The Psychic/Psycho Driver

Usually when you are driving you give people plenty of space to be stupid since this is what they are good at especially behind the wheel of a car. When they end up doing something odd that you didn’t expect you usually think either one of two things. One, they have done the strange and potentially dangerous act and now are more alert to their weird driving ways and become a bit more cautious on the road. Or two, they repeat to do obnoxious things and unexpectedly. I almost always end up encountering the latter of the two and this one fine day was no exception.
I have learned from my driving experiences in cities such as Sarasota, the land of the newlywed and nearly dead, and Tampa, where everyone is in such a rush and heaven forbid you get in front of them under any circumstance, and now in Gainesville, which has proven to be the most unpredictable of all with its crazy college students mixed with people that I swear just learned how to drive and have a fear of driving anything but 5 under the speed limit.
The driver I encountered was a particularly special case that I had never had to deal with before driving on the roads of any city. I have learned to keep my distance from any cars that are driving at exactly the correct speed limit because they are probably thinking they are doing something wrong or they are about to do something wrong. Keeping to this strategy, I cruise along behind a dark green beat up car. Apparently this certain driver possessed a gift that I do not and instinctively knew when a traffic light was about to turn yellow. Imagine my surprise upon learning of this psychic gift when the driver in front of me slams on the breaks at a green light and comes to a complete stop just as the light changes from green to yellow. I thought the driver was just crazy and I didn’t suspect that they actually knew when the light would change but I was completely wrong in this assumption.
The light turned green again and we continue on in our adventure up the road while I have foolishly thought that the worst was over. Never would I have expected them to do the exact same thing a second time but this driver is a very talented individual and apparently enjoys showing off their gift of prophecy. Once again they had slammed on the breaks and came to a complete stop just before the traffic light has turned yellow. At this point I am getting a little annoyed because we could definitely make it through these lights before they have a chance at turning yellow but the driver in front of me had different plans apparently. As the light turns green once again, I wish I could go around them but of course all this happens while we are on a one lane road. The psychic driver decides to keep up this psychic practice of his for a complete number of five consecutive traffic lights before we finally merge onto a three lane street. Now I’m getting excited and feeling relieved that I can get around this insane driver.
Since we are in the far left lane at this point I decide to put my turn indicator on so that I could switch to the middle lane just as the driver puts on his left turn indicator. I feel so relieved at this point because I will finally be rid of him. Of course, I was wrong again. Even though he has put his left blinker on and I have started switching over to the middle lane, he decided to shock me even further when he flew across all three lanes to the right and then turns off his left blinker. What possesses a driver to put on the left indicator to turn to the right is completely beyond me.
Not trusting anything at all that this person is deciding to do, I take a detour down another street just to get away from him. I don’t think I’ll ever really understand what was happening in this person’s mind, but it definitely has trained me to become a more cautious driver that never believes what the other people around me are really doing what I think they are. Lesson learned.