Driving home last night after dinner at the boss' house on Beltway 8, which is a toll road ring around Houston and part of a larger toll road system. Very Autobahn-like. The best part is that every 10 miles or so you fork over $1.25 or $1.00 if you have an EZTag. EZTag is the same as a TollTag, TXTag, EZPass, etc in other parts of the country. Only you blow through the toll at whatever speed possible, and at night that's about 80 MPG.
Not last night.
Now, those of you who know me know that I generally have no problem with anybody go goes against the dominant cultural, political, whatever, grain. Sometimes, that's me. Last night it was not.
Anyway, so I'm hauling ass to get home to take the dogs out, cruising at 80 +/-, headed right for the huge, wide-open lanes. Like everybody else. Going with the flow. Doing what I am supposed to. And then this fucking idiot about 5 cars ahead of me SLAMS on the brakes, and decides to STOP in the EZTag lane and BACK UP... guess they did not have a toll tag... and those of us stuck in the goat-rodeo lane are flanked on both sides by vehicles hauling ass through at 60 (people tweaked at the guy backing up so they "slowed down"). This fucker nearly killed us all. To avoid an $18 fine.
Bad Driver Human! No reproductive opportunities for you!
The truly disappointing thing is that they were not driving something to match their sheer idiocy like a Hummer. Damn. Would have like to rant about that too. Maybe another day.
Goat Rodeo, I love that term.
Hey, it's FRIDAY! Yay!