Summer Stupids

I have no empirical evidence to back this up but I’m fairly certain that summer weather turns people stupid when driving. It’s probably the combination of the heat and the extra traffic on the roads trying to get to sunny locations, like the beach or the ocean, that pushes the normally borderline moron into full-grade jackass. Lately I’ve seen people drift across lanes rather than signal and change lanes completely; a car double-parallel-parked with its emergency flashers on - as though the flashing lights somehow make parking in a traffic lane ‘alright’; countless bumper-chasers; people changing lanes in intersections; cyclists that ride on the road, expecting to be treated like vehicles, only to blow through 4-way stops; the list goes on with every sunny day. It makes me glad I don’t have to commute in a car to work, and my ladyfriend doesn’t have more than a 10 minute commute either. I think back to the days of driving between Pitt Meadows and central Burnaby every day, and I’m honestly surprised I didn’t go completely mad from the traffic hijinks.