Around town

Okay, here are a couple of things—unrelated (I think), except that they fall into the category of what-the-hell-are-these-people-thinking.

First, the past few times I’ve been driving around the Valley and heard the sirens of emergency vehicles, I’ve ascertained what direction they’re coming from and if they’re on the same street as I, headed in either direction (assuming it’s not a divided road), I put on my right indicator, pull over to the right and come to a stop. Like always.

Whereupon, like as not, some buffoon in a Lexus, BMW or SUV swerves around me and keeps on going—as though I were somehow behaving completely unexpectedly.

Is that make-way-for-fire-engines-ambulances-and-cops thing no longer the rule? It was in the California DMV regs when I took my test less than two years ago. Has it been repealed? Or is there an exemption for the Head Up But (HUB) driver?

The other thing I’ve noticed is people bringing bottled water into church services. What’s up with that? You can’t go 60 minutes without rehydrating? (And for the one today who came in late—you can’t go 50 minutes?)

What’s coming down the road—cups of latte and blueberry scones?