3rd Annual S.T.U.P.I.D. Award

(That stands for "Stupid Thing Uncouth People Idiotically Do".)

I was coming back into town the other day, getting ready to cross the first (North) bridge. With all the construction, the two south-bound lanes do a little zig to the left to get us onto the bridge. There is also a third lane and has an arrow, making it a left turn lane only. That will take you down to the boat landing.

I noticed an older lady in a jeep-ish vehicle behind me. She got into the left turn lane about the same time that I was making that zig to the left (I was in the left lane of the two lanes crossing the bridge) and I figured she was going down to the river.

Boy! Was I wrong! She blasted her horn several times at me and she almost hit my back left fender. I kept going, because where the heck was I going to go? I had cars behind me, beside me and in front of me. Not to mention the cars that were coming directly at her! Where the heck was she planning to go? Obviously, not to the river! She swerved just in time and got behind me. As I looked in my rear-view mirror, I saw she was GIVING ME THE FINGER!

I started laughing so hard I thought I'd end up wrecking the car. She was madder than a wet hen. By the time we got to the other bridge, I looked in my mirror again and she was making all sorts of smiley faces, grimaces and moving her hands this way and that. I could tell she finally realized that she was in the wrong. I guess she was trying to apologize?

Giving me the finger? That old lady? Wow.