It's amazing how a litte rain causes people to drive like complete idiots.

Sure, I know it doesn't rain all that much in Utah.  But the way people drive during a light to gentle rain storm, you'd think they were driving through a hurricane.  I've driven in all kinds of rain, including a hurricane.  In fact, people I've seen on the road durring a hurricane still drive much better than your common Utahn.

Last night there was a gentle rain.  Heavy enough that you'd get a little wet walking from the car to a store, but not so heavy that you need to run to the door.

Just driving around town, I had at least four people drive erratically around me.  For some reason, they loved merging into my lane right behind me - close enough where I can't see their headlights - even though they had no obvious reason to merge into my lane.

In one instance, I had an Alpine School District bus pull into State street from the other side of the road, merge over three lanes within seconds.  I was in the third lane as the bus pulled into it, almost hitting our car.  I merged into the center lane to get around the bus, who almost immediately afterwards got in my lane right behind me, then merged over two lanes suddenly to make a left turn light at one of the big intersections.  As you might guess, the bus missed the green light, but that didn't stop the bus driver (or the car behind it) from turning left through a red light, almost hitting oncoming traffic (we use an alternating light pattern here - one side of the road goes straight and turns left, then the left turn goes red to allow oncomming traffic to go, then the original lane turns red so the oncomming left turn gets the green).

Does the rain fog their brains in some way?  Or does it take bad driving skills and amplify them tenfold?

It's enough to make me want to stay home when it rains.

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