A particular thought popped into my head today: since every time I step into a car (whether as a driver or passenger) I step out with a story to tell, do I greatly exaggerate things in my head just so I’ll have something to write about on Angry Chinese Driver when I get home? Well, now that I’m back home from going off campus earlier today, let me assure you that no, I do not dabble my articles with bullshit. (You might call my subjectiveness bullshit, but certainly not my facts.)

So it’s another rainy, cold night in the Greater Toronto Area. Coming back home from dinner, we take Finch Avenue and encounter Hwy. 404 (a traffic intersection). In this stretch of the road, there are three lanes going each direction. We have green, so we continue to move as we near the lights, but getting closer we notice a silver Honda Accord coming out from 404 waiting to make a right turn…it looks sketchy, like it’s going to turn out. Which it DOES. And normally, that would be okay (although still an asshole move, there IS oncoming traffic), but rather than turning on the far right lane like any adept driver would, the Accord goes into half our lane and slowly takes over the middle lane. Oh right, did I mention that at this point, we are just metres away from contact, traveling 60km/h in the rain? The car doesn’t back off until we blast our horn, and we would have traded lots of paint if it haddn’t been used. So right after the Honda slinks back into the third lane, we pass it to give the driver absolutely dirty looks (me the worst, of course)…and waddoyaknow, a middle-aged Chinese woman. Thank goodness I wasn’t the driver, or else…let’s just say there wouldn’t be rainbows and smiley faces all around. Seriously, I still wonder if that idiot did it on purpose…the look on her face was a bizzare mix of confusion and perhaps annoyance at us, though I can’t be too sure. But there is absolutely NO WAY that she might not have seen us. We were crossing the damn intersection!! And this isn’t some road in Paris, France…no, this is a Canadian road, nice and WIDE. Which infers that you can’t really understeer a turn.

All this is up for speculation, but the one thing I can bet on is that she is as dumb as a rock, and it’s quite a wonder that she managed to get on and off a 100km/h highway without doing something equally stupid and hitting someone. Unless she did it on purpose, in which case she’s a total bag of douche. But thinking again, I guess whether she did it deliberately or not is irrelevant. The moment you pull out onto a road while there’s oncoming traffic already qualifies you as a douche bag, and having that knowledge and still turning onto the very same lane as the approaching cars is a double-whammy of douche-baggery.

Maybe I’m just an unlucky guy, experiencing crap on the road all the time. But at the same time I’m lucky, because this very crap gives me stuff to keep Angry Chinese Driver running. Oh, the irony.