I'm looking for a word
Okay, not really, but if you want to make one up for the following situation, feel free to. I wouldn't be surprised if someone, somewhere (a personal injury attorney, most likely) were to pin down and define this experience.
Say you're tooling down the road in your car/truck/juggernaut, minding your own bid-naz. Like a good little boy/girl/unspecified genderqueer (we're hip that way), you stop at a STOP sign and look left, right, then left again, just like the teacher told you. There is nothing to be seen for miles, no blind spots or obstructions. You could get out of the vehicle and take a hot steaming shit on the middle of the intersection and read the latest issue of TIME, if you wanted to. You literally have that much time.
Seeing that the coast is clear, you start to pull out into the intersection, when a car comes perpendicular barreling out of nowhere, blasting its horn and narrowly missing a t-bone of epic proportions. You screech to a panic stop and watch a car with a middle finger erected from the driver's side window recede in the distance, wondering why your seat is suddenly damp.
Where the hell did that car come from? Did it beam in from a wormhole, dropping it at the same spot you were about to be in within the next microsecond? Has an inter-dimensional rift opened and it drive right through, aiming right for your driver's side door? Was it swallowed by a time warp and it do a pelvic thrust right for your peculiar mode of transport?
Do I get triple points for three geek references in one sentence?
Whatever the reason, you could swear on a stack of Bibles/Torahs/Q'urans/copies of The God Delusion that there was absolutely nobody anywhere in eyesight. So how the hell could you have possibly missed it?
This scenario can also be repeated while changing lanes on a highway and having a trucker appear directly behind you, blasting their horn and flashing their lights. Asshole! Anyway, can also describe pulling out of a driveway/parking lot and narrowly missing getting creamed by a previously unseen vehicle. ANY situation where you are absolutely, 110% certain that the road is clear and it's safe to make your move, yet it obviously wasn't.
I've had this happen to me dozens of times over the years. Thankfully, there hasn't been any collisions (yet), but I did have to change my underwear once or thrice. I consider myself a safe driver, so as a result I pay the fuck attention to my surroundings, much more so than the average bear. This comes from CDL training, defensive driving training, cover-my-ass training, and I-don't-wanna-die-a-horrible-agonizing-death training. Despite all this, somehow I manage to miss cars that are RIGHT FUCKING THERE, coming within an asshair of discovering whether or not there really is a god...and whether or not he really does love us.
So, AMA, have you ever found yourself in the above position?
Say you're tooling down the road in your car/truck/juggernaut, minding your own bid-naz. Like a good little boy/girl/unspecified genderqueer (we're hip that way), you stop at a STOP sign and look left, right, then left again, just like the teacher told you. There is nothing to be seen for miles, no blind spots or obstructions. You could get out of the vehicle and take a hot steaming shit on the middle of the intersection and read the latest issue of TIME, if you wanted to. You literally have that much time.
Seeing that the coast is clear, you start to pull out into the intersection, when a car comes perpendicular barreling out of nowhere, blasting its horn and narrowly missing a t-bone of epic proportions. You screech to a panic stop and watch a car with a middle finger erected from the driver's side window recede in the distance, wondering why your seat is suddenly damp.
Where the hell did that car come from? Did it beam in from a wormhole, dropping it at the same spot you were about to be in within the next microsecond? Has an inter-dimensional rift opened and it drive right through, aiming right for your driver's side door? Was it swallowed by a time warp and it do a pelvic thrust right for your peculiar mode of transport?
Do I get triple points for three geek references in one sentence?
Whatever the reason, you could swear on a stack of Bibles/Torahs/Q'urans/copies of The God Delusion that there was absolutely nobody anywhere in eyesight. So how the hell could you have possibly missed it?
This scenario can also be repeated while changing lanes on a highway and having a trucker appear directly behind you, blasting their horn and flashing their lights. Asshole! Anyway, can also describe pulling out of a driveway/parking lot and narrowly missing getting creamed by a previously unseen vehicle. ANY situation where you are absolutely, 110% certain that the road is clear and it's safe to make your move, yet it obviously wasn't.
I've had this happen to me dozens of times over the years. Thankfully, there hasn't been any collisions (yet), but I did have to change my underwear once or thrice. I consider myself a safe driver, so as a result I pay the fuck attention to my surroundings, much more so than the average bear. This comes from CDL training, defensive driving training, cover-my-ass training, and I-don't-wanna-die-a-horrible-agonizing-death training. Despite all this, somehow I manage to miss cars that are RIGHT FUCKING THERE, coming within an asshair of discovering whether or not there really is a god...and whether or not he really does love us.
So, AMA, have you ever found yourself in the above position?