So nineteen years ago today, I was brought into the world. I built no opinions, intellectual skills, or even a pyramid of cruddy diapers. I was just me, a new-born. Now, Dec. 16th, 2007, at nineteen I have done all of those things.
Now for the nitty gritty. My rant for the day is about vehicles with 4-wheel drive and crappy weather such as is today. In Southern New Hampshire, as I speak there is freezing rain, at least a foot of snow already having been fallen, and unsafe slippery roads. I'm a proud Toyota driver, and though I like to think it can do anything, it doesn't have four wheel drive and is a light car so it slips easily. Therefore, to ensure safety to myself and others on the road, I tend to drive a bit slower in unsafe conditions.
However, there are those with trucks and gas-guzzling SUVs with four-wheel drive that think themselves invincible and tend to not drive the speed limit, but quite a bit faster in bad weather. I wouldn't be as concerned, after all, survival of the fittest and if one is too stupid to think to drive safely, then kissing a snowbank or pavement maybe the way one should be positioned. But when one is driving unsafely in these terrible conditions, or any conditions for that matter, that person is putting other's lives at risk. I've had so many trucks and SUVs and such riding my tail in blizzards and freezing rain, and I even swirved to let one by just so I could keep my tail end in place. Anyone out there reading this, please be considerate and don't be so arrogant as to think that just because you feel you don' t need to take the extra percautions just to be safe doesn't mean everyone else feels the same way.
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