Hummer Alert

So here I am yesterday afternoon (Sunday, September 28, 2008) blithely bopping eastbound in the CR-V on 5&20, headed for mighty Weggers to do our weekly grocery-shopping.
5&20 is always a crap-shoot. Usually nothing happens — I’ve driven it thousands of times.
But it can. I always have to expect anything.
It’s the schtick we applied driving bus. Granny would pull out of a mall parking-lot right in front of you — “Oh look Dora; a bus! PULL OUT! PULL OUT!”
And then you had to stop nine tons of hurtling steel on a dime without throwing your passengers out of the seats.
So I’m approaching Toomey’s Corners (“TWO-mee”); a major intersection with a traffic-light.
(Didn’t used to be a traffic-light, but I guess the accident threshold was passed.)
State Route 64 comes up from the south, and turns left (west) on 5&20.
There also is a cross-street — Whalen Road — but that ain’t 64.
The light is green for me, and there’s nothing that would trip it, so I’m approaching at about 50 mph.
Suddenly an opposing black Hummer arcs right in front of me; a sweeping left-turn south onto 64 — unsignaled of course.
I stab my brakes.
Sorry chillen; couldn’t see if it had a Dubya sticker. It was going the other way.
I have to watch for followers.
I can’t just turn my head.
But it was probably a macho driver; although it wasn’t a full-size Chevy pickup with a gun-rack behind a Confederate flag, and the decal of Calvin peeing on the Ford-oval.

“The CR-V” is our 2003 Honda CR-V SUV.

“5&20” is the main east-west road through our area; State Route 5 and U.S. Route 20, both on the same road. 5&20 is just south of where we live.

“Mighty Weggers” is Wegmans, a large supermarket-chain based in Rochester we often buy groceries at. They have a store in Canandaigua.

For 16&1/2 years (1977-1993) I drove transit bus for Regional Transit Service, the transit-bus operator in Rochester, N.Y. My stroke October 26, 1993 ended that.

“Dubya-sticker” is a Bush-Cheney 2004 bumper-sticker. All insane traffic-moves seem to involve Bush-supporters. They seem to think they have the right.

“Calvin” is a character in the Calvin-Hobbs cartoon. He is rather nasty. —The “Ford-oval” is the oval-shaped blue Ford (Motor Company) icon. (A variation of this is Calvin peeing on the Chevrolet bow-tie symbol.)