Tuesday, January 24, 2006

Don't do it!

I was riding to work yesterday when I observed a female driver
cut right in front of a pickup truck, causing him to have to drive
on to the shoulder to avoid hitting her. This evidently angered
the driver enough that he hung his arm out his window and flipped
the woman off. Not a bad idea considering the circumstances, you say? Wrong. Bad idea. ALWAYS smile nicely and wave in a sheepish manner whenever a female does anything in traffic, even if they suck at driving in every possible way, which in all liklihood is something you have witnessed.
See, if I have to drive to one of our farther clinics, I'm driving on average 48 miles each way, and that's 96 miles round trip. Of these, 16 miles each way is bumper-to-bumper. Most of the bumper-to-bumper is on an 8 lane highway so if you just look at the 7 lanes I am not in, that means I pass something like a new
car every 40 feet per lane. That's 7 cars every 40 feet for 32 miles. That works out to be 982 cars every mile, or 31,424 cars. Even though the rest of the 32 miles is not bumper to bumper, I figure I pass at least another 4000 cars. That brings the number of cars I pass to something like 36,000.
Statistically, half of these are driven by females, that's 18,000. In any given group of females, 1 in 28 has PMS. That's 642. According to Cosmopolitan, 70% describe their love life as dissatisfying or unrewarding. That's 449. According to the National Institute of Health, 22% of all females have seriously considered suicide or homicide. That's 98. And 34% describe men as their biggest problem. That's 33. According to the National Rifle Association 5% of all females carry weapons and this number is increasing. That means that I'm driving past at least one female that has a lousy love life, thinks men are her biggest problem, has seriously considered suicide or homicide, has PMS, and is armed.
I think I'll pass on the whole bird-flipping idea.

3 Comments:

Blogger kinkyrhombus said...

did you do all these calculations while driving?

3:29 PM  
Blogger Adam J said...

yes, in my head. it's not just asians that can do that stuff...

12:36 PM  
Blogger kinkyrhombus said...

i'm terrible at math that isn't numerical

9:31 PM  

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