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My Drive to Work
Aug. 2nd, 2008 01:28 amThis was how my drive to work went down yesterday:
I have my ipod on shuffle, and a song that I really like comes on.
(sings along) "lalala-la-lalala-la-lalah...AAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"
And no, that last part was not me hitting a high note. That was the sound of me screaming because some asshat in an SUV thought it would be cute to change lanes without bothering to look. And he did it in such a way that there was no time for me to stop at all...only react. Really, it was very close. The last time I screamed in the car was when I got rear-ended back in February. In this particular instance, said person crossed a solid white line when they decided that they wanted to see if two cars could exist in the same place at the same time. I managed to swerve just enough to avoid him. When I looked into my review mirror right after it had happened, I noticed that he had ducked back into his original lane. Essentially, he had used my lane to cut off the person in front of him, who was also stuck in traffic. So...not only was he being an ass, he was being an ass squared.
The funny thing was that this was the area where the expressway divides into local and express lanes. I was in the right-most express lane, but I had slowed down because the lane next to me was backed up. I knew that people waiting in traffic have a tendency to change their minds, decide that they don't want that lane after all, and pull out abruptly so I wanted to be ready to stop. Well...as I discovered yesterday, there's only so much you can do when the person next to you starts doing dumb things.
I have my ipod on shuffle, and a song that I really like comes on.
(sings along) "lalala-la-lalala-la-lalah...AAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"
And no, that last part was not me hitting a high note. That was the sound of me screaming because some asshat in an SUV thought it would be cute to change lanes without bothering to look. And he did it in such a way that there was no time for me to stop at all...only react. Really, it was very close. The last time I screamed in the car was when I got rear-ended back in February. In this particular instance, said person crossed a solid white line when they decided that they wanted to see if two cars could exist in the same place at the same time. I managed to swerve just enough to avoid him. When I looked into my review mirror right after it had happened, I noticed that he had ducked back into his original lane. Essentially, he had used my lane to cut off the person in front of him, who was also stuck in traffic. So...not only was he being an ass, he was being an ass squared.
The funny thing was that this was the area where the expressway divides into local and express lanes. I was in the right-most express lane, but I had slowed down because the lane next to me was backed up. I knew that people waiting in traffic have a tendency to change their minds, decide that they don't want that lane after all, and pull out abruptly so I wanted to be ready to stop. Well...as I discovered yesterday, there's only so much you can do when the person next to you starts doing dumb things.
