This morning I got flipped off for driving one mile over the speed limit. Welcome to the state of Missouri, where it is not merely enough to break the law…you must break it with gusto! The state were it is unacceptable to drive less than ten miles over the speed limit and where you are revered as a god of the roadways if you drive faster than that.
I suppose getting the finger really shouldn’t have surprised me, since I really wasn’t making any attempt to hurry past the guy I was passing so the guy behind me could speed down the road. But I figured a guy who was driving so close to my back bumper that his radiator was heating my car needed to learn a little lesson in patience.
