The First Rain

To make up for the complete lack of content in my last entry, I will remark upon the phenomenon unfolding before the eyes of Oregonians around the state: The First Rain.

And, as is the case with so many natural phenomena, people are behaving in an extraordinarily stupid manner. I would have been totally oblivious to this, were not my father to call me in order to obtain directions to sidetrack a traffic accident on I-5 on his way home from work. See, the other day, I was driving to Eugene, and I was stopped in traffic in Salem. I called him to see if he could use the internet to determine th nature of the stoppage, and, in true Milan form, he's taken the idea and ran with it. So, now, he calls me to see if I can find him an alternate route home cause of the wreck.

Well, as it happens, he decides to re-route himself towards 99W and head up that way through Newberg. So guess what? There's another wreck on 99, both sides, and son of a gun, he can't go that way either. So he takes a detour to a side route, Wilsonville Road, which, my oh my, has a wreck too. So now he's plodding through traffic on a side road on his way home, and my mother and brother have decided, upon dad's recommendation, to go home early. All of our plans have been affected by this.

Which, to bring this entry back about, I just want to say, that as a result of the first rain, as is the case will all odd acts of nature, people just flip out and do stupid shit. What's up with that? Why are people such fucking morons? What about it raining heavily for the first time in months upon months makes people think that it's ok for them to continue to drive in the same manner as they had before? It's like everyone on the road somehow forgot that we spend 9 months out of the year driving in the rain, and that three months without it might, MIGHT, cause the oil and filth that normally is washed away by semi-constant rain to build up and before reconstitued by the rain. I mean, this is Oregon folks. This isn't a new thing. It's not like snow in L.A. I can inderstand those people not knowing what to do in a sudden loss of traction, but here?

I think these people think their S.U.V.s can handle anything on the fly. They figure their high center of gravity and low performance tires can handle whipping around corners and that their brakes can handle stopping 8 tons of steel while floating.

Fucking morons. I hate stupid people.