yesterday afternoon i was on my way to meet up with my friend Faith to look for some dining room furniture. i had people over the other night, and after a couple of days i realized i guess i’m kind of over the whole “when i have people over some of them have to sit on the floor or in fold up chairs” thing. anyway, i’m driving to meet her, merging from one interstate to another and behind another car. we were coming up to an intersection where another lane merges with ours, but THEY have a YIELD sign. unfortunately, most people ignore this sign and are fine to cut people off in order to force their way in. this can be especially dangerous when those people are 18 wheelers. as we start to make the gradual turn, i see a white honda odyssey coming from the lane that has the YIELD. i see the car in front of me start to hit their brakes, as if they’re going to let the honda in. i don’t like when people do that, because it’s like “why let the kid know it’s okay for them to do a bad thing”….so i start honking my horn. the car notices and keeps going. the van on the other hand also keeps going. she starts driving on the shoulder and forcing her way in. it was a van and there could be kids in it, so i wasn’t going to force her off…she was already doing it to herself anyway. i laid on my horn to let her know what was up. of course, a few expletives flew out of my mouth too, but people can’t see or hear those in other cars. we come down to get on the interstate and i pull along side the van, ready to flip her off (because that’s what i normally do to these people who think they are above obeying common courtesy and the LAWS OF TRAFFIC!) as i turn i see she’s got her 5 or 6 year old son in the passenger seat. so instead of flipping her off, i just kept going. i hated that she used her son as some kind of excuse to cut me off. like i was supposed to just let her drive like an idiot because she had a kid in the car. i’m sure she was explaining to her son that i was crazy for blowing my horn at her, instead of saying “no son, i cut him off when i blew threw that yield sign. even with you in the car i drive like a stupid person.” i thought later yesterday afternoon that i SHOULD have flipped her off anyway, because then that might have been the first time her son had seen anyone flip anyone off, and then she’d have to explain to him why i was doing that. i could have been ‘that’ guy. stupid morals.