People in Glass Houses Should Put Their Names and Phone Numbers on Them

Ahhhhhhh, technology.

I was driving to Kinko's today to drop off a project to be copied. Along the way, I was being tailgated by a Ford Explorer. When we stopped at a stop light she came so close to me that the arms of my bike rack were almost touching the top of the Explorer's hood.

Eventually, the Explorer slid out without signaling into the next lane and started to pass me. We came to another stop light and she couldn't actually be bothered to stop. Slowly she edged out into traffic waiting for the light to change. When it finally did, she peeled out and started weaving through traffic, without signaling again.

As the lanes when from four down to one, I found myself behind her at a stoplight again. That's when I noticed that she had a magnet on her car. She's a Realtor. Her name and phone number are on her car. She peeled out of the stoplight and and sped down toward a school zone.

So I called her on the number on her car.

"Hello, this is XXXXXX."

"Hi XXXXX," I said. "I just thought I'd suggest that if you were to speed and weave through traffic perhaps it's not a good idea to have your name and number on your car."

"I . . . " she said and hung up.

I didn't see her again but, I hope she's at least driving a little bit saner now.