Saturday, February 16, 2002

rain sucks.

rain sucks. especially when you have to drive over 17.

i know this makes no sense to anyone who lives somewhere other than norcal, but highway 17 is an evil, evil road. and a lot of the people who drive on it are probably legally insane.

i drive over 17 at least once a week becasue i volunteer in san jose. tonight i was headed to see a play with my mom and spend the night, so tomorrow morning i can pick up katlynn and head back to santa cruz for a few days of waterlogged fun in the non-sun (again, rain sucks.)

so, it's raining really hard and it's foggy taboot, so i'm going about 45 and there are people flying past me going 70... i mean, 17 is a curvy mountain road with two lanes each way, and is totally notorious becasue there are a lot of really bad accidents up there, especially in bad weather. people drive like assholes on that road anyway, but i guess rain just makes people crazier.

i don't know about anyone else, but getting blinded by some idiot in a huge suv who's tailgating me all the way up the hill and who refuses to go around me is pretty damn annoying. and i'm not sure about this either, but i think getting in an accident on a dark, rainy mountain highway would be pretty scary. so why does everyone insist on driving like complete morons?

< /rant >

but anyway, i'm totally looking forward to the rest of the weekend, bowling, shopping, guitar playing, eating out and best of all, no school on monday!! woo-hoo! ;-)

7 comments:

Imelda said...

Highway 17 sucks ... totally. I remember the first time I ever drove it was last September on a Sunday morning so it wasn't really bad. But since then, I've driven it a few times to go to San Jose or San Francisco and it's a pain. This one dude one time had his high beams on for like a mile in traffic behind me during the freakin' day! Anyway, I can understand your frustration ... damn SUV drivers.

jazz said...

hahaha! whats up jillian? we had *sweet* weather in philly today. 55 degrees, lots of people running thru the city in shorts. really gives the city a different, more lovely feel. sure as hell beats standing outside of the electric factory on the 30th. man, that was awful. anyway, roseland rules; your discs will be mailed out this week.
i know you'll enjoy. keep in touch
-jazz

Shawn said...

Well, I live on a coastal plain so all our roads are flat. Still doesn't curb down the number of stupid drivers out there. And SUV drivers, they are the worst!
Just yesterday, my sister and I were out and this lady insisted she had the right of way out of a drive way. Forget the fact my sister and I were on the road and had a green light. Woman nearly hit my just repaired front end of my car. We nearly had a heart attack over it. Then the woman drove thru another drive way to skip the right turn my sister had been waiting for.
I think it's just a law of nature to have at least 25% of a road's users to be plain dumb stupid drivers.

ebin said...

i feel yer pain

tiffany said...

hey jillian :) i just want to say that highway 17 is why we never came to santa cruz. lol.. I HATE that highway.. during the day is bad, but at night its soo much worse. and it seemed like every time we did venture to Santa Cruz... not only was it at night, but it was raining.. grrrr... anyway... :)

donz said...

hate that road. after all these years (okay, only about 6, but whatever), i still hate to drive it...
v. angry today regarding stupid University policy regarding federal holidays, which is, basically, "screw federal holidays." We get MLK day off, but that's it. yep, folks, while the entire rest of the country is relaxing during their day off, i'm sitting in class bored to tears.
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i love my life.
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anyhow, jillz, i hope you're saving time for me next week. think monday or tuesday or wednesday? lunch and movies and/or shopping in santa cruz? or whatever the hell you want to do?
...
ttys

paulette said...

I live in San Jose, and have for about 23 years, and have only been to Santa Cruz maybe 4 times because I hate that highway. People are insane on that road.