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My Almost-daily Journal |
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| About I love trying out new things, especially when it comes to internet technology. I never really kept a journal, but it's something that I've always wanted to do. Now, everybody will get a chance to look inside my twisted, and somewhat-warped mind.
I've also subscribed to Audio Blog, so a few times a week, I'll leave actual voice blogs. Very cool!XML Newsfeed Previous Posts
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Monday, April 11, 2005
Monday Mondays... What a way to start off a Monday... Left my house about 7:20 AM. It's a little later than I hoped to depart from my house, but wasn't cause for alarm. Got stopped at the 17 Mile & Van Dyke light. I could have blown through the early yellow, and almost did, since radar detector was silent, but decided to stop like a good citizen. Got stopped at the 17 Mile & Mound light. I was in the left lane, and the right lane cleared up since people were turning on Mound, so I took the right lane pole position. Things are looking up. Pretty rare that I get one of the poles at that light. Bottleneck comes up in two miles, so it's nice to get ahead of the pack, mainly to monitor the heroes fortifying and strategizing their positions to somehow get in front of you. So far, very nice day. No aggressive asshats pushing their way up the right lane to pass. Days without the asshats are usually stress-reduced days for me. Not a car in sight for over a quarter mile behind me... it's actually a nice feeling to know that there's not someone behind you, on your ass, aggressive, and in a hurry to get nowhere. Bus in right lane. Flashers come on... first yellow (for a long time), then red. Hmmm... pass the bus or stop? Passing the bus would have required me to punch it, but not bad. I could have easily passed the bus and still stayed in the yellow. But why bother? I'll do the right thing and stop. By stopping I could actually box in any aggressive hero that decided to pass me on the right. Perfect! I could enjoy a leisurely drive west on 17 Mile Road, with a bus on my right to keep the asshats behind me. So here I am... stopped behind a schoolbus. I'm in the left lane, and the bus is in the right lane. I'm about 50 feet behind the bus as I come to a complete leisurely stop. I'm thinking, "where are the kids?" Then I notice a toddler coming out of one of the houses. Nice. Door-to-door service! I don't remember that going to school. The kid gets halfway down his walkway from his front door... The next thing that happened sucked, and ruined my Monday. As the kid was walking to the bus, out of nowhere, I get rear-ended. Out of nowhere!!!! Remember, I was at least a quarter mile ahead of the traffic! I don't even know where this guy came from. He either came out of one of the subdivisions, or he was in a huge hurry to somehow get ahead of the stopped bus. I'm trying to understand how a person, can come up on a bus with its red flashers on, with another car stopped in adjacent lane (me), and somehow think: 1) That I am not actually there, or 2) That I am actually moving at the same rate of speed he is. My conclusion is simple: it's all related to genetics, and somehow, someway, this world is getting infected with stupid people. I hate stupid people. I hate slow people. I hate people that don't know the square root of 49. There, I said it. I am severely prejudiced against stupid people. "I pooshed brakes and they not verk...", Hilai, the Romanian immigrant says to me as he gets out of his minivan. "Did you see the blinking red lights on the schoolbus? It wasn't moving. Did you see me, stopped behind the schoolbus? I wasn't moving. What part of two, non-moving vehicles did you not comprehend?" "I pooshed brakes and they not verk well. Gee, it take me three year to get inserance rates low. Now thees. How much you theenk thees ees going to cost?" "I don't understand how faulty brakes is the reason I have a smashed rear fascia. There was a left turn lane. You could have swerved there. It's really my fault, I should have blown by the bus, or kept an eye out in my rear view. I guess it's assuming too much to think that someone will stop, if I am stopped for a schoolbus. Damage is going to be at least $2000. This vehicle isn't even a year old. Geez, man." So I call information to get the SHPD. They arrive in about ten minutes. In the meantime, I make some calls to Danielle and to work. Then Hilai asks if he can use my phone. LOL. Sure. Then he motions to me to get into his minivan. We sit there for a while as he calls his wife. I'm a little less on fire now, since the guy is definitely sorry. Shit, accidents happen... never by me, but I guess we all can't be connected to reality 24/7. Cops come. Very nice, too. They see us both sitting in the minivan like we were father and son. I hope that's not what they thought. Hilai gets out and tells the cops that I stopped suddenly, and he couldn't stop fast enough. I let him tell his story while I shook my head. My story was simple: I stopped for the bus. I watched the kid walk from his front door to the sidewalk, and the next thing I knew, some asshat hit me from behind. Cops were quick. I wrote my statement (in extreme detail). He couldn't even write his, since he could barely speak Enlish, let alone write it (not that this has any bearing on whether someone is stupid or not). So I waited for the cop to give me back my license, registration and proof of insurance. It wasn't that long, surprisingly. Maybe a total of ten minutes. I asked the cop what I do next, and he says, "That guy got a ticket. You have the option to come to court if he elects to have a hearing. But that's your option. He was totally at fault." Hmmm. Thanks for letting me know he was totally at fault. I was beginning to question myself... I thought this to myself. So now I have a busted fascia, a deductible, and I won't have a vehicle for a week. What do I get for my inconvenience? posted by Dino at 2:50 PM (permanent link)
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