"RoseGarden" - - - - - - - from - nscave

Yesterday in driving rain I made my one hundred mile trip to the Annapolis Valley and back. On the return trip, for the first time in many moons I got upset with other drivers.

About ten or so vehicles back I notice an ambulance approaching with lights flashing and it is trying to pass the cars, which is difficult because of the low visibility in rain, and the hydroplaning possibility. I immediately signal, pull over, stop and put my four way flashers on. About eight cars and the ambulance pass by.

Ambulance past, I pull out and begin following. I could hear the multi-tone siren system from where I am, and I haven't seen an ambulance with any more warning lights. Yet the cars take forever to pull over, and you can't tell me the other drivers didn't see or couldn't hear the emergency vehicle.

With one final car to get past, the ambulance driver is trying his best to get by. But this little blue shoe box of a car won't budge. The ambulance only got past eventually because the four lane highway was beginning. I would assume it was a serious emergency because once on the four lane section, it was less than a minute before it disappeared on the horizon.

Society is changing and the world is full of ignorant eh holes who just don't care. It is rare you see so many of them driving in one line. I just bet if it was their relative or family member in the emergency vehicle, they would be the first ones to complain the service wasn't fast enough.

-=One Day At A Time=-

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