I almost forgot to post this...
Driving home from work on Thursday morning, I was on southbound I-680, keeping pace with the light-to-medium traffic on the freeway. Everybody was moving at a pretty constant clip, between 70 and 80 mph (112 to 128 kph for you metric people). So as you can probably tell, while it wasn't rush hour traffic anymore, the freeway wasn't exactly empty, otherwise people would be going even faster. Anyway...
So there I was, driving home after a long night's work. I was in the carpool lane, closest to the center divide. On the #2 lane (to my immediate right), there was a gray late-90s model Cadillac Sedan DeVille. As I passed the Caddy, I looked over and saw something so incredibly stupid and silly that I couldn't believe my eyes.
The driver of the Cadillac, a middle-aged white man with slicked-back gray hair, had a folded-up newspaper that he was holding with his left hand against the steering wheel. He kept looking up at the road, down at the newspaper, up at the road, down at the newspaper... In his right hand was a pen. He was writing.
That's right! The fucking idiot was doing the crossword puzzle while driving his giant boat of a car 75 mph down a busy freeway! I was so shocked and angry at the same time! So I called the California Highway Patrol. The 911 dispatcher was incredulous at first, but she came around when she heard the anger in my voice. I hope the CHP found and arrested the mofo. He ought to be shot.