High Beams

High Beams have been on my mind lately, and no, I don't mean the  good kind, like the ones you see hanging out in the mall during summer, I mean the bad kind, like the ones that hit you as your hurtling down the road while driving home at 9.20pm at night. 

The other night I was coming back from dinner when I counted over a dozen assholes driving with their high beams on. How one can illuminate so much of the road with a bodily orifice is beyond me, but be that as it may, Hawaii has got to be the worst place in the world for high beam abuse. I mean seriously, everyone and their frickin' grandma goes driving around with their high beams on.  One in three, based on my calculations. 

It's not like we're living out in BFE. This is HONOLULU! Over a million people live here. Don't believe me? Take a look. There's development everywhere. 

And at night it looks like this.

Pretty well lit, if you ask me. 

Now, granted, maybe everyone on in Hawaii knows something I don't, like it's illegal to drive without your high beams on, or turning them off will kill everyone over 70. Who knows. Personally, I think it's because so many fuck-wits here learned to drive in third world countries, i.e. California. 

So, as I ponder the inponderables and try to figure out just what in the hell is going on, I want to point out, for the record, that the only acceptable high beams to have on while driving are these.