it never fails to amaze and puzzle me that people with some resemblance of intelligence still have no clue about the dynamics of a motorized vehicle. Simple things like stopping distance with relation to mass and speed (also know as the "holy shit, I hope I can stop before I hit him" factor). There there is the coefficient of friction (also know as the "holy shit, four-wheel drive does not mean I can turn on a dime on ice" factor). Even worse are those without four-wheel or even all-wheel drive that insist on driving like they have it, on all-season tires, weaving between traffic to get those two extra seconds ahead in the middle of a traffic jam.

Let's review. An accident is something that happens that was unforeseen and typically unpreventable. Someone going off to work in the morning, with no weather forecast alerting one to any issues, skidding off the road due to black ice is an accident. The morons who ended up in ditches this morning, snarling already bad traffic, because their bitch-asses were too lazy to get out of bed earlier so now they are driving well above the speed for the conditions and their vehicle are not accidents. Nope, those incidents are prime examples of why people held up by these idiots should be allowed to get out of their vehicles and lay open a can of whoop-ass on these mental midgets while the po-po holds them down.

Now, for the idiots of the non-moving kind. Having successfully traversed the city (including several sliding incidents of my own due to the need for a change in tires and possibly brakes on TR), I pull into the driveway at work expecting there to be no spaces open anywhere near the front door. To this fact I was correct but no because the parking lot was full (which it was) but because the mental midgets working in this establishment decided that since there was snow on the ground and the lines were not visible, there was no possible way they could be expected to come up with a reasonable estimation of the width of a f**king parking space!! Unbelievable people!! I swear if there was not surveillance around, I would have Scarborough-style keyed every last one of the offenders. It is simply ignorant, selfish and downright rude and unmannerly to take up two or more spaces simply to accommodate your convenience or, realistically, lack of driving skills. If you cannot drive properly in this weather, don't f**king drive period!!

Oh yeah, the usual rant about asswipe pedestrians crossing on the red and in the middle of the road with several tons of metal and plastic sliding towards them.

Idiots!