People,

So last night I had another cover band rehearsal and again it was a lot of fun. Well, except for a version of "Rock and Roll All Nite" that would have even curled the toes of Peter Criss. Ouch. Anyway, I think it will be a grand old time.

But of course no story of mine could contain only good elements, right? Right. On my way home I ran into a behavior that has always driven me mental because of its completely retarded nature. I am talking, people, about the high beams flash.

I was driving on this lonely, unlit suburban road. I have bad night vision and so I turned on the high beams. I also forget lots of stuff, so I naturally forgot to turn them off when I saw another car approaching. I know this makes me an asshole. I freely admit this. However, the driver of the other car seemed to need to let me know that he also thinks I'm an asshole by flashing his high beams at me when he was about thirteen feet away. Why?

All this did was completely blind me (he was in an SUV, I was in a Saturn with his headlights right at my eye level) and I actually almost went off the road. It also served no purpose whatsoever for his safety or the safety of other drivers. But people do this all the time. Are we all so shallow that we need to do shit like this just to let other people know that we feel superior? Arg.

All I'm saying is there need to be a lot more grumbling without action in America. This would be a much better place to live if when someone was being a dick people would just say to themselves "wow, that guy's a dick" instead of taking action to let the guy in question and everyone else in a three mile vicinity know that he's a dick. Is that too much to ask? And if it's not, can I ask one more thing? I hope the SUV guy gets a two week long case of very bad diarrhea.