I got this forwarded to me in an e-mail.
> I was riding to work yesterday when I observed a female
> driver cut right in front of a pickup truck causing him
> to have to drive on to the shoulder to avoid hitting her.
>
> This evidently angered the driver enough that he hung his
> arm out his window and flipped the woman off.
>
> 'Man, that guy is stupid' I thought to myself.
>
> I ALWAYS smile nicely and wave in a sheepish manner
> whenever a female does anything to me in traffic and
> here's why:
>
> I drive 48 miles each way every day to work, 96 miles each day.
>
> Of these, 16 miles each way is bumper-to-bumper.
>
> Most of the bumper-to-bumper is on an 8 lane highway so if
> you just look at the 7 lanes I am not in, that means I
> pass something like a new car every 40 feet per lane.
>
> That's 7 cars every 40 feet for 32 miles. That works out
> to be 982 cars every mile, or 31,424 cars.
>
> Even though the rest of the 32 miles is not bumper to
> bumper, I figure I pass at least another 4000 cars.
>
> That brings the number to something like 36,000 cars I pass every
> day.
>
> Statistically, half of these are driven by females, that's 18,000.
>
> In any given group of females 1 in 28 are having the worst
> day of their period. That's 642.
>
> According to Cosmopolitan, 70% describe their love life as
> dissatisfying or unrewarding. That's 449.
>
> According to the National Institute of Health, 22% of all
> females have seriously considered suicide or homicide.
> That's 98.
>
> And 34% describe men as their biggest problem. That's 33.
>
> According to the National Rifle Association 5% of all
> females carry weapons and this number is increasing.
>
> That means that EVERY SINGLE DAY, I drive past at least
> one female that has a lousy love life, thinks men are
> her biggest problem, has seriously considered suicide or
> homicide, is having the worst day of her period, and is armed.
>
>
> Flip one off? .....I think not. |
