Reason #65992221212454212154 Why Utah is Evil
So Monday morning I set off for the 500 mile drive to Las Vegas. It had snowed overnight and chain laws were up on Parley's so I stuck to the freeway knowing that the shorter route through Provo Canyon was most likely a disaster. Anyway, Utah is always a horrible, horrible place full of equally horrible drivers and on this trip they set out to prove it.Exhibit #1 - Man misses his exit. He stops right in front of me on an icy, snowy freeway and proceeds to back up to get back to it.
Exhibit #2 - Man decides to make a U-turn across four lanes of interstate traffic. No joke, the idiot actually ended up facing the wrong way in the car pool lane. Then, since everyone had stopped to avoid him, he pulled out across all four lanes again and continued on his way.
Exhibit #3 - Bastard runs into me. The insurance lady asked me if I'd seen him coming. I was like yeah, but I thought he'd stop. Since I'd just driven the length of the massive storm that hit the country, it was most annoying that I'd driven through zero visibility conditions for 400 miles on a very snowy road and I get hit when neither rain nor snow was affecting the drive. It was quite sad too since I was only three miles from the Arizona border.
Utah drivers and roundabouts do not a good combination make. And roundabouts should just stay in Europe where they belong because we don't need them here and no one knows how to use them anyway.
On a slightly different note, I totally cracked up when the Las Vegas news was telling people to stay in and not take their lives in their hands by driving in the rain.
posted by E @3:59 PM