It never fails to amaze me that so many people can completely forget how to drive in snowy conditions. Especially here in Canada.
There are a variety of types of drivers.
1: The cocky driver: This driver believes that the weather conditions are completely irrelevant to him, because he is such a good driver that nothing could possibly go wrong on the road.
2: The ignorant driver: This driver has seasonal amnesia, or some similar brain disorder that renders him or her incapable of remembering the rules of the road in the winter, such as \'slow down\', and \'don\'t accellerate into corners\'. Any sliding on icy patches is a total surprise, because... well... who knew ice was slippery?
3: The paranoid driver: This driver type is rare, for he/she has never seen snow before at all (no matter how many winters they\'ve experienced in Canada) and drives everywhere at 10kph or slower, ignoring all horn honking, shouted insults, and window pounding pedestrians. They are frequently found at the scenes of car accidents, with their trunks (boots) crumpled badly, and another driver yelling at them through a closed window.
4: The intelligent driver: Contrary to any personal beliefs about your own skills, this type of driver does not actually exist. Personal perspective does not count for anything. In everyone else\'s eyes on the road, everyone else is an idiot, a maniac, and should not have a license.
5: The sight-seer (also called \'lost driver): These drivers are prone to slowing down suddenly (and skidding wildly) when they think they\'ve seen their street, and immediately realised that they want to turn right, when they\'re in the far left lane. On straightaways, these drivers count as \'the paranoid driver\', as they creep along at a snail\'s pace, looking for the number on the street where their friend/relative lives.
6: The Immigrant Driver: While this may seem a racist classification, it remains valid. The immigrant driver has recently arrived in the country, and has an impressive driving record in their own country, and refuses to acknowledge that traffic conditions are different in their new home. If they have come from a small place with little traffic, they drive as if they have all the time in the world (compared to The Paranoid Driver often), and if they come from a dense traffic locale, they drive with the determined \'me first\' attitude that results in many people being cut off, cut into in drive-thru line-ups, and finding themselves almost killed while trying to clear the intersection before this person accellerates from 0-90 when the light turns green (often compared to the Cocky Driver).
7: The Car-pooling Mom: Constantly talking on her cellular telephone to the other moms who aren\'t doing the car-pool on this particular day, searching through their purses for tissues to give to the screaming child in the back, or trying to find the phone number for their plumber in their purse while cruising serenely into an intersection filled with pedestrians diving for cover, cheerfully oblivious to the reckless danger of their actions, until they hit a lamp post. Then, somehow, it\'s the lamp post\'s fault.
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