People are stupid

The highway I drive on to work is generally two lanes with passing lanes on the hills (occasionally) and four lanes for the last couple of miles. Coming down the hill that leads to the four lanes (about a mile of down, then up. Er, in this direction anyway.) I found myself (and the seven cars ahead of me) going, I shit you not, fifty in a sixty. OK, so not that slow, I know. It was, however, rush hour and I was, until this point, doing a very respectable seventy-two. Not really. I was going fifty-nine in the sixty mile an hour zone. Honestly. Really. Anyway...

So down and then up... and here come the four lanes... and suddenly the lead vehicle (Which I could see by virtue of being at the top of the hill when he was at the bottom.) is going seventy miles and hour.

Fifty to seventy! In a quarter mile. I can see from the top of the hill: nothing! Not one damned thing that might explain the speed change. I hate people who do this. I would shoot (carry a LAW just for the purpose, even) them were it not for the fact that they would then present a road hazard in front of me of significantly amplified proportions.

I said "people" are stupid, didn't I? As opposed to "person", huh? So, to justify that, here's another idiot (this one homicidal):

I had the wonderful feeling of finally being in a three way the other day. Turned out to be more exciting than I had imagined. Uncomfortable, too. Back highway lanes were not intended to be occupied by multiple vehicles moving in different directions, I think. Dude passed a car in the Northbound lane at the same time I did in the Southbound lane. Could he not see my headlight in the early dawn (prior to sunrise by a good forty-five minutes)?

Ass.