A confession to make....

[Boz]

.....I was wrong.

We get in some heated discussions on this board. Sometimes we get so caught up in defending a position, we can't see anything except winning the argument. It is only after a period of time and reflection that it is possible to recognize that we may not have been right in the first place.

I have had such an epiphany.

(Before anyone gets too crazy, there are still many things I am right about:
1. Conservatives are still smart and liberals are still morons.
2. Marvel superheroes still can beat the crap out of any of those D.C. wussies.
3. Ben's Chili Bowl still sucks.
4. Animal Collective is still not a good band at all.
;D )


But when I'm wrong on something, I'm wrong on something, and it's high time I admitted it:

It is without question, without doubt, without reservation and with 100% contrition over a previous position I held pretty adamantly that I now am prepared to admit that the absolute worst drivers in all of D.C., Maryland and Virginia are most assuredly the Virginia drivers.

And, I mean, it's not even close, man. Virginians suck by a mile over everyone else. Absofreakinglutely.

Now that the scales have fallen from my eyes, I honestly don't even know how I could have argued anything to the contrary. Ever. It is so blindingly obvious that I really don't know what I could have been thinking.

So, to those of you who have argued this position before, and have been opposed by me on it, my sincere apologies. You were unquestionably correct and I was abjectly in the wrong.

(Don't get too high any mighty though. It's not like DC and MD drivers are paragons of excellence or anything. They're just several notches above the complete ineptitude that exists in NoVa.)

That is my confession for today.

Happy Friday and here's to a long and protracted government shutdown, so that possibly many of these Virginia menaces to the roadways will stay at home and only suck at driving games on XBox or something.

[hoyawatcher]

So what brought on this epiphany? Did you get T Boned in Arlington or did an arrogant gubberment worker cut you off and then give you the finger? Some cataclysmic event has driven you to your knees in repentance and inquiring minds would like to know?

Though personally I remain firmly in the camp that they all suck.

[Boz]

Luckily, I have had the good fortune not to have been in any accidents in a long time. And I credit the driving awareness training my company offers, which has helped me avoid more than a few idiots who otherwise would have plowed into me, completely oblivious of their surroundings.

Though recently, a moronic, probably drunk, Virginia driver backed into my car while it was parked (not significant damage, but it was a lot more than a fender bump; I say probably drunk because this happened at about 1 a.m. after a late night working & my car was parked fairly close to a bar).

No, this is simply the result of several months of driving in all three jurisdictions. There is just simply no way of avoiding the truth anymore, when you see all three in action over an extended period of time.

(And again, I reiterate: DC and MD drivers are not aces by any means, but they are not nearly as bad as VA).

[hoyatables]

Boz,

Whether it is DC superheroes or DC drivers, you still get it wrong .

[TC]

Comparing Marvel to DC is like comparing The Wire to TJ Hooker.

[PhillyHoya]

VA drivers do seem to be allergic to turn signals. And the VA DMV sucks. Freaking typo on my new license.

[Coast2CoastHoya]

As a relatively objective non-driver (i.e., being on a bike means i don't care what the plates say as long as they don't hit me), it's no contest: VA drivers are the WORST in the DMV.

WHOA WHOA hold the phones: was that a post by BuffaloHoya?