First, I'll start with the smaller stupids before getting to the near death incident involving my tiny little Honda Hatchback and a large 18-wheeler semi.
Red Lights are not suggestions
I don't know what was in these people's minds all at, but apparently red lights on busy intersections are now optional. Why didn't I get this memo? Several large semis, vans full of kids, you name it, they ran the lights like it was nothing. I watched one woman do something that makes me wonder if she wasn't drunk or high or something. We're sitting at a four way intersection, our road is two lanes and goes north/south. The west/east road is four lanes and extremely busy all of the time. This is later on in the day, not quite night, but the sun has sunk down behind the houses. We're at the light, waiting for it to turn (granted the light did take far longer than it normally does to change, but it was red, couldn't do anything, or so I thought). A beige mini-van is in front me, slowly creeping closer to the intersection, trying to trigger the sensor. Now, it's only been maybe two, two and half minutes, when W/E traffic slowed, this van thought that they were more important than everyone else and proceeds to creep into the intersection and then pulls RIGHT THROUGH THE RED LIGHT WITH TRAFFIC COMING FROM BOTH DIRECTIONS! Several cars had to slam on their brakes as not to take them out.
Great thing about it? Not even five seconds later, the light changed.
Winter is still here, deal with it
yes, I realize that it is nearly April and it's still cold and snowing. I know this time last year it was nearly 80F for almost a month. But, that was last year, this is this year. and sadly, we are still dealing with frigid cold temps and snow in the forecast. So, that being said, I really don't think it's asking too much to continue to take care of your car before heading out on your way, most notably, cleaning you car off completely. Your car is the same height and size as mine. I am a mere 5'6 and can easily reach every point of my with my brush or broom to clean the snow off, thus, your 6'something ass has no excuse for not cleaning your roof off (it is not a actual offense for not doing it, but if the snow flies off and hits someone and causes an accident, then they can be fined or even jailed depending), because all of that snow just hit my windsheild and nearly sent me over the large overpass we were climbing in the process. So fuck you buddy!
Near Death
So this is the big one. Me and my roommate were coming back up from Plain City (for those of you in Ohio, it's 30 minutes north of Columbus, little tiny town) from taking his 10 year old kid back to school after having him stay for the weekend (long personal story, but him and his ex had him, broke up, and now she's using the kid to get revenge for him leaving her (he had a good reason, trust me), by not allowing him full custody, but refusing to keep him if it "interferred" with her plans, ie if she wanted to get drunk and skank around, we had to go get him. Also, he doesn't have his license as of right now, thus me driving him down there.) We came up via 33 and switched over to 117 in Huntsville and followed that to Lima. Now here is the intersection in which this happened at. http://https://maps.google.com/maps?q=Intersection+of+Bowman+Rd+and+Bellfountaine +Rd,+Lima,+OH+&hl=en&ll=40.722584,-84.051347&spn=0.000898,0.00144&sll=40.722662,-84.05163&sspn=0.010164,0.023046&t=h&hnear=Bellfont aine+Rd+%26+Bowman+Rd,+Perry,+Allen,+Ohio+45804&z= 20 (may need to zoom in a bit to see it fully).
It's right before the fairgrounds, where 117 goes from two lanes to four. We were in the right line, the semi was in the left behind a crappy pick-up that seem to have the same acceleration problem my car has (can still go pretty fast but takes FOREVER to get up there). The light is red with them sitting waiting for it to turn as we're coming up to the lane widening. The light changes and the pick-up isn't moving fast enough for the semi apparently, so without looking and without signaling or anything, he decides to go into our lane. By this time, we were already beside the truck (note: when we came up, we had not been in his blind spot and I know he saw us there because he hesitated briefly before going it for it). Course, we're freaking out because it's the semi or a large curb that would tear up the bottom half my car. I originally slammed on the brakes, but we were already in the no return area, so I gunned it and wormed out of there. We get farther down and are just flipping out because of this asshole, cause he certainly would have crushed my tiny tin can. Then, to top it off, the bastard then spends the rest of drive to the main roadway on my ass (and this was a 55mph zone and I was doing nearly 65mph to get away from him. We turn onto the main road and then have to turn again onto I-75, where, still riding my house, nearly takes out my back end as I'm turning, not slowing down or anything. I got back to the house shaking, and then had to grab my stuff and head BACK that way to get to class. Needless to say, I was shook up for a bit. But really? Were you that impatient and that much of a jackass that you had to nearly kill us TWICE in a five minute span so you could go and sit in downtown traffic? My roommate looked for a number to call on the truck, but there wasn't one and he drove away too fast for us to get his cab number, so nothing came out of it.
