No Rules........Just Drive!

No Rules .............Just Drive (humor from a wore out traveler)


Being that I have spent my entire life in California I am quite aware that this time of year we have a surge of tourists that increase the ever populated streets and highways of California. Our state survives on those who travel to visit the vast areas of tourist trap locations. Today, I was rather surprised however, to see such a huge surgence from a state where many Californian's have moved to get out of California and if ever speak to them they have nothing but negative comments to say about Californians. Today on my drive home it seemed to me that half the state of Washington must have been driving into or around California.

In order to survive driving in California anyone knows or should know that you must drive 99.9 percent of the time offensively. Im not really sure when you would drive defensively but Im sure some time in your lifetime of living in California you might have that rare opportunity to actually relax behind the wheel.....so I throw that .1 percent in just to cover that 1 lifetime experience. Washintonians stand out like a sore thumb on the highway. Californians don't have rules. We don't abide by the rules of the road; there simply is only one rule of driving here. Get out of my way! That's it. Plain and simple. Now I'm sure to those who have ventured into our state and find that at times we have 16 lane freeways it may be a little overwhelming. Especially to those from states like Washinton who have signs posted everywhere to stay in the right lane unless you are going to pass. Those poor Washintonian souls on the California highways simply just don't know what to make of all the lanes and where to drive. My advice to those silly tourists...........GET OUT OF THE WAY!

See in California our lives are so busy we don't have time to think much about rules and such, we just DRIVE. We have a place to be at, most likely we are running behind because of an earlier scheduled event that went past time due to TRAFFIC and now we are late. Freeways are obsticle courses. That means yes, we may cross over 3 lanes of traffic without notice to get off the freeway. We may zoom in and out of traffic and even pass in the right slow lane, and honestly we would get upset if you move into that lane because you are the slower moving traffic. And keep in mind....Californian's are notoriously good at creating new lanes on the freeway. Best advice I can give, don't think just drive, no Rules......... just drive, and for heavens sake do NOT drive the speed limit! While that sign may say 65 mph in the city zones, anything less then 80mph is where you might see or hear some kind of foul comment out of a Californian who simply does not have the time to figure out or even look to see you are from out of state. Does that include you Jenice, you might ask? No no no, see thats why I have a fun car, to ignore the silly people on the road. All I need to do to relax in the midst of the stupidity of the California highway is drop the top and Im happy (and in California there is a high likelihood that even while on the freeway you can drop your top...since traffic will slow you down to 10mph at times) :)....now if I can get those fools to stop chasing me down the highways Id be even happier! And one last piece of advice, if you have to drive on the California highways Ill say this: be sure to play Nichole Nordeman's Brave CD as loud as possible. Dance in your car while you drive and for heavens sake take time to enjoy the beauty that is around you!