On Rubbernecking Idiots

So some government folk in what appears to be Massachussetts are erecting curtains around accident sites to prevent rubbernecking. Matt at MartiniPundit notes that he endured two rubber-necking issues the previous day. I don't know where he's at (I saw a picture of a cute chick with a sponge mop pointing back to that site--Policy states that I follow the link), but I remember that sort of BS the dozen or so times I had to drive through Dallas (actually that Hwy 75 out around Plano and such). I was accustomed to San Antonio traffic, where you slow down enough to keep from hitting rescue vehicles and people merging due to closed lanes (still a significant slowdown).

Well, Dallas people, as their accents reveal, are idiots. Not that San Antonio folk aren't idiots, just not this kind of nullwit. I remember spending 45 minutes going 5 mph one morning, assuming that this was just morning rush hour nonsense. Except that as soon as I passed a guy waaaayyy out in the center median changing a tire, traffic sped to a respectable 35 mph speed. I've spent ever day since thinking all Dallas-area people that I didn't go to college with, or who weren't the first person to break the sound barrier (or marry said person), suck. Dallas and its suburbs also suck.

I won't go far as to say Dallas is Texas's own Hell--I've been to Lubbock and it's got Dallas beat, and I've never been to Midland. And the various Border cities are certainly contenders. But Dallas sure does suck and there's only a couple of reasons to ever go there.