I hope I stop shaking before I have to go to class! I pulled warily into the overcrowded WCC parking lot just after noon today. I managed to get past parking lot A or whatever it is without somebody pulling out of one of the rows right smack in front of me. I went to make the left turn onto the road that passes parking lot D, which is where I usually park at the end of the row right across from the bench at the edge of the pond. So I won’t forget where my vee-hickle is. And yes Mouse, I had my turn signal on. I did not have a stop sign. There was nobody coming from the opposite direction. I had the right of way. So why in the HECK was there suddenly a HUGE behemoth of an SUV heading straight for the left side of my cute little blue honda civic with a yellow flower stuck in the blower? Hmmm? Because some nincompoop of a young woman was RUNNING A STOP SIGN! I honked. She stopped about two feet away from me. I yelled, “YOU HAVE A STOP SIGN!” She gave me a snotty, “I’m sorry.” Sorry? That just doesn’t cut it. Lady, who in the HECK gave you a driver’s license? And do you ever think to look DOWN when you are driving? Because people like me with small, FUEL-EFFICIENT vee-hickles are sometimes down here. And sometimes we even have the right of way! I’m sorry but this is about the third time an incident of this sort has happened to me in the WCC parking lot this fall. Another time, a kid made a left turn right smack in front of me. “I had my turn signal on!” he yelled. Yeah, but don’t you have to wait for oncoming traffic before you turn? How do these kids get their licenses? How can they afford to buy such gigantic behemoths and how can they afford to fill them up with gas? Why can’t people put their damn phones and iPods down and pay attention to the road? Sorry, I guess I’m done now.

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