I was riding to work yesterday when I observed a female driver cut right in front of a pickup truck, causing him to drive onto the shoulder to avoid hitting her. This angered the driver enough to make him hang his arm out his window and ‘flip the woman off.’
“Man, that guy is stupid,” I thought to myself.
I **always** smile nicely and wave in a sheepish manner whenever a female does anything to me in traffic, and here’s why: I drive 48 miles each way every day to work. That’s 96 miles each day, and of these, 16 miles each way is bumper-to-bumper.
Most of the bumper-to-bumper are on an eight-lane highway. There are seven cars every 40 feet for 32 miles. That works out to be 982 cars every mile, or 31,424 cars.
Even though the rest of the 32 miles is not bumper-to-bumper, I will pass at least another 4000 cars. So that brings the number of cars I pass daily to something like 36,000.
Statistically, females drive half of these. That’s 18,000 women drivers! In any given group of females, 1 in 28 has PMS. That’s 642. Cosmopolitan says 70% of women describe their love life as dissatisfying or unrewarding. That’s 449. According to the National Institute of Health, 22% of all females have seriously considered suicide or homicide. That’s 98. And 34% describe men as their biggest problem. That’s 33.
According to the National Rifle Association, 5% of all females carry weapons, which is increasing.
That means that every day, I drive past at least one female with a lousy love life, thinks men are her biggest problem, has seriously considered suicide or homicide, has PMS, and is armed.
Flip one off? I think not!