I did something the other day I probably haven’t done for a decade: I gave another driver the finger while I was on the road. That sort of thing is not usually the CEO’s style, and in fact I normally make fun of people who take out their frustrations on the highway. Pathetic folk like that are funny, at least until they cause an accident and kill someone.
I was getting off 405 onto 4th Ave when this peroxide blond-used-up-ex-stripper looking woman nearly rear ended me. Then she starts yelling and honking and waving her cigarette and acting all crazy. Before I even knew what was happening, my hand was off the gear shift and Mr. Bird took flight. The best part of it though was that 15 seconds later with her still behind me and raging, we came to a cross-walk. Buses were next to me so she couldn’t pass. Normally I laugh at the pedestrians waiting at the crosswalk and gun it. Get a car, losers!. Not yesterday though. Yesterday when I saw the folks waiting at the crosswalk I immediately stopped, and motioned for them to go. I waited until they were safely across all lanes of traffic, then spent an extra moment making sure that they were OK on the other side of the street. Behind me Miss I’m-so-full-of-anger-because-all-those-other-girls-get-all-the-one-dollar-bills seemed as if she wasn’t accustomed to granting pedestrians their right-of-way. It’s too bad neither of the boys were with me. I could have been a good role model for them. Except for the hand signal I guess.
