Almost Killed
I was run off the road today by some oblivious jackass. I wasn't even in their blindspot, and they start merging over without a blinker. I laid on the horn, and they kept coming so I stopped and honked again--they were too close, I couldn't slow down fast enough, they were half a second fro slamming into me. It was at the point where two lanes of the four lane highway breakoff into a separate highway. I swerved and hit the breaks and had to come to a dead stop in the middle of the white lines (the ones that make a V shape bu theres no actula divider). The person didn't even slow down or pull over or stop or anything...kept write on diring away.
I usually have a delayed reaction adrenaline/shock wise, not this time. It hit me like a ton of bricks, but there's no way i could just sit there...I had to get back in traffic while those who were around me were aware of what just happened or had seen the tail end of it and knew to slow down to let me in (or had already slowed thinking there would be an accident). I got back in traffic almost imediateyl. Shaking and everything.
I wanted to call taz or my mom but i knew i had to concentrate. I had hlaf a mind to follow that car but i didn't know what i would do or say. I went from 60 to zzero, I'm sure its not good for my car. It was terrifying to boot and there was no accident though so what do i say to them?
Then ta z calls me minutes later, I pick up because i'm off the highway, and i start to tell him about it. I'm waiting at a stop sing and there's a bus ther efirst, then a car turning, then me, and the bus goes, the car turns....and after the bus left that spot a fourth car pulled up. I go after the second car on my turn, and suddenly the fourth car has started to turn into me (moving out of turn) and comes about 3 seconds from t=-boning me on my passenger side!
I had to honk to get him to stop even though iw as right in front of him! WTF?!
I started bawling on the phone with Taz (i had dropped it to slam on the horn) and then he had a customer and had to go. WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH PEOPLE?!
I had ten more minutes of city driving (lots of cars, small streets, low speed limits and lots of stop lights and pedestrians--so not fast but you have to be really aware and people driver stupider in the city than on the highway and there's less room for error and to get out of the way of teh dumbshit if necessary in the city) and then i got home and...here i am. fuck.
I just want the shakey feeling to go away.
I usually have a delayed reaction adrenaline/shock wise, not this time. It hit me like a ton of bricks, but there's no way i could just sit there...I had to get back in traffic while those who were around me were aware of what just happened or had seen the tail end of it and knew to slow down to let me in (or had already slowed thinking there would be an accident). I got back in traffic almost imediateyl. Shaking and everything.
I wanted to call taz or my mom but i knew i had to concentrate. I had hlaf a mind to follow that car but i didn't know what i would do or say. I went from 60 to zzero, I'm sure its not good for my car. It was terrifying to boot and there was no accident though so what do i say to them?
Then ta z calls me minutes later, I pick up because i'm off the highway, and i start to tell him about it. I'm waiting at a stop sing and there's a bus ther efirst, then a car turning, then me, and the bus goes, the car turns....and after the bus left that spot a fourth car pulled up. I go after the second car on my turn, and suddenly the fourth car has started to turn into me (moving out of turn) and comes about 3 seconds from t=-boning me on my passenger side!
I had to honk to get him to stop even though iw as right in front of him! WTF?!
I started bawling on the phone with Taz (i had dropped it to slam on the horn) and then he had a customer and had to go. WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH PEOPLE?!
I had ten more minutes of city driving (lots of cars, small streets, low speed limits and lots of stop lights and pedestrians--so not fast but you have to be really aware and people driver stupider in the city than on the highway and there's less room for error and to get out of the way of teh dumbshit if necessary in the city) and then i got home and...here i am. fuck.
I just want the shakey feeling to go away.