Ever since I first started driving a car I kept my eyes on the road and never looked to either side unless it was to view a foxy female for a few extra seconds or to read a road direction sign. I keep my eyes on the road, not on my passengers.
Every time I get behind the wheel and out on the road, I see at least one idiot who keeps turning his head to talk to the person in the passenger seat instead of watching where he’s going. Once, while driving on a freeway, I saw a deer leap the guard fence and come onto the roadway. It made it all the was across the opposite lanes, leaped the center guard median and ran across in front of the car ahead of me. The moron driving that car would have seen the deer if he’d been watching the road instead of driving with his head to the side and his lips flapping away at the person next to him.
So when he smashed into the deer and pulled over to the side to inspect the damage to his car, I pulled over to inspect the damage to the deer. It was pretty extensive and the deer was clearly dying, and all this jerk could do was cry and whine about his bent up front end and cuss away at the dying deer, like it was the poor deers fault. If he’d been watching where he was going instead of being a danger to everyone and everything on the road, the deer and his car would have been just fine.
Just because the person next to you wants to yak away at you instead of letting you concentrate on your driving does not mean that you’re obligated to focus on this inconsiderate blabbermouth instead of the road. It is your job to avoid road hazards, not the hazards job to avoid you!
I realize that this is outside my normal scope of rants but the dunderhead I saw today in front of me, speeding up, slowing down, as his attention to what he was supposed to be doing competed with his desire to stare into the eyes of his companion, was a bit much. I knew that when I came home I would have to post on this, and there you have it.