Friday 5:57 PM. Saugus, Mass
Locale: Route 1 Northbound, a three lane highway with shops on the right hand side.
Perpetrator: Black Jeep

To all the non-Massachusetts readers, if any, here's a little advice for visiting Massachusetts:

Don't go on Route 1

Ever

Route 1 is a North and South bound route that traverses from Newburyport to Boston, and happens to run right past my apartment. So, naturally, I travel on it quite frequently. Route 1 hosts a myriad of shops and attractions...and they're all equally painful to try and get to. The route is three lanes in either direction, and is therefore separated in the middle by a barrier. So often, you see your destination on the opposite side of the road...and have no clue how to get there. It's a headache, a pain in the neck, and it's also the only way to get to the two closest malls to my apartment. Turning onto this road from one of the sides is like playing frogger. You never feel like you're able to turn out. In traffic, people are also less inclined to let you in.

So for today's particular scenario, our winner was stuck behind a car trying to turn on to this bumper to bumper road. As I said, this is no easy task, and as such, is taking this person a little effort. Well, being Friday and all, this Jeep decides that they do not feel like waiting to turn into this traffic. They've got places to go, people to see, and sidewalks to drive over.

Yup.

The Jeep pulls out behind the car turning out of the shopping area and drives up and over the curb to get around them. Now, I understand that they are in a Jeep, and that Jeeps are designed for conditions like that. I just have a feeling that the Chrysler group didn't exactly have shortcutting traffic in mind.