Safe Driving != Good Driving

So I have a question for all the ladies. I choose ladies mainly because I've never heard a guy say this. When someone brings up how shitty women drive, their retort is always "I've never gotten a ticket" or "i've never gotten into a wreck". This is all well and good, but this does not mean you can drive well. My hypothesis... " Safe Driving does not equal Good Driving".

Case in point #1: I'm at Crossroads in Cary waiting to make a left out of the BJs parking lot near Golden Corral onto Piney Plains Road. I'm behind a lady, stupid bit... but I digress. This lady has wasted a good 45 seconds trying to make a left where she had 3 -4 chances of ample opportunity to go between cars but is being overly cautious and not going. She hasn't even crawled into the intersection, she's still back near the line near me. Finally theres a huge break with one car coming WHO HAS THEIR FREAKING LEFT TURN SIGNAL ON. What does the lady in front of me do... she waits some more. Finally the light has turned yellow,the car coming toward us turning left which is the other way we are going makes their left and this lady finally goes when theres not another car in freaking sight and we are all left at the light for another cycle. I look in the rear view mirror and we are a good 20 cars deep at this point.

Now don't get me wrong, i'm happy she was safe and didnt get in a wreck thus causing me further aggravation. But I'll be damned if she's probably spouting off to her freaking husband who has to put up with this shitty driving more than I do about how "good" a driver she is. What she doesnt understand is that she is a "safe" driver. Not good. A good driver would have pulled further into the intersection giving herself less distance to travel, giving her the ability on multiple occassions to get through the intersection quicker. I equate good driving with understanding how to drive correctly and safely, not just safely.

Good drivers:

* know you dont ride in the left lane of the interstate if someone is behind you wanting to go faster
* know to move over to the left hand lane to make it easier to merge from the right
* know how to drive slowly and let someone merge in seamlessly in heavy rush hour traffic
* understand the concept that its tough enough to drive, but to do it with 1 hand on a cellphone while not paying a damn bit of attention is downright stupid
* how to drive through an intersection with *gasp* other cars around instead of waiting for every cotton-pickin' car to go by before they go.

So for my first blog post I leave you with Safe Driving != Good Driving. I'm sure there will be many, if not thousands more blogs to support this claim. Some will be men I'm sure, and some will be given the benefit of the doubt. I mean how can we expect a 16,17, or 18 year old girl to drive correctly when her dumbass mom can't drive her way out of a paper bag. Its almost inate for the fairer sex to suck at driving now.