I got the finger today. Not an every day occurrence, but still somewhat off putting. I will take a small percentage of ownership for the incident, as I was rocking the new Volvo for the first time, so I was not paying full attention to my surroundings. However, I refuse to take full responsibility.
The scene was that I was in the left hand lane of a two lane street heading northbound through downtown. There were also two lanes of traffic heading southbound. Traffic was stopped at a red light, and I pulled up to be about the 5th car deep from the light. What I didn't realize was that there was someone trying to pull out of a parking lot to my right wanting to come across both northbound lanes to head south. The car in the right lane was a good Samaritan who noticed this and stopped. I was too wrapped up in Coolio or some other fantastic song being on the 90s on 9 Sirius station, so I did not notice, and did not stop, thus blocking the path. By blocking Frogger's path in jumping over to the southbound lanes, a chain reaction went off that concluded with a honk and the one-finger salute. Some words also may have been mouthed that were not nice.
As I drove off I started thinking about the social implications of this situation. This guy was focused on saving himself time, rather than just going with the flow of traffic. However, by jumping Frogger style through at least three lanes of traffic to head south, he was causing inefficiencies, and potential safety issues, for many others. Again, this was all to same himself two minutes. Selfish.
In the end, I learned three things today, that guy's a douche, selfish people suck, and Gangsta's Paradise still brings it.
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