People are Weird

This isn't a grand revelation or anything, just something pointed out to me this morning. As background- my commute to work is pretty much as follows: Leave Apartment comlex, turn right onto Road M, drive for a couple miles, take traffic circle to the right to Road H. Drive down Road H for about 100 yards, turn left onto Road O. Drive for a couple miles, turn right into work parking lot. Quite simple, no?

While on Road M I was in the left lane, and everyone else started merging over, and slowing waaaaay down. This is in a school zone- so I had a feeling a nice officer had pulled someone over. Sure enough, we craaaaawled past two cop cars all lit up, having pulled over a minivan.

I know you should slow down when passing cops pulled over. I get that. But crawling? Oi. I get up to speed again, passing a car or two that apparently can NOT drive 40 mph. (new rule- if 40 mph is too fast- on a road with a posted speed limit of 40mph, you're not allowed to drive anymore.)

I notice that one of the cop cars is now behind me. Okay fine, no biggie because a- I'm not speeding, b- my lights all work (we just had to fix one), and c- my license is clean. Drive a little further, change lanes (because the traffic circle is coming up and the left lane merges right- and I like to do this in advance). Cop changes lanes too. Up the road a minivan pulls out from a parking lot on the left and heads right for the right lane. Again, fine, there was plenty of space.

Said minivan begins to slow down. Yeah, the road is crap. No, really, potholes that could eat Smarts... Large sections of road gone, missing posters have been put up. Most people drive more carefully through this section. The minivan slows, and slows, and STOPS! For no reason. No major holes in the road, no animals trying to cross. Just stops. I pull around and the cop lights go off- for the minivan.

Most people do this in reverse. They drive, the cop lights go off, THEN they pull over and stop.


Oh, and per usual, once we go from Road M (40mph zone) to Road O (30 mph zone) everyone who couldn't possibly drive 40mph before, is blowing by me going at least 40... In front of an elementary school no less!

Friendzy!

No, again, not here. Over here at eoywin's place.

In other news...

I had most of my hair cut off last night. :) So the icon picture is once again quite accurate. :)

It's always amusing to me to see long locks on the floor when I go for one of these "major" cuts. For the record, most of my hair was down to my shoulders until last night. But I hated it and it had to go away. So yeah, much hair on the floor. And again I had a stylist look a little concerned about the style I wanted, because my hair is so thick. *grumble* Thick but fine, and stick straight. I shouldn't complain, but it gets annoying when I take a simple style in and get told that they're not sure my hair will do it.

So it's cut short short, looks cute, and I like it.