Let me in, it's the law!

It's not legal to block street access with a motor vehicle, for instance when you're driving down a main road with side roads you aren't legally permitted to stop in front of them. Today I decided not to stand for that kind of road blocking nonsense, as I had to turn out from my street left onto a main road that was being blocked by a car. The crossing guards were down since there was a train, which is why traffic was backed up so far, and that's why my street was being blocked by traffic and I couldn't conveniently turn left. I pulled out anyways, and stuck the front of my car in front of the person who was in front of the person blocking my street, which I am quite sure he was doing on purpose. Once again, people will never cease to amaze me with how truly awful they are at following the law while using their vehicles, or even using them well.

Solve this problem, oh, it's only half complete.

Algebra is one of the most irritating forms of math that for the most part none of us will be able to use practically in our every day life. I don't even see how I could use it any day of my life. Now, before I go and outright declare it's useless let me put one example on where you can actually use it.

If you're going on a trip with 3 friends and you're traveling 50 miles in a car that gets 24 mpg you can use an algebraic equation to figure out the money needed from each person so you each spend the same amount and it comes out to be a fair cost for all involved. Gas is 3 dollars a gallon, you have three friends, and you're using 2 gallons of gas. I'm not gonna do the equation but you get the point.

Besides this one type of basic equation every other part of algebra is just complete and utter useless nonsense.

Half of the time you're in the other half!

Statistics is one of the greatest ways of finding out the results of any instance by examining a select number of people and applying that data to seemingly every person in the known world. It is for this reason that there are so many flaws in our society.

One great example is insurance premiums. I am a 19 year old male with a clean driving record who drives a 2000 ford escort. My monthly bill is 160 dollars due to the fact that statistics have declared that people of my gender in my age group are more likely to exhibit risky and dangerous behaviors in our every day life. I am a safe driver who obeys all laws applicable to operating my motor vehicle, the only accident I was ever in was during winter when I stopped and the person behind me failed to stop and rear ended me. Bad road conditions my ass he just wasn't paying any attention. My point is, however, that just because statistics say something doesn't mean it applies to everybody. I believe that for insurance everybody should be given the same rate at first, whether you be a 19yo male or a 45yo woman.

One other reason that statistics are crappy is because of the fact that they often become old and outdated rather quickly. A statistical measurement made in 2005 about computer usage may be very different than those made the next year. Stats don't update every year though so the data isn't always reliable.

Sports stats are another thing that I find very useless just for the fact that people will always perform differently on any given day. Just because all of the cubs players and the team in general had great stats this year doesn't mean that they were guaranteed to win the series. They got swept in the playoffs which goes to show that you can't rely on the stats (and that they suck :D).

I could really go on all day about stats and how worthless I feel they are but I'll leave it at that.

Statistics are awful and that's all I have to say about that.

Turning? I had NO IDEA!

People who for some reason refuse to use turn signals truly do make life awful. I can't stand when there's barely a cars length of space and they come flying in front of you with no warning. Weaving in and out of traffic as if making some sort of 90 miles an hour wicker basket. You try to give them the flashing hand sign for please use your blinker, you get in front of them using your turn signal so that you can show them how to do and set an example for them, you even flip back and forth between your left and right signal whilst driving in front of them and then give them the what the heck is your problem questioning hand in the air yet they STILL can't seem to get the idea through their heads that maybe they should use their signals. I'm seriously contemplating putting a sign on the hood and trunk of my car saying "Don't be ignorant, use turn signals!" so that people will know why I'm brandishing my double toucans. Please, for the safety and sanity of everybody else on the road as well as you, use your turn signals.

Trapped on the road with no way out!

If there is one thing that I hate merely for the fact that it makes no sense, it is random traffic jams. You're cruising down the highway when all of the sudden you're forced to come to a halt, and then you crawl along the pavement for a few miles. Eventually you come to a clearing and traffic picks up again, congratulations, you've made it out of the......wait a minute....NOT AGAIN. Bam, just like that you're caught up in more congestion, no warning of any sort, no real reason as to why it's happening. This pattern continues for a long while until you finally reach your exit and the situation is over, but why on earth did it occur in the first place? Allow me to speculate and explain how I feel this happens...or not. I don't know and I don't feel like trying to figure it out, the main point here is that they suck because they come out of nowhere and bite you in the ass. Random road jams are AWFUL.

Driving: Even idiots can do it!

Well, this is a pretty generic one that everybody can relate to. I was stopping at a four way intersection going south. The person traveling east and I stopped at the same time, and the person traveling west stopped after us both. After the person traveling north who had stopped before all of us went I let the guy going east go first. After he went I went, but before I was out the first half of the intersection the jerk going west started to go as if he was supposed to go before I was. That was irritating, but not as bad as later on. I saw about 5 cars blow through a red light at a four way only because there was a train blocking travel in one direction. Now I saw a lot more bad driving today and every single other day as a matter of fact and that brought something to my attention. Every single person that drives ignores multiple rules of the road. Nobody actually drives as the law states that they should. I think it's just that people are either too lazy to care, or they just don't care at all, and in both cases they're probably ignorant morons as well. Don't get me wrong here, I'm not always perfect myself but I don't blatantly ignore laws such as stopping at red lights. People need to wise up and start following the rules of the road, not for them, but for the safety of those around them.