Highway 101 and I do not get along at all. Weird things happen when I try to drive on it. To be fair, every time I do drive on it, I curse it, its potholes, the weird strip in the right lanes that make my tires buzz, and the endless construction in Mountain View, so maybe I'm sending off negative vibes. The following have happened the last few times I drove on it:
* As we were turning off the highway, a car several cars ahead of me lost a hubcap from its left side. This bounced along the pavement at high speed and sailed just over my car, narrowly missing the windshield. Naturally, instinct took over and I ducked, which would have done no good at all because I was in the car.
* Glop wound up on my windshield at high speed. At first I thought it was bird droppings, but it never solidified. Gross.
* A pickup truck wanted to drive in the left lane. Naturally, he (I'm assuming it's a he) cut across all 4 lanes of traffic with his right blinker on.
* A guy missed his exit. So he pulled over to the shoulder and drove in reverse until he reached it.
This pretty much accounts for the last three times I've taken 101. None of this, I repeat, absolutely none of this, happens on 280.
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I've had that glop thing happen, too--it made an unholy loud splat and I thought for a second the windshield was cracked. Then spent the next ten minutes trying to figure out what it could be.
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