Choosing a topic for my paper was not the easiest decision, there were so many different issues that one could choose from; whether entail the taking sides with the locals or the Jews, or to siding with the way Bloom describes Iowa life. The topic that correlated to me was driving in Iowa as Bloom had seen it. .
Bloom described Iowa drivers by saying that "Most Iowans drove large American-made automobiles, and they drove ever-so-slowly, almost never over the speed limit. They rarely passed other cars. On Iowa freeways, motorists gladly allowed merging cars into the stream of traffic with a smile and a pleasant horizontal wave." Having been driving in Des Moines since I received my license, I have a very different point of view.
Not only do I have experience with driving in Iowa, I also work in the construction business over the past four years, causing me to deal with Iowan drivers on a daily basis. Each morning I jump into my car and head to the job site most likely in Des Moines. I head west on I-80 for about five miles then get off on I-235 South. Merging on to I-235 South does not seem like a hard thing to do, but trying to squeeze in with all the traffic from Ankeny, who are naturally going five to ten miles over the speed limit, with out receiving the bird is a chore. If you are lucky a nice driver slows down to let you on, but most of the time you have to floor it or slam on the brake praying that the person behind you does not run right up your ass. .
After one has have accomplished that task you now enter the eastside of Des Moines. Making sure you are not one of those assholes that you had to deal with getting on the interstate practicing good ethics. As you approach downtown you can never avoid the current construction, I mean the ongoing construction, without having to squeeze yourself into the next lane unexpectedly due to the other drivers speeding up so they are not one second late for the important desk job.
