Funny that we both posted about driving/drivers today.

teh Big SOul Sucking Project soudns like.......it will suck. Ha. Ha. I make myself laugh!

You should really consider a career change and do stand up comedy. Laughed so hard!

BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!

Inspired by all of your great photos I've started carrying my digital point & shoot along with me in the hopes of capturing some great moments for my blog - now I may need to get a larger purse.

Hey, Laurie, be careful - don't get shot for shooting!

I'm sure you're a fantastic and safe driver - but:

http://www.duiblog.com/2005/04/04

That wasn't Mr. X in the Ferrari was it? There goes your settlement...

June... I should point out that I was in literally stock-still traffic. Out here it's so crazy, you can be in your car just idling for about ever. And it gets boring being in neutral. So you know, camera time!! I didn't get a pic of the mercedes accident because at that point traffic was moving a little tiny bit.

Crystal, I miss you.

Because, really, I am a good driver! Except when I'm talking. Or sleepy. Actually, I hate to drive. And I will do about anything to get out of driving. So, I probably am a bad driver. But anyway. I'm a good picture taker! That has to count for something!

I am sending you an email - I am going to type it right now!

Damn, I miss L.A.

Laurie! You can knit while you're sitting in traffic! I do this all the time and my drive to work is only 10 minutes long! That's why God (Jesus, the Holy Spirit, whatever) invented red lights and traffic jams: Knitting and makeup application.

Just make sure whatever you're knitting can be dropped in your lap at a moment's notice. Also - don't use small super-pointy metal needles as you will be the talk of the emergency room if you get in a traffic accident.

Try changing your clothes in traffic - its fun, exciting, and you get to flash your boobies at truckers.

hey, i have a kodak easyshare too! my friend just bought a really pretty blue (BLUE!) pentax that is the size of a credit card (well, not my credit card cuz mine is pretty loaded, if you know what i mean?) and i was beginning to think that i owned the world's largest clunkiest but still really great digital camera...

s'good to know i am not the only one...lol...

and i SO want to take pics of drivers now...for a small, not-so-populated city like edmonotn we actually do have some of the worst drivers...do not be a pedestrain here...or a cyclist or a jogger or really even a driver...take the bus everywhere...you should be able to stay alive that way...maybe/maybe not! ps-i drive because the transit system sucks! what can i say?

oh crap, i meant edmonton...i almost spelled it wrong again...argh!

I know you don't believe in guns, but really they do exist. ;)

Would love to see the shot of you at sea world. hee hee.

Oh, I laughed out loud! Do you think someone will recognize the guy picking his nose? lol

Traffic sucks. Good thing you had your camera with you to amuse yourself...and us!:)

Just found your blog - Really good stuff. I moved back to the South from California a little more than a year ago, and this post gives me flashbacks. This one and the one about the crackhead neighbors burning down their house.

I'd tell you that you need to move back home to the land of the sane (well, insane but more likeable), but 1) I don't like to give unsolicited advice (ha!), and 2) I'd miss reading about all the wackyness in LA.

I hope that things only continue to improve for you and your new life out there. And, for god's sake, don't forget to add the lemon to your sweet tea.

Oh I'm just impressed your a fellow Jeep Wrangler drive, I love my Jeep.

I knit in traffic too. I started and finished a hat once on a drive from Boston to NY. That equals over 1.75 hours of traffic on that trip. Backups on the Tappen Zee Bridge suck. I'll have to keep my digital camera handy during my next drive.

Love you Raurie. Just love ya.

Dude! (hehe) I didn't know other people took pictures in traffic too! I've also been known to take pictures of bridges I'm driving on (you know, the cool ones with those thingies overhead) and of fog, other cars..u know, basic scenery. :) I'm also a safe driver and don't swerve and have never been in an accident. *knock on wood* I never put my eye to the camera, I just point and shoot and hope it turns out for the best.

I love driving, but dammit, the traffic here drives me crazy. My commute should only take a half hour but it normally takes 45 minutes, and sometimes an hour and fifteen minutes. Why? Because people are idiots! Oh, don't get me started. I could really rant on and on...

Traffic is #1 on the list of things I won't miss about LA :)

SNB tomorrow!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I am personally for free speech on your bumper/back window. It helps you identify the crazies, and who need to be scowled at or given the thumbs up when you pass them. And I have seen that “Jesus is God. Read the Bible” on the road around here. Wonder if it was the same SUV? Growing up in Catholic School was confusing on many counts, but that whole holy trilogy thing is just a mind fuck (can I say that here) at that age. God is Jesus is The Holy Spirit, all the same thing? How can that be?

BWAAHAHHAAAAHHAAAAAA! Those are great photos! I got a great short film that you should see about a bad commute on the 405. I'll try to send it.

