My first blog

So, here I am at work, with nothing to do, and I thought to myself, everyone wants me to start a blog. I have often thought about doing this but have never started for several reasons. Paramount in these reasons is the fact that I am uncertain as to the tambour of the blog I wish to dictate. I have tried to write something silly, and as in this case, it ends up so serious.

That being said, I would like to discuss Utah drivers. I am honestly perplexed by the “un-written” rules of driving in Utah. As some of you may or may not know, I have a fair commute on my hands; let’s say about 100 miles a day. Really rough on the car- especially since it is a 1999 Chevy Metro with 130,000 miles on it. I think that it is only supposed to last 100,000 miles. But than the wear and tear on the car, it is really rough on the driver.

Let me just explain what I mean with a couple of examples. Today, as I was driving into work, I hit a rough spot of traffic. It was stop and go for a couple of miles. I was wondering who had died, because surely it had to be horrific to cause such a massive back-up. I reached the site of the accident only to discover that the reason for my delayed commute was because someone needed a jump and everyone had to see what was going on.

It might just be me, but where I grew up, we only slowed down if there is a head in the road, and I mean only a head. That’s when started asking questions, and I mean why not. “Where’s the body? Did someone throw the head out of a car or did CalTrans forget to clean up the head?” And even then we would only slow down to 45 mph: Which would get you honked at for being a lookie-loo.

My next, and last, because this blog has gone on way too long as it is, example happened a couple of days ago when it was snowing pretty bad. I was going over the point of the mountain, at a blazing speed of 10 mph, when we really got going, and this little metro I own is more than capable of going 45 mph in these conditions perfectly safely. Now, if your not from Utah then you can’t really understand this situation, but to help illuminate it for you, 90% of the cars on the road in Utah are trucks that are built to go off-roading. Now it was snowing, but the plows had been out. Why is it that the heavy-duty trucks have suck a hard time in the snow? I think that it has more to do with little-man syndrome, and I’m not talking about being short.

Well enough about that. I will let you all rest and think about this for now. I am sure that you will hear me rant more about driving in Utah later. Thanks for listening.