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Wednesday, May 28, 2003
Not-So-Fast and Furious
This morning on my drive to work I amused myself by paying attention to this fairly attractive Asian girl (driving a green Nissan Maxima) very aggressively, even amidst medium traffic. As it turns out, on the southbound I-101 in the mornings, the right-most lane is plagued by exiting/entering traffic making the fastest lanes either the number 2 or the number 3 lane (well, carpool is fastest, but I drive to work by my lonely self). It doesn't really matter which lane you pick, because eventually they meet up with each other. I've experimented on various days to see if one lane was faster, but I've learned it isn't. The only real way to get ahead is to "catch the wave" of the faster lane and then change quickly to the other one when your current lane slows down. This can get tedious, and in the end, you might not even make much progress. Anyway, back to the aggressive girl. I decided to chug along and stay in the number 2 lane the entire time. Meanwhile, this girl started off in the number 3 lane, which was sometimes slower and sometimes faster than my lane. Fine by me, but apparently not good enough for her. She started to try the lane changing technique, but unwisely chose to use the number 1 lane (the exiting/entering traffic one) as a part of her path. That lane is subject to slowing down tremendously, which really seemed to irk her. Some of her maneuvers seemed a tad edgy. Two things caught my attention: 1) At one point she was following a kinda slow guy, so she sharply cut into my lane, quickly passed that one car, and consequently got back into her respective lane. 2) Changing into the slow lane, she was forced to brake hard, after which I noticed her tail-gating the car in front of her really badly, probably out of frustration. All in all, by the time she reached her exit, she was actually two cars back from where I was in my lane.
8:46 AM Albert
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..a life in DUO