Today’s entry has been postponed to outline a traffic violation today that flummoxed even a jaded person like me.  Let’s set up the scenario.  I’m on a 6-lane street/highway so there are 3 lanes on each side.  At the stop light, I was in the middle lane with maybe 5 or 6 cars in front of me.  In the right lane there was at least one more car than my lane.  In the left lane was a single car.

Mr. Left Lane Guy decides that this would be a great time to drive in reverse.  Instead of following what we all learned in drivers ed – going to the next street or exit of you miss your turn – he decided that he HAS to turn right at that light.  Keep in mind this is rush hour and I have no idea why there weren’t any cars filling up that left lane but he really lucked out.

So here this nimrod drives backwards to get into the lane behind me.  At this point, several other cars had joined the right two lanes so he probably wound up backing up at least EIGHT car lengths to get to the middle lane so he could eventually get to the right lane.

This was one of those moments where you wished you had the giant bullhorn like Jake and Elwood had in their Bluesmobile to make a public address announcement and ask that guy what he was thinking.  It wasn’t like he backed up slowly and cautiously; rather he gunned it in reverse.  Sure, that might have been part of his rationale to beat out any other cars coming to that lane that would impede him from making his illegal move.  But two wrongs don’t make a right.

You can thank guys like this for your yearly car insurance rate hikes.