Last week I was driving to school at about 8:00 in the morning. There is this side road that goes to the SFU parking lots that has a speed limit of 30 kph. Of course, as is the case with all speed limits, people take this as a suggestion and go 60. I tend to go 40 – 45, a transgression that has already managed to get me a terse letter from SFU Parking and Security telling me to slow down or they would revoke my parking permit. Of course, I still go about 40, but keep a lookout for the radar van. Last week I had this young woman following me. I think she wished I was going faster than 40 because she decided to weave in and out of the lane behind me. So, since I am not a morning person and can get a tad cantankerous (the reason I am sticking to at the moment) I decided to slow down. As one might assume, she then got ornery. She tailgated, she honked, she waved a certain finger at me. She was yelling. This is a stretch of road that is probably only 1 kilometer. So, rather than follow me for a minute or two, she would rather fly into a rage, instead of just bearing with me. Sure, I was being an ass, but the reaction was just too over the top for me to resist the temptation. She started to say something after she got out of her car (after parking next to me), but then she stopped (I will be forever curious what she would have said, but I can probably guess). When she got to the door of the building, she stopped, sat down, and lit cigarette. Gee, and I thought she must have been late for a meeting or something… Sorry to have kept you from your cancer.

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