Thursday, October 14, 2004
looliloo looooo....
i hit someone today on the way home from work. it was at this wierd intersection where a two lane road turns into a freeway onramp and has a turn lane coming on from the left side with just a yield sign, and a light for the people coming from the right. so i'm in the left lane, and people are pooping themselves in from the left in front of me like they usually do. my light turns yellow, so i speed up to make it. last wanker doesn't even look and toodles his way into my lane while i'm in it. i broke as fast as i could, then turned my wheels at the end so i deflected to a stop, and he deflected going forward since he saw me too late to really slow down because he wasn't paying any attention. the really funny part is after it happened, i had the chance to just leave, like i went around him and merged into the other lane after it happened, and i went past him, and i could have just left, but in that one moment i could have just gone, i just sort of paused, then pulled off to the side. i just think its funny that my instincts had me back to full speed and inserted into traffic.
i had never hit anyone before on accident. it has been kind of the last unknown in the "am i a good driver?" question: how would i react if i really was about to hit someone. apparently well. he only had a ding on his passenger side door because at the last second i veered my wheels so we were going at close to the same angle as eachother and just bounced off eachother. i have a little crease in my front left fender. the funny thing is the crease is right on top of the dent that was already there. but yeah, i kind of walked up to him after and like so... what do you want to do? he kind of freaked out and tried to blame it on me, so i told him "dude, it was my light, i had the right of way, and you were merging in to my lane. you had a yield sign that you ignored" he shut up because he knew i was right and was like "so... what do you want to do?" so i told him i didn't really care, and i only had a little dent like his, and asked him if he was alright with not going through the whole insurance company deal. i said something like "i'm not even going to get it fixed anyways, so whatever." then he was just like fuck it, and so i just kind of wandered back to my car and drove off.
but yeah, apparently i done good. i thought i was going to nail him when he didn't stop, but i kind of slid into him then flicked him off of me. it was so anticlimatic. there wasn't even any damage. i made a scratch on the scratch protecting strip that runs across his door, haha. i was expecting at least some breaking glass or something, but there was just kind of a plastic thunk where my fender flexed his door and bounced off. i bent my driver side mirror, but didn't knock it off. i just poked it and it popped right back into place.
maybe i am a good driver. i'm pissed that i hit someone. i should have seen it coming sooner. i almost didn't hit him at all, but i failed. could it be my tires? i've been pushing them from difficult angles and the tread is worn down! (sorry, this post needed an initial d reference).
i hit someone today on the way home from work. it was at this wierd intersection where a two lane road turns into a freeway onramp and has a turn lane coming on from the left side with just a yield sign, and a light for the people coming from the right. so i'm in the left lane, and people are pooping themselves in from the left in front of me like they usually do. my light turns yellow, so i speed up to make it. last wanker doesn't even look and toodles his way into my lane while i'm in it. i broke as fast as i could, then turned my wheels at the end so i deflected to a stop, and he deflected going forward since he saw me too late to really slow down because he wasn't paying any attention. the really funny part is after it happened, i had the chance to just leave, like i went around him and merged into the other lane after it happened, and i went past him, and i could have just left, but in that one moment i could have just gone, i just sort of paused, then pulled off to the side. i just think its funny that my instincts had me back to full speed and inserted into traffic.
i had never hit anyone before on accident. it has been kind of the last unknown in the "am i a good driver?" question: how would i react if i really was about to hit someone. apparently well. he only had a ding on his passenger side door because at the last second i veered my wheels so we were going at close to the same angle as eachother and just bounced off eachother. i have a little crease in my front left fender. the funny thing is the crease is right on top of the dent that was already there. but yeah, i kind of walked up to him after and like so... what do you want to do? he kind of freaked out and tried to blame it on me, so i told him "dude, it was my light, i had the right of way, and you were merging in to my lane. you had a yield sign that you ignored" he shut up because he knew i was right and was like "so... what do you want to do?" so i told him i didn't really care, and i only had a little dent like his, and asked him if he was alright with not going through the whole insurance company deal. i said something like "i'm not even going to get it fixed anyways, so whatever." then he was just like fuck it, and so i just kind of wandered back to my car and drove off.
but yeah, apparently i done good. i thought i was going to nail him when he didn't stop, but i kind of slid into him then flicked him off of me. it was so anticlimatic. there wasn't even any damage. i made a scratch on the scratch protecting strip that runs across his door, haha. i was expecting at least some breaking glass or something, but there was just kind of a plastic thunk where my fender flexed his door and bounced off. i bent my driver side mirror, but didn't knock it off. i just poked it and it popped right back into place.
maybe i am a good driver. i'm pissed that i hit someone. i should have seen it coming sooner. i almost didn't hit him at all, but i failed. could it be my tires? i've been pushing them from difficult angles and the tread is worn down! (sorry, this post needed an initial d reference).
