Thursday - May 14, 2009

Lots of work to do for the book signing Saturday. Anyone in the Sacramanto area, come on down.

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Turn Signals – What a Great Invention

I can’t count how many times I’ve been driving down the freeway or some surface street and one of you buttheads decide to change lanes or turn and doesn’t use the turn signal. For those of you who don’t know what that is, it’s the little handle on the steering column. You use it to let the other guys on the road with you know that for whatever reason you’ve decided to change lanes or turn.

You have to understand that when you cut us off, you send our imaginations whirling around the possibility of mounting a 50 caliber machine gun to the front of our car and pumping the first belt of ammo up your tail pipe.

In an effort to save the life of you buttheads who forgot what to do when you decide to change lanes, I offer the following insight… try to follow along if you can.

Most state vehicle codes require the use of the turn indicator to signal other drivers of your intentions to change lanes or turn from one street to another.

Now I can understand that there are times when you have to move from lane to lane. And I know that there are a lot of very complicated things on the dash and the steering column that may confuse you… but when the traffic is going seventy-plus miles per hour and you decide to move from lane-one to lane-two, common sense tells you it really is a good idea to let the other guy know what you’re going to do, after all, if your car is 2,000 lbs, and my truck is 3,000 lbs, and you decide to move without letting me know what you’re doing, it’s conceivable that my truck is going to crush your car.