On the Up and Up: Converting My Catalyst?

OK, so I've mentioned my special car before, but today is the day that I'm finally getting it fixed. Or at least enough to pass smog testing. In California, you have to have a piece of equipment in your car that cleans the exhaust when it comes out. I'm not entirely sure how this happens or what that means, or why no other states have that, but either way, I'm not allowed to drive on the road legally without a working catalytic converter. So...as of May 1, hopefully I will be driving legally on the road! Hooray! Seriously, one of the biggest problems that I encounter with traffic is the lack of confidence I feel with my car. The windows don't roll down, the locks don't work, the trunk only opens if you try to do one of the previous two tasks, the car open alarm sounds for no apparent reason, the regular anti-theft alarm occasionally sounds for no reason, etc. etc. etc. So, let's start with the lack of current registration (I do have an extension, just so everyone knows that I do NOT drive against the law) and move on from there. Perhaps next we'll try to fix that damn door alarm from going off randomly and then get something shiny and new ;)

On a side note, as I was driving over from work to Wally the Muffler guy, I realized that I think I'm really the only person on the road who watches to see if there's anyone else coming into the lane I'm about to merge into. At least three times in 20 minutes, I checked my blind spot and looked over to see someone in the next lane over getting ready to merge into the spot that I was already motioning into. Why is it only MY responsibility to make sure that we don't bump sides in the middle of the center lane? Shouldn't anyone else have that responsibility too? Yesterday it happened with this lady on the way home from work and she moved her ginormous SUV into the spot that I was going to take whilst locking eye contact with me, as if to say 'oh, you didn't think you got to have this spot, did you? I had my people reserve it for me.' Oh get over yourself. We all have to share the road!


Oh well, I'll just be happy that we had zero collisions...from front, behind, or the side! Safe travels!