This is pure rant. I’m pissed. When I leave for work in the morning, it’s still slightly dark outside. About three miles down the road, it’s light enough that you don’t need your headlights on. Still, the idiots out on the road think you do and most of them have their high beams on.

I come across these “special” drivers every time I drive in the dark. It’s especially nasty when you are coming around a blind curve and high beams blind you, making it near impossible to see anything on the road for a few moments. It’s just great that I can’t see the numerous deer and turkeys that love to run across the roads, yet alone any other car coming towards me.

And don’t tell me not to drive that way. There are only two roads I can take. Both have blind curves. I take the one with less blind curves but there is no other way for me to go.

I also despise the idiots who think it’s necessary to drive with their high beams on WHILE THEY ARE BEHIND ME! I mean, WTF? Is it now some sort of law that you need to blind the person in front of you? Did you never learn the proper way to drive?

What’s worse is the people coming towards me that have their high beams on and flash their lights at me because I don’t even have my lights on. Why you ask? Well, maybe it’s because it’s three o’clock in the fucking afternoon and it’s bright and sunny out. The sky even looks like the sky in the opening of the Simpsons. Seriously, why the hell would I have my lights on then, yet alone my high beams?

Did the human race somehow de-evolve in the last twenty years? Has our eyesight become that bad that we now need lights on during the daytime? Has the sun dimmed that much that we need additional daylight see the road?

This doesn’t seem to be a phenomenon that’s exclusive to just my part of New York. Friends and family members in other parts of the state complain about the same thing. I have friends in Nebraska, Washington, Nevada, and North Carolina that say it’s true there too. Maybe we’re all a bunch of whiners. I’d rather look upon it as being superior to most other drivers. We at least have better eysight than these “special” people.

Really, I’ve used my high beams about ten times in the 21 years I’ve been driving. Maybe I missed some new regulation the last time I renewed my license, but I don’t recall headlights 24/7 and high beams 99% of the time being the norm. I think these people are just idiots.