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.
"Man, that guy is stupid" I thought to myself.
I ALWAYS smile nicely and wave in a sheepish manner whenever a female does
anything to me in traffic and here's why:
I drive 48 miles each way every day to work, that's 96 miles each day. 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 to something like 36,000
cars I pass every day.
Statistically, half of these are driven by females, that's 18,000.
In any given group of females 1 in 28 are having the worst day of their
period. 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 EVERY SINGLE DAY, I drive past at least one female that has a
lousy love life, thinks men are her biggest problem, has seriously considered
suicide or homicide, is having the worst day of her period, and is armed.
Flip one off?..............I think not.