Do you know how many times I have wanted to do this? When you sit in traffic for X number of hours, the thought of blogging about it comes to mind. Good for you making a terrible traffic experience a great laughing experience...

oh man thats classic stuff. especially "I thought Jesus was the SON of God?" and "I will photograph you looking at your own booger.". Have to love it.

So funny!

Tee hee! Too awesome.

And driving the 405 through Irvine is no picnic either, let me tell you.

Dear Dr. Laurie: I drive a green Saturn - I would love to know, what does that says about me? I drive the speed limit with both hands on the wheel. Am I a geek? PS: I do not participate in public booger-picking.

The small penii out here in New Mexico drive Hummers.

dumb sh*ts.

Thanks for a laugh this afternoon!

small penii in new england also drive hummers...fuckers

by the way, this morning the traffic was pretty bad here and i knitted in the car.

All right, lay off on the Ferraris, y'all! Not just because I'm a girl and love cars and therefore want to automatically love any BOY who loves cars...

But for scientific reasons:
a) It's a well known fact that any fresh college graduate with a hard-earned "technology" degree, i.e. computer science or any kind of engineering, and some of the harder sciences, will, upon receipt of a shiny new well-paying job, buy themselves a shiny high-priced car.
b) All of these shiny new graudates with shiny high priced cars can't possibly, statistically, all have small penisis, and
c) I've PERSONALLY known some who didn't. :)

Another great blog entry. Please don't ever go away. You inspired me to get my blog up and running but 1)I'm bone lazy when it comes to writing and 2) I'd much rather read your entertaining blog than write my boring one, so all it has is one entry with pictures of my cats.

Yeah, first thing that flashes through my mind when I see those overcompensating Ferari drivers..."hey dude! sorry about you PENIS!" Every once in a while my inside voice becomes my outside voice.

What I hate? Is the jackholes that flirt with you in bumper-to-bumper traffic. What do they expect to hear? Ok, buddy, you're on! I've got 5 minutes to kill...

I hate traffic. I hate driving in traffic. Maybe should take the camera with me. I take lots of pics from the car when travelling (nb much easier when you travel with someone but hasn't stopped me taking REALLY bad shots at 60mph that do't even show the subject...)
Do ferraris, mercedes and BMWs come with indicators there? They seem not to have them here. I think the indicator stalk must be removed to "cut costs."

Reminds me of the joke:

"Whenever I see a guy in huge SUV, I just want to say, 'Dude... Sorry about the penis, man.'"

Say that to myself a lot in the car.

You are a riot and I look forward to reading your blog every day!!! keep on truckin'..or postin' or clickin' the pics..!

I too took photos today of traffic, only all I had was my cell phone camera. I wish I could of got of the oriental gal behind me that would leave 6" between us, no matter if we were stopped or going 25 mph. Maybe us knitters should all carry cameras and take pics of the idiot drivers out there. We could get bumper stickers to identify ourselves. Any ideas???

Hey! I leave a big space like that when I drive, too, no matter what speed... because you just never know what kind of crazy shit the nose-picking idiot in front of you is going to pull. (Oh dear, I don't mean to imply that you, Karyn, are a nose-picking idiot! And if you had a "knitblogger with camera - behave yourself" bumper sticker I'd know that for sure in a 2-second glance!)

Ohhhhh, I just realized that you meant six INCHES, not six FEET! But I know some people do consider six inches to be a big space... especially in L.A.

I also take pictures while driving! I also have no patience for traffic! I also am the last good driver left in Sacramento!

I wish I could commute. Sigh.

You MUST be a good driver to be able to snap photos and drive at the same time *wink wink*
Now the real question....what did the guy do with the boogers he picked?!

Laurie Dear,
You must have the most popular blog on the net! You receive so many comments!!! I'm a SoCal native, so I'm used to traffic. Like Minou's Aunt, I also knit in traffic. I've tried crocheting, but I have to look down too often and this could be hazardous. One of my friends has a sure-fire way to get back at people who cut you off in traffic. Instead of flipping the bird, just point at them and laugh with your mouth wide open!!! It unnerves 'em.

I have to live vicariously through your blog, since I don't have one of my own. I have a friend who literally burned out his digital camera because he took so many pictures -- I think over 10,000 at one point. Mine is too heavy to carry everywhere, so I am lusting for one of the credit card sized ones.

Cause i need to spend $500 on something to capture my knitting projects & my cats.

Didn't we all have a really bad perm at some point in the eighties? Mine made me look like Annie - quite unfortunately timed, too... when Annie was in the theaters... at the beginning of the school year. Yep, the therapist bill is in the mail, indeed!

oh wow, i do that too! i take pics of the nose-pickers and makeup-appliers, and all the other fun people, but the best are the ones who get really really into their car-singing (using a cell phone or coffee mug like a mic!). i don't even have to watch american idol anymore, i can just see some guy in an suv singing his heart out to 80's power ballads!

