Thursday, 02 July 2009

• Whoa

  I almost died yesterday! 
  
  Okay, perhaps not that dramatic but it did get my heart going like no one's business.  And I think it might have happened the day before yesterday but that's way less dramatic sounding when you have to say 'I almost died the day before yesterday!  The exclamation point barely makes a dent. 
  
  It goes like this, I'm driving down the street - five lanes across, two for each side and one of those middle lanes used for turning (I think they're called turning lanes XD ).  So, I'm on the far right and there's a car in the lane beside me.  It was a pretty long stretch of road and the light was green.  However, what I didn't notice was that the car in the lane beside mine was stopped (not like waiting-for-the-cars-in-front-of-him-to-start-moving sorta stop either).  He was letting a car turn left (from the turning lane) and I didn't see it at all.  I drive past, have to swerve a little because the left turner's not turning very slowly either and he's going straight at me.  He manages to brake and nothing bad happens, but shit. 
  
  I swear!  (Damn, I like exclamation points right now).  I already have a unreasonable fear for people turning left at intersections; I think I could do without the fear of left-turners coming at me from anywhere.  Really though, I do fear.  It's because my first car accident was a left turner turning into me. Hella traumatic.  I think it's the sound and the shock of impact.  It wasn't like I was hurt badly (you get jarred like hell, that's bad enough sometimes).  Either way, but spawned from that I 1) have this irrational fear of left turners and 2) I absolutely hate green taxi cabs (I also harbor an extreme dislike to all taxi cabs though, but I'll never ride a green one).
  
  And stupid sonuvabitch tried to change his story after he hit me.  I still get pissed off just thinking about it.  FU homie.
  
  Okay, I'm relatively calm again.  Good times.
  
  

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