A Considerate Driver
On my way home from watching fireworks on the 4th I met a truly considerate driver. This is a pretty rare occurance in Atlanta. I was in bumper to bumper stop and go traffic heading out of Cartersville. This rather large Dodge pickup truck ended up behind my car. One of those, that has been specially engineered with headlights that hit every mirror you have, blinding you.
So I was holding my hand out my window posistioned just right to block at least one mirror (at least my rearview is auto-dimming). After a minute or two the guy in the truck realized what was going on and turned off his headlights! So after about another 5-10 minutes we end up close to this intersection where police are directing traffic and he of course has to turn his lights back on to avoid being pulled by the cops. So now evertime we stop he hangs back about 5-10 feet and angles his truck slightly to the right so the lights are hitting me directly.
I will never get to thank the guy (he did get the all important thank-you wave), and he will most likely never read my post. But I was so impressed with how considerate he was that I felt others should know there is at least one considerate driver in Atlanta. Are you a considerate driver? Do you have an interesting Atlanta Traffic story? If so…leave comments.