Friday, September 28, 2001
did i miss a memo or something?
today has just been wierd. everyone is wierd. wierd things have happened. i feel like i am out of the loop or something. first off, traffic was just nuts, like nuts in your mouth nuts ALL DAY. it was insanity. i was driving to the office from a job site about noon or so, and i get to the 520 on ramp, and traffic STOPS. i creep up to the ship canal bridge, and there is a cop, who seems to be causing some problems. first 2 lanes are at a stand still now. then another cop pulls up in front of someone, about 2 cars up from me, in the 3rd lane over (i am in second lane over, flips his sirens, and STOPS. now all traffic is going through one lane, and everyone is freaking out. other cop pulls past him somehow, the cop stopping the lane drives away, and they both get off on the 45th st exit. traffic starts, and is perfectly normal. what the hell!!!! this morning, there was this old guy driving on 75th in both lanes. granted, it is confusing because there is no lines for most of it, but even when there were lines, like stopping at the stoplight at 15th, he was in both lanes. he did this all the way to roosevelt, where he finally turned off, from the middle of the two farthest lanes, even though there is a 3rd lane over acting as a turn lane. what the hell!!!!! drivers have been down right stupid ALL around me, and i just ignore it, and somehow it never manages to really effect me. i just kind of watch, as i am sitting at the 4 way stop and it is my turn, and two people who just pulled up in two directions decide that it should be there turn, even though there are 6 other lanes that have been waiting. so they pull into the intersection and almost tank eachother. i watch them flip eachother off, then drive away like it never happened. watching people merge on i-5. no one was even looking today. granted, no one ever looks, but today it was worse than usual. cars just drifting over, no signal, no nothing, just drifting over into another lane. the car who happens to be occupying the space the other car is trying to take guns it, and swerves in front of a semi to avoid a collision. semi almost hits other car, slows down, car behind him almost rear ends semi. bus fails to look at his side, almost creams a car trying to get on the freeway. two people almost merge into the same half a car length spot right in front of me. i casually drop my speed so there is enough room. both realize as their noses are about to hit, and swerve back into their lanes. there are other cars where the merging cars used to be, so they have to slam on the breaks. my lane is open again, so i move into the spot the two people tried to merge into and drive away. one car passes another car on the right in the crosswalk of an intersection right in front of me one lane over. the car that passed the car swerves into my lane. other car pulls up along side and starts yelling, other car swerves into turn lane and shoots across traffic, other car speeds around a semi, swerves across turn lane and oncoming traffic lanes into a shucks parking lot to go chase him down, almost tanking 2 pedestrians. don't even get me started on pedestrians today. holy shnikes, so much insanity. i guess none of it is really unusally, but it was all right after another, all right in front of me, just minding my own business. none of it really effects me, i just keep going like nothing happened. it wasn't even stuff i caused, it was just people being morons.
i need to get drunk, oh yes...
today has just been wierd. everyone is wierd. wierd things have happened. i feel like i am out of the loop or something. first off, traffic was just nuts, like nuts in your mouth nuts ALL DAY. it was insanity. i was driving to the office from a job site about noon or so, and i get to the 520 on ramp, and traffic STOPS. i creep up to the ship canal bridge, and there is a cop, who seems to be causing some problems. first 2 lanes are at a stand still now. then another cop pulls up in front of someone, about 2 cars up from me, in the 3rd lane over (i am in second lane over, flips his sirens, and STOPS. now all traffic is going through one lane, and everyone is freaking out. other cop pulls past him somehow, the cop stopping the lane drives away, and they both get off on the 45th st exit. traffic starts, and is perfectly normal. what the hell!!!! this morning, there was this old guy driving on 75th in both lanes. granted, it is confusing because there is no lines for most of it, but even when there were lines, like stopping at the stoplight at 15th, he was in both lanes. he did this all the way to roosevelt, where he finally turned off, from the middle of the two farthest lanes, even though there is a 3rd lane over acting as a turn lane. what the hell!!!!! drivers have been down right stupid ALL around me, and i just ignore it, and somehow it never manages to really effect me. i just kind of watch, as i am sitting at the 4 way stop and it is my turn, and two people who just pulled up in two directions decide that it should be there turn, even though there are 6 other lanes that have been waiting. so they pull into the intersection and almost tank eachother. i watch them flip eachother off, then drive away like it never happened. watching people merge on i-5. no one was even looking today. granted, no one ever looks, but today it was worse than usual. cars just drifting over, no signal, no nothing, just drifting over into another lane. the car who happens to be occupying the space the other car is trying to take guns it, and swerves in front of a semi to avoid a collision. semi almost hits other car, slows down, car behind him almost rear ends semi. bus fails to look at his side, almost creams a car trying to get on the freeway. two people almost merge into the same half a car length spot right in front of me. i casually drop my speed so there is enough room. both realize as their noses are about to hit, and swerve back into their lanes. there are other cars where the merging cars used to be, so they have to slam on the breaks. my lane is open again, so i move into the spot the two people tried to merge into and drive away. one car passes another car on the right in the crosswalk of an intersection right in front of me one lane over. the car that passed the car swerves into my lane. other car pulls up along side and starts yelling, other car swerves into turn lane and shoots across traffic, other car speeds around a semi, swerves across turn lane and oncoming traffic lanes into a shucks parking lot to go chase him down, almost tanking 2 pedestrians. don't even get me started on pedestrians today. holy shnikes, so much insanity. i guess none of it is really unusally, but it was all right after another, all right in front of me, just minding my own business. none of it really effects me, i just keep going like nothing happened. it wasn't even stuff i caused, it was just people being morons.
i need to get drunk, oh yes...
