on driving

in a previous life, dump trucks bothered me. they were always in my way on the road going slowly because their gears cannot shift quickly enough. well in my current life, the dump trucks have been replaced with all other cars. today on the way to work, i got behind a truck, one of those short sport trucks, pulling this huge trailer, the kind that's a ramp. it could have held 5 cars easily. of course a little truck with a big long trailer like that cannot turn corners promptly, instead taking the entire course of the green light to make a right hand turn onto a 2 lane back road which means that the truck and trailer can't drive the normal speed, which means that it took me 10 minutes to get down a road that normally takes about 2 minutes of my time. this is so annoying. once i finally escaped that truck and picked up my pace, a van, one of the vans with the ladders on top because it's a repair man, cable man, ac/heating man type of van, pulls out in front of me and proceeds to go the same speed as the original truck/trailer. 20 mph. this van gets to the light which is green, slows to a stop, and makes a right hand turn slower than my grandma, so by the time he's finally completed his turn and gotten out of my way, the light is red. i think he thought he would lose his ladders if he went too fast. then i get on the road that is actually the school road and end up behind yet another huge pickup truck that is also too big to make turns at a speed higher than 1 mph. in front of the pickup was by golly a dump truck and we know how i feel about dump trucks. so yea the modes of transportation in the area where i work and especially how the drivers drive them really got to me today. on the way home, i was stopped at a light behind a little car with tinted windows. i could see the silhouette of a bird sitting on the driver's shoulder. makes me wonder if the driver thinks he's a pirate and his car his ship.