The semi or the cel phone

[ericcoleman]

Ok, the winner last week was Space is deep, you are not.

This week is a little closer to home. Real close actually ...

I am about a mile from home heading to work. Coming up is an exit and a entrance onto the highway. Behind me are several cars a half mile or more back. In front of me is a semi. There are 3 vehicles coming down the entrance ramp, two cars and an SUV in the lead. I back off a little to give the semi some room to move over so he dosn't drive any cars into the ditch, assuming they are not bright enough to slow down some or speed up a lot. The back two cars slow down. The front SUV keeps going. The semi keeps going until finally the SUV runs right onto the shoulder.

Now normally I would feel bad for the driver of the SUV, being driven off the road. But when I came up alongside her I see why she had driven in such a clueless manner. She was chatting away cheerfully on her cel phone.

So, who wins. The semi who wouldn't move, or the dingbat who wouldn't watch what was going on?

Comments

[darkwing830.livejournal.com]

Neither...both lose...geeze..

[lisagems.livejournal.com]

actually, the semi wins. the semi always wins. it's just a matter of more structural steel.

This doesn't mean the semi *should* win. It just does.

[bibliofile.livejournal.com]

My thoughts exactly. And by the same reasoning, pedestrians almost always lose.

I agree.

[daddy-guido.livejournal.com]

Order of highway dominance:
Trains, freight
Trains, passenger
Heavy construction equipment (see TEREX TITAN)
Semis
Large SUVs / Vans
Cars, built in the 70's or earlier
Small SUVs/Minivans
Cars, large
Cars, medium
Cars, Small
Motorcycles
Pedestrians

Re: I agree.

[lisagems.livejournal.com]

Don't forget, he who has the nicer paint job loses.