Girl, you are like the Energizer Bunny when it comes to funny takes on the craziness of LA life!! I have to say I'm astonished you didn't have any pix of Beemers. In my experience they are even more arrogant than Mercedes drivers (what the heck is the plural of Mercedes, anyway?) and will just about run you off the road at every opportunity. And 'Mr. I Got a Hot Car but Just a Li'l Weenie' - that's hysterical!! Wonder how many months he gets between tuneups, since he sure can't be getting that monster out of second gear much, not in LA traffic!!

Thank you for the laugh... I'm the the throes of misery; my sweet little chinchilla died today. I needed something to snort about! We've got all these guys up here in Northern CA too, alas.

I now have a bigassgrin on my face. Mille Grazie Bella!

In part I'm relieved I now longer have to deal with The Commute but then I just upgraded for crazy Sicilian Drivers. Wonder if a camera would make a difference come to think of it.

The worse bumper sticker I've ever seen was during the election, it said OUR BURNING BUSH IS IN THE WHITEHOUSE! Talk about sacriligeous!!

Omg you so crack me up!! We may be moving out to LA one day, and I'm learning a lot about the traffic from this blog. LOL

I see you are a Jeep girl too. Gotta love those Jeeps. Do you get the "Jeep wave" too?

You are too funny. Bad drivers make me crazy. I try to tell myself things, like they're doing their best or I shouldn't hate people for such silly things, but sakes!! You're so right about sports cars...MMM, guys with trucks.

hey, yeah, WORD...especially about the red Ferrari. What is up with that crap? I have a really great husband (who I call He Who Wears Versace), but let me tell you, as cool as he is, he still slobbers at those stupid cars. I am telling you, you hit it right on the head. I commuted for about 15 years and then I wised up and got pregnant. Now I get to avoid traffic for another two years or so...It took HWWV about 2 hours to get from L.A. to Westlake today, and this was before 5:00...aye aye aye aye.

That stretch of freeway like totally sucks dude!

I have always always always wanted to do that! I want a hall of shame on the internet for bad drivers (and general dumbasses as well).

Way to go. Laurie, you are awesome. Thank you!

I love reading your blog. I'm in rural NC, and I now want to take pictures of the tractors I pass on the way to work (like the one this morning that tried to run me off the road...)

But, I was thinking back to a blog from a while back when you mentioned that people in the South talk about you to keep you in line. My boss was just commenting about how each year they put your name in the newspaper if you don't pay your property taxes. Well, you KNOW what happens then: after Sunday dinner everyone sits around at Grandma's house (sipping sweet tea, with lemon) having a conversation about how you seemed to be doing well. Since you moved up-town n'all, but its a shame you can't pay your taxes on that big fancy house, (doesn't it remind you of Tara?) And what would your mother say?!?!?!?!?!?

A friend of mine, years ago, used to pick out HUGE, glittering, tricked out trucks and purty sparkling Ferrarris, point, then actually lean out the window (while we drove down the freeway) and yell, "sorry about your penis!"

I'm not quite as brave, but I still poke my hubby and say the same thing whenever we see someone compensating ;-)

hahahhaha, i love it.la is horrible to drive in

This post made me laugh so hard! I can actually picture you in your Jeep taking pictures of all the road-ragers on the 101!! What makes me laugh even more is when I picture the expression on these people's faces if they were to see you taking a picture of them...do they see you taking pictures of them?

I guess I'm lucky - I take the 134-210 to work.

I'm dying laughing. Maybe I should do that on my way to work. Oh wait, I need to actually buy a good digital camera one of these days. I have a really, really, really OLD one.

I wish I'd had my camera on Tuesday when traffic around UCLA was worse than...well, worse than usual. I actually saw some guy gesturing to the car trying to get in front of him "Here? You want in here? No!"

Picture me amazed.

Love your blog, always makes me laugh.

And if someone tailgates you, wash your windshield. Theirs might need to be cleaned too!

Check this out....

http://fanzone50.com/Naveen/

Hilarious, as always. Re: wienermobiles. The proof that he's a dick (well, at least figuratively) is that he's driving a FERRARI in zero-mph traffic. Where there are a gazillion other ass drivers and the likelihood of dents or substantially worse is sky-high. Umm, 'scuse me, I thought this was an open-road kinda car, which you drive where nobody else is around? We saw one the other day cruising nonchalantly at 20 miles an hour around our little New England suburb and looked at each other and said, why would you even bother to do that in West Hartford?

Mommy ws takin gpicture on the freeway the other day too - Probably THE EXACT SAME ONE!!!!! Freaky eh? You'll get to see the pictures when we get back...

Okay, so it's been a while since I've been in a church, but technically, Jesus is the *son* of God, right? Sheesh, if you're going to put a bumper sticker on your car, at least make sure it is accurate.

Great blog!