A plea to all officers everywhere

I implore you all, please ... do so many people a favor by pulling them over, and informing them that driving with crap hanging from your mirror is illegal (depending upon state.. I know it's illegal here in Florida). Specifically I'm talking about you farking idiots that drive around with your handicap sticker blocking a good portion of your view...

Let me back up a little here... As anyone that's read some of this blog... I am a disabled USMC vet. I do have a handicap tag myself. I am aware also that having crap hanging from the mirror is also a violation of road safety here in Florida (it's in the handbook somewhere I'm sure).

So why this rant about trying to get you officers to pull over these farking idiots? Well, today I wished there were an officer somewhere handy. As I boarded the turnpike returning from work (which is going freaking great mind you)... A woman that obviously couldn't be bothered to slow down and use one of the booths that had no-one in them because she felt that she NEEDED to go in the lane that's for speed-pass owners ... mind you that ALL lanes, even those with attendants, are speed-pass allowed. This woman attempted to cut off the person in front of me, who of course didn't allow her in... then she attempted to cut me off, and got denied (sorry woman, there's two empty booth paths and why you decided your chosen lane was not good enough for your e-pass I'll never know), she then attempted yet again to cut in front of someone, only this time it was a truck towing a trailer, so she had to wait even longer ... had she just bit the bullet, she might have actually gotten ahead of me before the booths. After the booths however (seeing as the other two were empty) she attempted to speed up and use the lane that was merging within 150 feet, of course, no-one let her in (let alone myself who she tried to stick her nose in on ... sorry lady again... go ahead and hit my car, I'd love a replacement). This time she had to get in behind the guy with the trailer again. Once the guard rails ended, she proceeded to attempt to cut across the NO PASS / NO DRIVING area that is before the merging lane onto the turnpike. This was a bit far behind me and of course I saw it happening... and I was already to the merge spot, so I merged in as per normal, and moved over my two lanes (as I knew what lanes would end before I was getting off, and prefer to be where the fark I need to be well before it's time). I MAY have cut her advance off on purpose ... so might have the truck behind me with the trailer :) ... I looked in the rear-view mirror to see her poking her finger and moving her handicap tag that was ... get this ... in a zip-lock baggie ... hanging from the mirror. She then attempted to buzz around to beside me... where she kept pointing to the handicap sticker ... it was as if she was saying "I'm handicap, you should get out of my way you ass" ... I picked my own up out of my door pocket, and proceeded to point to the spot just above the hanger spot ... imploring her to read it off her own tag... she flipped me off, cut off 3 other people as she attempted to get ahead ... flipping them off when they didn't yield to her movements (mind you her left blinker was still on since she cut across the no-drive area on the on ramp).

Now, for those that don't know, and have never had their hands on a handicap tag... above the hanger (thus blocked when it's hanging unfortunately) are the words "Please remove before driving" ... right there ... that tells you you're not supposed to have this big blue thing hanging in your view while you're driving... and here's this woman driving down the road with a plastic bag over it too for some odd reason (the tag is made of plastic by the way also). She was driving too erratic for me to make out what state she was from originally (but she still had an e-pass so she's a regular at least), nor could I get her tag number to plaster it up for all to watch for ... Also of course, my memory's pretty shoddy and all I remember of her car was that it was white, and the tag was not a standard Florida tag ... and the second set of numbers was 1916 if I remember right ... maybe it was something else, but meh.... the tag was also white as well ... So, if you're driving around Central Florida, and spot a farking woman in a white car with a handicap sticker in a baggie hanging from the mirror ... just move out of the way ... her handicap must be mental, and she's gotta have her space to feel special.

So, now again for those officers... please... I keep my tag down because it's illegal ... and all my family and friends do the same (for those that have them) ... so I know that none of them will have an issue with this happening at all. I feel it really needs to be done anyway... it's a fruit that's ripe for the picking for ticket season.

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Now, as for another type of update ... seeing as again I haven't done one in a while ... My gaming rig is still down unfortunately, so I've not been doing any gaming. But still, I am not stressing over it (sure I want to game a bit here and there, but that's mostly when my girlfriend isn't here). So... not much more to say on the gaming front of things...

My job at SeaWorld is going great ... already have been told by some supervisors that they are glad that I'm there... that I actually interact with the guests, and make their days good as well. I've also applied today for an internal position doing IT work ... so I might be getting off of the rides (even though I enjoy it, I'll admit, it's not great for my back LOL) and into an office working with computers possibly ... we'll see... I hope they at least contact me to get an interview... maybe I'll take some good pictures of my LEGO case and tell them "your questions are invalid... my computer is made of LEGO" :D