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MFFY du jour
I'm on my way to work this morning, doing about 70 in a 65 in the right
lane. There is a minivan ahead of me, I'm about 3-4 seconds behind the red minivan. Approaching my exit, a large white GM SUV thingie (I think it was caddie?) comes screaming up the left lane from behind me and cuts in between my car and the minivan. OK, so I'm closer to the SUV than I like so I hit the brakes and start backing up, and my exit is coming up fast anyway. Then the white SUV driver decides (she?) is going way too slow at 70 in a 65, so (she?) proceeds to make a quick pass around the minivan and then darts across two lanes in front of the minivan to barely make the same exit I'm taking. As the SUV cuts in front of the minivan to take the exit, the minivan's brake lights come on and I can see the front end of the minivan dip. The minivan driver was apparently braking hard to avoid rear-ending the white SUV. So the minivan keeps going and I end up taking the exit and following the white SUV. (not by choice, but the SUV happened to be going the same direction I needed to go) The SUV is stuck in traffic for a while (nowhere to pass). While I'm following the white SUV, it is apparently having a hard time staying on the road. More than once, the right wheels of this white SUV drifted all the way off the right lane so that they were riding in the breakdown lane/shoulder area. As this is happening, the driver of the SUV is doing something. I can't tell whether the driver is male or female, or what (specifically) the driver is doing, but I *think* it was a female fixing her hair or possibly applying makeup? In any case, it is apparent that the driver couldn't do whatever he/she was doing AND drive in a straight line. I'm still not sure what type of white SUV it was other than it was obviously GM and large, but it had NY vanity plates and the first 6 letters spelled "MARCIA", so it will be easy to avoid in the future. I'm sure I will see it again if it travels the same route frequently. |
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"Jeff Clark" > wrote in message
... > I'm on my way to work this morning, doing about 70 in a 65 in the right > lane. There is a minivan ahead of me, I'm about 3-4 seconds behind the > red minivan. Approaching my exit, a large white GM SUV thingie (I think > it was caddie?) What is it about white Caddy SUV's (Escalade)? Yesterday, I had two encounters, neither particularly dangerous, but still. 1) White with 22" or so wheels, male driver, southbound I405 in Kirkland; can't stand the fact that the guy in front of me is doing 65 in 60, fairly heavy traffic, I can't pass to right and neither can the Caddy. Getting close to Bellevue, passes in the carpool lane, darts right across 4 lanes to exit at Bellevue NE 8th. 2) Another later that same drive, I90 eastbound to Issaquah, changing lanes no signals, eventually ends up in left-only exit lane with left turn signal on (finally signaled!), 50 feet back from stop line: lady with phone to left ear. FloydR |
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