Adventures in Driving part 2

I know I've ranted about how bad people drive around here, but I have to add one or two more things.

After Eunice and I left the Saturn dealership, we went to the mall.

Yeah, a trip to the mall two weeks before Christmas. It wasn't the brightest of ideas, but Eunice needed to do some shopping, and I had promised to take her.

On our way there I was sitting in a left turn lane, about halfway into the intersection at a green light, waiting to turn. I moved far enough into the intersection to let the guy behind me in as well, so he would also be able to turn on that signal. Apparently I was taking too long. Rather than lay on the horn, he gunned his engine and made the turn before I did.

Driving here terrifies me. I joke with Eunice about how at least 75% of the other drivers must be drunk, and how I can't blame them. Driving here makes me want to take up drinking.

The mall itself was less crowded than I thought it would be. Parking wasn't a big deal. We did have to wait about 20 minutes to have lunch at 1:30, but that was about the worst of it. Well, that and the line for Santa that happened to be where Eunice and I agreed to meet after shopping.

We headed back out to the car after we both picked up a few gifts. Traffic was heavy enough that I decided to go the long way around the mall, rather than attempt the left turn of doom(tm).

Just driving around the mall towards our nearest reasonable exit, we had one crazy woman turn right from the left hand lane, one crazy man turn in front of us without signaling (or waving), and we nearly came to a 4 way standstill because people need to try and cross several lanes of traffic when there obviously isn't room for them to do so.

It's not enough that the roads around here look like they were laid out by drunken apes. The apes apparently also teach people how to drive.