Hootin’ Anni’s

Lisa, at Lisa’s Chaos has this little ‘quirk’ of a challenge this week for us with a Fun Monday topic that took a little thinking on my part. Oh ya baby, it hurt; so many ‘thunks’ and not enough time. I thought I’d share a part of American-wide road rage! And, most certainly, I can experience it – not often, but I have! So I guess it’s a quirk for me as an individual. [Insert me looking over my shoulder and making sure no one is following me down the street that I know in blogland.] “I’ve blurred my license plate number today on purpose, even out on the streets!! You can see me, but you don’t know it’s Hootin’ Anni!! Got it? Okay, good!!

Ask Bud; you don’t want to p!ss me off when I’m behind the wheel, and we’re supposed to be sharing the road, equally. There was one time, while driving back from the Stapleton International Airport in Denver [now defunct since DIA opened years ago] – on our way home from a long long and stressful trip with United. Interstate 25 and we’re heading north and west to get out of the Interstate 70/Interstate 25 interchanges. Someone pulled in front of me as I was picking up the correct speed to get to the Northglenn Exit. There was no way I could get around him…it was building up to rush hour traffic. I was really wanting to get home, but I was still very stressed from the flight. Lots of turbulence and some scary moments coming in over the Rocky Mountain Range from San Diego. Just a bad day. The kids were bickering constantly from an early morning wake-up call, etc. etc.

So, then this ol’ geezer pulls in front of me as I was nearing 70MPH [back then at the time it was 75 for top speed limit on the 'fast lane']. And he was poking at 50MPH! To make a long story short, [well, not in distance I tellya] —when I finally DID get around him I was still headed NORTH…I ended up driving at a speed that was something I wouldn’t do anymore, I got the car up to nearing 100MPH on I-25, and guess what? We ended up in Wyoming before I finally cleared my head.

Kids were quiet as church mice heading back south and Bud still tells everyone that will listen to him –”Y’don’ wanna tick off Anni when she’s behind the wheel. Y’never know what country you’ll end up in.” Yep, still…to this day he’ll regale you with this old tale!

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And another thing, if you see me coming, and you’re on the merge ramp? —Speed up. Trust me. Oh and one more? If you know I’m going at the posted speed limit and you decide to change lanes and end up in front of me…don’t make me slow down! I’ll tail gate you wherever you’re going. And the other extreme, if you speed up behind me and I’m doing the speed limit and you tail gate ME —I will deliberately slow down!

So, according to Lisa’s explanation of ‘quirk’ as ‘odd behavior’

—this is totally me. Quirky. But just this one thing. Other than that, I’m genteel. Kind. All and all a real super dude-ess!!!

U R Olive is hosting next week.