Right, as long as I’m whining about drivers
in the Valley They Call Silicon, let me just quickly express gratitude that
I’ve survived another day of them. Because I gotta say that sometimes I feel
like I’m back in Seoul.
In particular, the other day I was coming off Lawrence
Expressway to make a left onto Stevens Creek Boulevard. That exit ramp ends
with your vision to the left blocked by the embankment holding up the
expressway, so when the light changed to green, I kind of poked my way out to
make sure no one was coming at me, taking perhaps ten or twelve seconds to get
going.
Which meant that I was not in the middle of Stevens Creek
when some yahoo in an Accord too focused on taking a slug from his metal
insulated travel coffee mug to bother with anyone else on the road just blew
through the intersection from the right at probably 35 to 40 MPH (even though he was about to
make the left on the other side of the highway to take the ramp up to Lawrence—meaning,
he was rushing to hit the brakes).
Guy never looked to either side of him—and, apparently,
never looked at the light, either. Just everyone get out of his way.
If the Valley They Call Silicon had a motto, that would
pretty much be it.
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