Driving

[DrummerDeanna]

I have a love/hate relationship with driving.

I'm a good driver, my reflexes and such are excellent - I've always prided myself on that. But I hate driving here because there seems to be some unspoken rule of driving 5-10 miles below the speed limit. It infuriates me.

That said, I do follow traffic laws, except for the speed limit thing which I'm guilty of usually doing around 5 over...but I'll accept going the actual speed limit - it's going slower that pisses me off.

I've only been in one accident...it was recently and it totalled my car...which was six months away from being completely paid off

Other than that I've only had a few speeding tickets, and one for not stopping at a stop sign..in a parking lot. Oh actually - when I first moved to Rochester I got stopped...for turning on red when there as a sign that said not to. I didn't see the sign, in my hometown there are no such signs...I'd honestly never seen one....the stupid part is I did it right in front of a cop. I saw the cop, I didn't see the no turn sign - so I was genuinely surprised when he pulled me over.

I got my license at 16 and my first car was a little hatch-back 1988 Toyota Corolla named Oda Mae.

Then I bought a Mazda Protege - that's the one that got totalled, and now I drive a 2005 Toyota Corolla named Doris. She rocks.