lazygood4nothinbum
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how cool is that? i was meeting family for dinner at 6 and left just enough time to get to the nearby mall to return shoes that squeak.
the place is pretty busy for a sunday night. a vw is standing still in the service drive, facing north in a southbound lane. i'm heading south using the lane she left available. i'm driving very slow as there are lots of cars and people about.
an older couple, i mean older, both hunched over, the guy with a cane, leaning on each other as they crossed the street in the crosswalk just behind the vw. as i'm pulling up to this scene, looking at the vw on the wrong side of the street, she starts to back up her car with a bit of speed.
i frantically honk my horn in short beeps beep beep beep beep beep. she stops her car just short of running over the elderly couple. they lose their balance and are leaning on the vw for support and gathering themselves.
i pull up to see that they are all ok. the woman in the vw is now leaning out of her car, upset as if the elderly couple had done something wrong. i stop my car alongside hers, she looks at me. i said "you are not even on the right side of the street." this ditz has no idea how lucky she was that i happened along at that moment.
i'm driving to find a parking spot amazed at the timing of it all. that's all it was, timing. hadn't i left in time to get to the store before dinner, hadn't i stopped for gas, hadn't i set the cruise control on 80 mph on i-95. hadn't i made just the right lights and been stopped by just the right lights. hadn't i turned the corner at the mall to see at that moment what i saw, to honk my horn to give warning, there would have been two dead old shoppers and a pretty girl in jail. wow.
life never ceases to intrigue me.
the place is pretty busy for a sunday night. a vw is standing still in the service drive, facing north in a southbound lane. i'm heading south using the lane she left available. i'm driving very slow as there are lots of cars and people about.
an older couple, i mean older, both hunched over, the guy with a cane, leaning on each other as they crossed the street in the crosswalk just behind the vw. as i'm pulling up to this scene, looking at the vw on the wrong side of the street, she starts to back up her car with a bit of speed.
i frantically honk my horn in short beeps beep beep beep beep beep. she stops her car just short of running over the elderly couple. they lose their balance and are leaning on the vw for support and gathering themselves.
i pull up to see that they are all ok. the woman in the vw is now leaning out of her car, upset as if the elderly couple had done something wrong. i stop my car alongside hers, she looks at me. i said "you are not even on the right side of the street." this ditz has no idea how lucky she was that i happened along at that moment.
i'm driving to find a parking spot amazed at the timing of it all. that's all it was, timing. hadn't i left in time to get to the store before dinner, hadn't i stopped for gas, hadn't i set the cruise control on 80 mph on i-95. hadn't i made just the right lights and been stopped by just the right lights. hadn't i turned the corner at the mall to see at that moment what i saw, to honk my horn to give warning, there would have been two dead old shoppers and a pretty girl in jail. wow.
life never ceases to intrigue me.