Bozos on the Highway

I usually take the highway to get to the house from the apartment. I did that today expecting it to take the normal 5 minutes to get there and start working on a closet. As I got a bit more than halfway up the on-ramp, however, I noticed a long line of cars to my left moving extremely slowly if at all. Ok, there'd been a wreck. Unfortunately, they're a common occurance. Even more unfortunately for the driver in this wreck was the fact that the truck was almost upside down with hood and doors in very unnatural positions. I couldn't tell if anyone was hurt from my vantage point parked behind a police officer standing at the top of the ramp (the accident was about 50 feet away).

As I sat waiting patiently for the officer to wave me on, I noticed off to my right a Buick Riviera driving, or rather bouncing, along the grassy shoulder (it's very wide at that part of the highway). At about the same time I saw it, the cop standing five feet in front of my car turned and noticed it, too. He crossed his arms in a gesture of "You stupid, stupid person. What on earth would cause you to commit such idiocy?" There were emergency vehicles everywhere with lights blazing. It's not like this person could've seriously thought there weren't any cops around or they wouldn't care that this Buick was off-roading on the shoulder to get around a wreck. So one of the cops just behind the accident jumps in his car and takes off after the Buick. I was then able to get on the highway, and sure enough, not more than a mile later the cop had pulled the Buick over.

Patience, people, is a virtue.