Coloradan's VERY RARELY use their blinkers. I space it out and get yelled at by my kids but I've been driving in this state for a very long time. I can remember when I-25 was called the Valley Highway. I actually saw a map on Google (which I don't use) that said Valley Highway. Am I ADD, yes.
So I'm taking the daughter to work, which I should pack a lunch because she works in North Castle rock, almost, and this beat up truck kept moving lanes without a blinker. I'm pretty sure that by the condition of the truck, barely road legal, that those blinkers don't work. So I told my daughter that I was letting this guy in front of me because he wanted out of the lane he was in because of merging traffic onto the highway, just like he merged on. She said something about how could I tell that. I told her he was using his new Colorado blinkers.
Yeah, she did the same thing, Huh? I told her the new blinker was: when you see somebody looking to their left twice, or more, in succession that means he is coming over, clear road or not. His head moves at the same rate as a blinker would. That constitutes a valid defense in traffic court, right? "But your honor I looked TWICE before I moved over."
What happens if they want to turn right? They look to the right at least twice or in their rear view mirror at least twice and/or at the mirror on the outside on the door at least twice, again in succession as a real blinker. And then they start riding the line.
If they only look once? They aren't from Colorado. Or they are sight seeing. More than three times? Insecure driver.
Riding the line is an East coast thing. They expect you to read their minds (not much reading there) and to either speed up or slow down. If youi speed up they move right behind you BARELY missing your car. It's almost a PIT manuever.
New word Drining. That's a combination of Drinking and Driving... :) Which I do neither.
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