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I keep a notes document of things that I jot down as possible things to write about.\u00a0 I do a lot of thinking in my car while driving, so it should come as no surprise that a lot of things that end up on this list are often observations made while in the confines of a car, about other cars or just happenings on the roads.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n More often than not though, life tends to get in the way, and I never go back to any of these topics, and the list just gets longer and longer, and adds to my general anxiety that I don\u2019t think I\u2019m writing enough as I\u2019d like to, and sometimes I\u2019ll audit the list, and scrap a ton of topics into a column of dead things that I\u2019d like to remember but doesn\u2019t necessarily warrant a post written about it, and some I\u2019ll keep as something with no real time sensitivity that I could come back and revisit at a later time.<\/span><\/p>\n It’s gotten to a point where I realized that I had enough car-centric topics to where I could literally dedicate an entire work week of posts about cars, and I figured this is probably an effective and efficient way for me to tackle some of the things that I\u2019ve observed, and not spend too much time on each, because I think I\u2019m getting to the point again where every post needs to be a Broadway play, when I really have no rules to brogging and sometimes need to remind myself that shorter posts are<\/em> okay.<\/span><\/p>\n Anyway, to kick off car week, I\u2019m going to bring up the topic of stickers or signs affixed to people\u2019s cars that denote that there is the possibility that the driver of the car is new.\u00a0 I\u2019ve been seeing these more and more throughout the last 2-3 years especially, and at first, I thought much of it had to do with the idiotic laws that Georgia passed where something along the lines where teen drivers no longer had to do any formalized behind-the-wheel training as long as a parent could vouch for them that they\u2019ve got like 40 hours of driving experience under their belts.<\/span><\/p>\n I mean that alone is completely asinine and puts the fear of god into me when driving around, knowing that some shithead 17-year old whose parents just want them out of their hair and gave them the permission to get a drivers license are on the roads at the same time I am.\u00a0 I\u2019m not sure that putting new driver stickers on their cars is going really help when they\u2019re driving like imbeciles in the first place.<\/span><\/p>\n But here\u2019s the real observation that put this post into motion \u2013 people who put new driver stickers on expensive, fast, or expensive and fast cars, and are most likely not at all new drivers at all.\u00a0 Like, in my office alone, I can think of several cars that fit the description I\u2019m aiming for, that are very fast cars, well maintained and obviously cared for, but I have a hard time believing that the people driving them, are at all new drivers.<\/span><\/p>\n There\u2019s one specific one that I see daily, because they have vanity tags, always back into their spot, which takes a modicum of talent that usually accrued by, experience, the opposite of a new driver.\u00a0 I\u2019ve also seen them drive off, to the capabilities of their car, which is fast, aggressive and like a dick.\u00a0 They\u2019ve also been present as long as I\u2019ve been coming into the office, which at this point is over a year, to which, not really a new driver anymore there.<\/span><\/p>\n There are countless other examples that I\u2019ve seen that served as the impetus to this post, but the bottom line is that I\u2019m wondering if this is a thing now or something.\u00a0 Much like how in the past, people would drive around with the thin blue line stickers on their cars, because there was this belief that having them on your car meant you were an ally of police, and therefore less likely to get pulled over by real police.<\/span><\/p>\n I feel like there are people out there who think that putting new driver paraphernalia on their cars gets them a little leeway from police and that randos on the road will give them a little bit of leniency when it comes to them driving around like assholes, or is like some sort of really bad and lame smokescreen to the rest of the road to where they can drive like dicks and it\u2019s okay because they\u2019re \u201cnew drivers.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n Either way, I think it\u2019s a lame attempt for people to try and have an excuse to drive like shitheads, and I don\u2019t believe anyone is a new driver, when they\u2019re putting stickers on fast and\/or expensive cars, as if anyone would give a genuinely inexperienced driver the keys to Chargers, Teslas and Mercedes.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I keep a notes document of things that I jot down as possible things to write about.\u00a0 I do a lot of thinking in my car while driving, so it should come as no surprise that a lot of things 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