New England Drivers... or maybe its just me

I really, really, REALLY can not stand the way other people drive. Yes that deserved three reallys. Because I really do. I know down south people are courteous and use these things that are on the car called signal lights. They're there because they SIGNAL the other drivers of your intentions. In Connecticut at least no one uses them. I've actually been beeped at because I used them. I think that there are three types of drivers and while most of us cycle through all three of them there are some who are stuck in their type.

The first type is your average driver, but he is the most rare in all reality. He follows traffic laws, doesn't get angry when someone is driving the speed limit. And gets where he has to go safely.

Type two is scary, they are the type who thinks that because they have never been in an accident that they are the greatest driver ever. They speed, cut people off, think that they are in control of their car at all times. These people frighten me. My stomach jumps up into my throat when I'm slowing because I see theres traffic ahead and I'm going to have to slow and I see in my rearview a car flying up still going at their cruising speed only to slam on their breaks when they realize theres no opening for them to zip in and out of. And then they beep at me for being in their way. All to often I change lanes so they can go in front of me and laugh as they go just as slow.

The third driver is the timid driver. Now while they aren't as scary as the second driver they are probably the worst. They stop on entrance ramps instead of matching highway speed and merging. They slam on their breaks the first sign of precipitation and drive the rest of their way at 20 mph. While they almost always use blinkers they'll forget that they are on and leave them on for the next two miles! Almost every accident I've witnessed occur happened because there was a mouse behind one of the wheels. The other driver was almost always type two.

So maybe its just New England, but please don't honk your horn if I'm sitting at a traffic light that hasn't turned green yet. When you pass me to go slower in front, I laugh inside. And seriously that horizontal lever on the left side of your steering column works your blinkers, use it, please.

Goooooooood morning internetland!!!

I hope to good graces SOMEONE recognizes that title there as a reference to Good Morning Vietnam. I love that movie, Robin Williams is the bomb diggity. Well hello if you've found your way here by accident welcome, I hope you are amused enough by my ramblings to return to see what else my opinionated mind has to put out. For those who've come because I've asked them to, awww shucks you like me! You really like me!

I guess it would stand for me to intro myself a bit. My name is Nicole, I prefer Nikki, or Cole, or as I have dubbed myself in recent years Nikkerz. I am a stay at home mom to a crazy little girl named Amber. I live in Connecticut where I'm married to my best friend who doesn't like the internet so I'll just call him DH (dear husband). I enjoy reading, writing, taking photos of my beautiful little peanut, figuring out ways to get more for less money, trying new things, trying new foods. I live by a rule, I'll try almost anything twice. I added to the try anything once to take into consideration that the first time you try something it may just not have been the right circumstances for it to work out. So from among those various topics I'll pull my info for this masterpiece to be. I'll be aiming for a Mon-Wed-Fri update schedule at the least, and if I can swing more some weeks I will.