Twice a day, we mob the roads. And I bet we could cut those commutes in half, or at least close to it, if we could only do two things …

1) Pink slips at the D.O.T., lots of pink slips. Who are they accountable to anyway? (more on that later)

2) Ticket ignorant drivers who block traffic. Driving is a privilege … do it correctly, or lose your privilege. My years of experience have concluded that drivers who are moving faster than others are usually paying more attention, and not the ones putting on make-up.

Why do speeders get ticketed? Because it’s easy and high-tech. That’s how municipalities make a lot of money. Do you think you’d ever see a quiet, tiny, gray-haired elderly lady being ticketed for doing 55 in the left-hand lane of an interstate? Or that person blocking traffic, deep in a phone conversation, oblivious that all four lanes to the right are passing at twice the speed?

NEW RULE

Next time you get in your car, take a moment to find something. Somewhere, on every steering wheel, is a series of buttons, usually four, though yours may vary. When any one of these buttons is depressed, it activates what is commonly referred to as the horn. I believe the horn is the most underused standard piece of equipment in every vehicle, and out-used by the less-effective finger, probably ten-to-one.

Why? I think that if one person believes they honk at the wrong person, they will have a loony chasing them … such as someone who just got fired by the person having an affair with their spouse.

That’s why everyone needs to use their horn.

That loony would be overwhelmed and would move over into the right lane where they belong, allowing traffic to move along nicely. I also believe chances are that that person wouldn’t be driving in oblivion again. One down and just two-hundred-million to go.

But instead, no one honks, so the traffic jam builds, tempers flair, and accidents happen … not involving the person causing the jam, of course, but some innocent drivers behind him.

Which could have all been avoided if everyone just used their horns, everyday, to let bad drivers know that we know who they are, and their game is over.