Perfect, with a sign

Last night, on the way home from class, I nearly smooshed the truck.
Well, something would have been visibly altered in drastic ways, and the
truck would have been involved.

Cruising through a complicated highway configuration in tourist land, where
traffic is heavy and signals abound, I encountered 'Something stupid this way comes'.

A young girl in a little scooty car entered the road from the right (all six lanes of conflicting traffic) and crossed sideways in front of me. She then, against all sanity, pulled alongside another car at a light and stopped. Dead. In the lane of traffic. At a green light.

The other car was waiting to turn left on a red light. Our lanes had the green light... at highway speed.... with heavy traffic moving along..... including big trucks.

Once I figured out what special little piece of insanity thumperette had just pulled, I began drastically reducing speed while searching for an escape other than ramming the little rollerskate car she had just parked in the middle of the highway. The large truck to my right was beginning it's own skidding stop and swerving in front of it was not an option. To the left was a median, and three lanes of oncoming traffic. No joy.

My option was to stop in my lane, without gaining a new hood ornament in the process. I did so.... antilock brakes chirping and horn solidly on while
laying on the high beams... and mentally sending a wish for her future physical well being that involved demons from all seven levels of hell, and a get well card from Mordor.

As I came to stop, and watched the large truck completing it's own slide past on the right. I finally saw why this special little mentally handicapped driver had stopped in the highway, dead in front of traffic. She was laughing and holding a conversation with the girl in the car stopped to the left, and she continued to do so amid the screeching tires, blaring horns, and multitudinous cursing from all sides.

Amazing..... and I used to think Darwin might have been right.

Now.... the bestest and most fitting part of all this? The "Obama 08" sticker
plastered on the back of her itty bitty coffin sized car.

Yup.... That fits.