I am CuTRis

I just made a woman driving really mad, because I tend to get on the freeway by matching speed with the other cars. She was trying to keep me from getting on the freeway, and wanted to make me stop until she went past. Instead, I hit the accelerator and I went faster than her, and then I slid in front of her. Oh my she was mad! She was honking, shouting and gesturing. There's a lot of really angry people in the world, who are only happy when causing harm and spreading their unhappiness. They are also often, especially brave when they have a few thousand pounds of rolling metal around them.

I was trying to get out of downtown. My usual way out on Eagle Street was full of cars! Maybe there was a train I don't know. Anyway I went around the block. And then I was trying to figure out where I had to turn so that I could bypass. Then I saw my answer! It was like an epiphany! Follow the mobile toilet!

The photo is from yesterday. Today is far worse.

We're about to set a new record for February snowfall...

Be prepared for the worst, in case your car gets stuck! Always carry a small saw to cut the ice sickles that could be holding your car frozen to the ground!

The new car was unfamiliar to him. And now, it was talking! It kept chiming and repeating, "The door is ajar , the door is ajar, the door is ajar..." He looked at the car door. It was not a jar . There was nothing about the car door that even remotely resembled a jar. It did not look like a glass jar, it was not a cylinder. Yet the car kept repeating, "The door is ajar, the door is ajar, the door is ajar..." He was starting to become annoyed. He wasn't sure what to do. If he tried to drive it now, it would instead, drive him crazy. The car kept chiming and saying, "The door is ajar, the door is ajar, the door is ajar..." Finally, he disgustedly slammed the car door shut in frustration. And all at once, the car stopped talking...

With all the snow we've had recently and the warmer daytime temperatures there has been a lot of melting going on. Just this morning, in the dark, when the temperatures were back below freezing, I was on dry roads until I reached the highway ramp and found that it was covered in ice! My car started sliding sideways because of the angle of the ramp and it was quite an unnerving feeling because of the speed in which one is going in order to merge into the traffic on the highway. Thankfully the sliding was only perhaps for a second before my tires slid onto dry pavement again. Had traffic been heavier or if I had been driving faster, things might have been much worse.

After having tire trouble on my car at night in 3 degrees Fahrenheit, I remembered how cold you can get when you feel chilled to your spine; and how dangerous a simple thing like driving somewhere can be in the winter.

I have to admit on those hills and starting out from a stop, I really like all-wheel-drive.

To the woman who drove through the red light and came within a second of killing me as I was walking in the crosswalk in downtown St. Paul this afternoon—your lack of attention/consideration, almost cost my family to lose "Dad." Slow down and obey the traffic rules!

It seems like everyone who drives is supposed to already know this; but I see people driving every day who don't care enough to follow some simple rules. So here they are, 1. When it is dark (or raining) TURN YOUR LIGHTS ON. 2. When an ambulance, police car or firetruck comes behind you with lights flashing PULL OVER AND STOP. Then when they pass, go back into traffic NORMALLY. Don't try to beat everyone else. 3. When a vehicle is coming toward you WAIT UNTIL IT PASSES instead of pulling out in front of it. 4. Put your phone down. 5. At a Stop Sign you should actually STOP. 6. When waiting at a traffic signal, WATCH THE LIGHT instead of doing other things—so you know when to go. 7. Avoid honking and changing lanes every 4 seconds. This increases the likelihood of causing an accident. 8. Try to keep your vehicle within the lane you are driving in. 9. Slow down. Speed limits are not simply suggestions. 10. Control your anger. Driving a car is not combat. 11. Allow cars...

The Cruise Control on my Ford Fusion has from time to time, stopped working or more accurately, stopped working correctly and consistently. It occurred to me that the inconsistency (rather than complete stoppage) could be due to dust/dirt in the controls that are located on the steering wheel. I used a vacuum cleaner and cleaned the area around the control buttons and the cruise control resumed working correctly. Years later, (recently) during a road trip, the cruise control began to act up again. I repeated the process with the same results. As I have noticed with electronics, etc., dirt and dust can cause malfunctions and cleaning is often all that needs to be done to return normal function.

When my light is green , how come other cars keep driving in the road in front of me? Because if they have a green light too, there is some kind of a problem! Of course, it is possible that they don't have a green light at the same time as I do. So is it that they don't understand the rules of driving or is it that they just don't think that they should have to follow them?

To the driver who was following me so closely (in the dark) that I couldn't see the headlights on his/her car but I knew it was behind me. Maybe you didn't notice, but the road was pretty slippery in places and I had my son in the backseat of my car. So when we turned off and you started honking as you sped away (presumably because you thought that I was going too slowly ), I hope you felt better after honking and "getting it out of your system." I'm very sorry that my responsible driving with a child in my car caused you such an inconvenience. I hope you can see it in your heart to forgive my transgression. You A-Hole.

While following a car on the freeway after yesterday’s big snowfall I marveled that someone could be so dumb as to not brush the snow from the vehicle before driving. Obviously the driver could not see my car behind his/hers with several inches of snow covering the windows. Is safety really that inconvenient?

"Drinking and driving is bad; mmkay?"

I have noticed since the days are shorter and it gets dark for longer, that there are numerous people in my neighborhood who like to run across the street in front of cars in the dark! Don't they know that their lives matter? This morning, in the dark, in the rain, a guy ran in front of my car just blocks from home—I think he was trying to catch the bus that was behind me. I only managed to see him at the last second and slammed on my brakes; in the rain, and he got to the other side without being killed... The image was like I remember from driver's training long ago in the simulator—when a person would appear out of nowhere in front of you! If I hadn't reacted as quickly as I did, this guy may have missed the bus permanently. Stop running in front of cars—especially in the dark!

To all of those angry drivers who are prone to road rage ; the people who honk at me if I try to obey the speed limit or signal to turn. To the guy who pulled his gun out and was waving it while chasing my car. To all of those people who can't seem to remain calm while they are enclosed in a vehicle. Sometimes my kid is with me. Some people have disabilities. Some people follow the rules. If this makes you want to kill someone while you are driving, maybe you need to get some help to address your anger issues.

Why not just close all the roads at the same time? The result of construction closings is visible in my nearly 2-hour drive from the north suburbs of St. Paul to the south suburbs of Minneapolis. Notice the HOV lane on the left. It was also congested. Incidentally, the HOV lane was the only place I saw an accident—probably caused by slower traffic from the regular lanes merging into the much faster traveling HOV traffic. Also notice the signs displaying "30 MPH." At this moment we were traveling 3 MPH in my lane. The planning of this mess was poor.