Traffic School and its Students

I went to traffic school this weekend. And it was the right weekend. I actually learned something. Several things, really.
One main thing I learned is that people are not very smart and many of them shouldn't be driving and I'm scared for my life.
So let me tell you about this one lady (I'll definitely have another post about her -- maybe we'll give her a name -- Spiky, because she had spiky hair).
We were talking about speed limit signs and how white ones are actual speed limits and yellow ones are kind of recommendations. So the instructor said how on highways the speed limit is usually 55 miles per hour unless otherwise posted. Or maybe it was 65. Anyway, sometimes, at an exit, a yellow sign will recommend 45 miles per hour down the off ramp.
So she asks, "So, if you're driving on the highway and you're going 55, when do you actually start going 45? Do you put on your blinker and then slow down before you get off the highway so you're going 45 when you get on the off ramp? Or do you keep going 55 until you get off the highway and then put on your brakes and immediately slow down to 45?"
Seriously? She's really asking this?
Thank goodness, our instructor said, "Well, you have to use a little common sense on that one."
No kidding?
I think she's putting a little too much thought into that. Just get off the highway and slow down. If someone's behind you, don't slam on your brakes before you exit. If no one's behind you it doesn't really matter. If someone's in front of you, do what they do or you'll hit them.
And this woman is on the road. She's probably causing accidents every time she has to make a decision. Like when she wants to make a right turn, she's driving along, trying to decide at exactly which point she should put on her blinker, and exactly which point she should slow down to make the turn and exactly how many degrees to turn her steering wheel at exactly which interval. By the time she's got this all figured out she has missed her turn, so she slams on her brakes and reverses back to the turn so she can correctly execute it.
She even saved her photo radar ticket so she could show her daughter how good she looked when she was driving.
Wait til you read about the next lady. Tomorrow's post.