The City of L.A. has a massive freeway system that is well over five thousand miles in length. You have Vietnam vet’s, gangsters, policemen, firemen, and Mixed Martial Artists that will tell you the freeway system here is the scariest thing they have ever experienced. Unlike those simpleton’s from the east coast, we refer to our highways as freeway’s not “expressways”. The people that use the freeways are dangerous. “Road Rage” as they call it occurs thousands of times daily, and the drivers may even use their vehicles as a weapon. You should never cut off anyone here while driving. If you do, you might and will encounter a response from the person you don’t want. Something you shouldn’t really even care about is signaling for lane changes. No one will let you cut in so whats the point?
Just brace yourself and enter the lane at your own risk. You will always be dealing the person that drives too slow, or the one that is tailing you and driving way too fast, or if you are driving around Hollywood be prepared for the ones that well past the legal limit. Another hazard is “Rush Hour”. Why they call it “Rush Hour” has always escaped me. During “Rush Hour” the cars are moving at the rate of a fast pace walk. If you are using the freeways between 7am-10am or 3pm-7pm you can be assured that the freeway system will be a parking lot. Nobody is moving, drivers are honking, babies are crying, you’ll be sitting there expecting to see Michael Douglas run past you screaming about how he’s going home. After you are done working a long 8+ hour day you have to hit the freeways again and do it all over again. Frightening, isn’t it?
Until the next lesson, “Stay Down”
Reported By: OG DUDE
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