I know it’s been a long while since I last wrote. Sorry to disappoint, you two or three loyal fans!

I blame it on the lack of school and homework; when I created Angry Chinese Driver, it was at the start of assignments and papers. This past spring, in the midst of essay-hell (three of em), I kept my blog running and blitzed through the entire Entourage show — that’s five seasons!

But once the four-month break comes around, my motivation gets sucked out. Looking back to the previous summer, I wrote absolutely nothing between the start of July and October. This summer, I managed to force myself to continue posting all the way until the end of July. It’s a little better, I guess, and hopefully next summer I’ll learn not stop at all.

So expect to see a barrage of updates in the next few weeks. It’s not to say that I haven’t been creative; no, ideas pop up in my head all the time, but they get lost on the way to my fingers. Some ideas have probably gotten outdated by now, but whatever. If you complain, I’ll just run you off the road. (Was that a threat or a challenge?)

Anyway, I’m supposed to be sleeping/packing for school, but this story totally blew my mind.

From CBC.ca...

A Toronto woman is facing several charges after allegedly driving at speeds up to 170 km/h while intoxicated, crashing into a guardrail and trying to flee police on a TTC bus.

The woman was driving northbound at 139 km/h on the Don Valley Parkway south of Lawrence Avenue at 2:40 a.m. Friday, Toronto police said.

When police cruisers tried to catch up with the Toyota RAV4 sports utility vehicle, the driver failed to stop, instead exiting at an off-ramp. The car did a U-turn and entered the highway again, travelling northbound at speeds of up to 170 km/h, police said.

The vehicle exited at the Highway 401 on-ramp before the driver lost control and plowed into a guardrail, police said.

The driver got out of the car and ran across a number of highway lanes, leaving three occupants inside the vehicle. There were no reports of serious injuries.

Police said they found the driver aboard a TTC bus on Victoria Park Avenue, near York Mills Road, shortly afterwards and arrested her.

Connie Nydam, 18, faces 10 charges, including impaired driving, assault with intent to resist arrest and three counts of violating probation.

WOW!!! I am shocked yet impressed. The DVP is the most fun and curvy of all 400-series highways, and the speed limit is actually only 90km/h. Even on my best day, I only managed to hit 140km/h before quickly backing off.

And yet this punk bested me by 30km/h, or almost twice the speed limit. In a Toyota RAV4. While drunk. Plus, according to the Sun, she’s a repeat offender:

• MARCH 4: Failing to stop at an intersection April 28, 2008.
• MARCH 18: Going 75 km/h in a 60 zone, May 16, 2008.
• MARCH 23: Going 80 in a 60 zone, April 16, 2008.
• APRIL 8: Going 76 in a 60 zone, April 3, 2008.
• APRIL 26: Had G2 licence suspended for 60 days.
• MAY 15: Another suspension registered in regards to an unpaid fine.
• MAY 27: Going 87 in a 60 zone on May 20, 2008.

Great parenting, Mom and Dad.

P.S. I’m almost certain all of those speeding offences were dropped speeds…she must have been caught doing at least 30km/h over every time.

Recently, I took a little vacation to Montréal, and it turns out that I way overestimated the aggressiveness of le Québecois on the road. Honestly, I was driving like a taxi driver because I was scared of getting suckered, and everyone must have though that Ontario drivers are impatient d-bags. Nonetheless, it was fun.

But I must admit that there was one thing that made me look like an obvious tourist — the lane that’s big enough to fit two cars, which half the time it did:

The white dotted line in the middle was drawn by me, because in reality there was nothing. As you can see, I’m on the right side, but only because my hotel was coming up. This lane on Boul. René-Levesque does not make sense at all; if we were to say that it should hold two cars side by side, then why not draw a line? And if we were to say instead that it should fit only one car…then why build it so big?