So I head out yesterday to the Augusta/China area. It's warm, and bright out, and the sun is shining down on me and I am thinking "yess! I am going to get a mother loving tan today!" So I drive along, fully enjoying my sun-soaking session. I then hit Auburn and see black clouds to my left; not good! "Eeeee!" So I step on the peddle to the right a little bit more (sorry officers of the law) hoping I can beat the storm so I don't have to drive through it. Low and behold, the droplets start to pelt my windshield. OK, they are no longer pelting my window as much as they are raging a storm against it, literally and figuratively! So I slow it down, and I realize that I am a little more paranoid than the average person, but people are zipping by me! I start to wonder if they have some crazy bionic eye sight that I lack that let's them see more clearly through the rain than I. And also, what kind of tires do they have that makes them not worry about hydroplaning what-so-ever! It's not the weather in Maine that I am scared of, it's the other drivers that are fearless when driving that I am scared of. I (crazily, I know) envision that this "fearless" driver is going to careen into me as I drive oh-so-cautiously creating my untimely eulogy. I don't even have a child of my own yet and I worry endlessly about this.
So tell me fearless driver, what makes you drive like that?!
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