(Forgive me. Perhaps I am still on my high from Copenhagen, where everyone was HAPPY.)
On the drive from our home to the American School there is a tedious stretch across the vineyards from one side of the 19th district to the other. With "YOU ARE A FOREIGNER" tags on my car, I abide by the posted speed limit, especially through the really dull stretches. Unlike others.
This afternoon, while abiding by the speed limit, I was flashed no fewer than three times by AN IMPATIENT, CRAZY ASSHAT VIENNA DRIVER who wanted me to exceed the posted speed limit. This is not the first or second or seventeenth time, either, that this has happened. But, no can do. I am way too easy of a target for the Polizei who routinely nap along watch the route. Besides, the vineyard view is too compelling to ignore.
Sorry, Herr or Frau €75.000 Mercedes Driver. I do not share your sense of "hurry." To you, and the rest of you crazy, impatient, aggressive Viennese drivers, well, SUCK IT.
Must have been the same guy who cut in front of me at P & C today. I told him to suck it for both of us.
ReplyDeleteThey're in every country I've ever lived in. The worst I've found -- most agressive and willing to scream at you in public - are Portland, OR drivers and cyclists.
ReplyDeleteI sent you an email asking about school. It's totally fine if you haven't had time but, you know, in case it ended up in the spam folder or something.
Portland? Really? I would have thought a most progressive area to be rather tolerant. ;)
DeleteI just looked in the other account and saw your message; apparently the "forward" feature for email is not working. I'll respond later today. :)
I don't have Wiener tags either and have driven up and down Höhenstraße and over the vineyards regularly for years, without ever being pestered by fellow drivers. And I also take care not to exceed the speed limit.
ReplyDeleteI got stopped once by police though: The driver in front of me spotted a police car by the roadside and hit the brakes so suddenly that I got too close and did not follow the Sicherheitsabstand anymore. Police promptly stopped me, but when I begged them to let me first drive my daughter to her bac exam, they sent me immediately on my merry way, without fine.
The Höhenstraße is wide enough for cars to scream past me, especially during the morning, so I don't have any problems up there, either. It's just one more narrow stretch through the vineyards where there has been an increase in posted speed limit signs and the sign informing drivers of their speed, as well as police. Add to that some new construction work and it makes the speed demons crazy.
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