Nothing like having some headliner news come home to roost.
I was heading to Marin from Sacramento yesterday on a road that winds through low-lying marshes, past a naval weapons station and what used to be known as Marine World back in the day. It's a two lane road some of the way, one lane in each direction separated by a concrete berm for the more treacherous parts.
Anyway, it was on that road that a passenger van came up alongside as the road narrowed from two lanes to one. I was in no hurry so I gently applied the brake and generously gestured for him to go ahead.
He hesitated.
I applied the brake a little harder this time, with a bit more of a grand gesture, and caught his eye out of his side view mirror with - what was it, a sense of concern? - as he reluctantly merged in ahead of me.
Weird, I thought. Usually drivers love winning the toss and even charge in ahead without asking. I looked at the tanker truck ahead of him, and back at the van with a Toyota logo, thinking I wouldn't want him behind me if he had a stuck accelerator pedal and if I was directly behind a tanker truck.
And then it hit me why he was hesitating back there: I was driving a Toyota, too.
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