Driving in Los Angeles has been called a lot of different things, but boring isn't one of them.Here's Super Mom driving her newer silver-grey Mercedes E350 in the number 1 fast lane on the 405 freeway SB approaching Sunset Blvd off-ramp. Traffic was flowing amazing quick for this time of day. I was driving a few cars behind her in the number 3 lane at a brisk 60 mph.
All of a sudden, traffic ahead of me started to hit their brakes hard. Red lights lit up faster than dusk on a Saturday night in Amsterdam. Some tires screeched and rubber was laid to pavement as dozens of cars tried to stop. Fortunately, it didn't appear that any bumper tagging occured.
As I crept forward, I was passed the offending instigator - the silver-grey Mercedes Super Mom was driving was at a full halt haly way between lanes 1 and 2. The car was slightly sideways and their were skid marks trailing the Mercedes to where it stopped.
In one hand Super Mom held a cell phone as she yelled into it and at her very young child in the back seat jumping in and out of car seat. In her other hand she was holding a large paper Starbucks coffee cup in a paper sleeve.
It appeared that the loose kid in the back seat may have distracted her a tad bit more than the converstaion she was having on the phone. She must have hit the brakes (whick I thought would have been anti-locks, but I guess not) and slid into her current position dead in traffic across two lanes.
See, even Super Moms can be Highway A-holes.
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