Now, before fratching gets in here, my dad was a truck driver for a long time before his accident. I am always conscience of where they are, where their blind spots are, etc, but this guy and a few others here lately have just pissed me off to no end. You want me to respect you while on the road, you gotta respect the fact that my car is merely a bug on your grill with the size difference. So please, be aware of other drivers and they'll do the same for you.
Leaving on a good note
My last note is good one. Just got a call back today from the FastDirection gas station (obviously not the name, but most of you will figure it out, hopefully) and after nearly two and half years of being unemployed, I finally have a job! It has been a great day so far simply because of that. I have orientation Monday, and don't know when I'll officially start, but dear lord am I happy.
Red Lights are not suggestions
I don't know what was in these people's minds all at, but apparently red lights on busy intersections are now optional. Why didn't I get this memo? Several large semis, vans full of kids, you name it, they ran the lights like it was nothing. I watched one woman do something that makes me wonder if she wasn't drunk or high or something. We're sitting at a four way intersection, our road is two lanes and goes north/south. The west/east road is four lanes and extremely busy all of the time. This is later on in the day, not quite night, but the sun has sunk down behind the houses. We're at the light, waiting for it to turn (granted the light did take far longer than it normally does to change, but it was red, couldn't do anything, or so I thought). A beige mini-van is in front me, slowly creeping closer to the intersection, trying to trigger the sensor. Now, it's only been maybe two, two and half minutes, when W/E traffic slowed, this van thought that they were more important than everyone else and proceeds to creep into the intersection and then pulls RIGHT THROUGH THE RED LIGHT WITH TRAFFIC COMING FROM BOTH DIRECTIONS! Several cars had to slam on their brakes as not to take them out.
Great thing about it? Not even five seconds later, the light changed.
Winter is still here, deal with it
yes, I realize that it is nearly April and it's still cold and snowing. I know this time last year it was nearly 80F for almost a month. But, that was last year, this is this year. and sadly, we are still dealing with frigid cold temps and snow in the forecast. So, that being said, I really don't think it's asking too much to continue to take care of your car before heading out on your way, most notably, cleaning you car off completely. Your car is the same height and size as mine. I am a mere 5'6 and can easily reach every point of my with my brush or broom to clean the snow off, thus, your 6'something ass has no excuse for not cleaning your roof off (it is not a actual offense for not doing it, but if the snow flies off and hits someone and causes an accident, then they can be fined or even jailed depending), because all of that snow just hit my windsheild and nearly sent me over the large overpass we were climbing in the process. So fuck you buddy!
Near Death
So this is the big one. Me and my roommate were coming back up from Plain City (for those of you in Ohio, it's 30 minutes north of Columbus, little tiny town) from taking his 10 year old kid back to school after having him stay for the weekend (long personal story, but him and his ex had him, broke up, and now she's using the kid to get revenge for him leaving her (he had a good reason, trust me), by not allowing him full custody, but refusing to keep him if it "interferred" with her plans, ie if she wanted to get drunk and skank around, we had to go get him. Also, he doesn't have his license as of right now, thus me driving him down there.) We came up via 33 and switched over to 117 in Huntsville and followed that to Lima. Now here is the intersection in which this happened at. http://https://maps.google.com/maps?q=Intersection+of+Bowman+Rd+and+Bellfountaine +Rd,+Lima,+OH+&hl=en&ll=40.722584,-84.051347&spn=0.000898,0.00144&sll=40.722662,-84.05163&sspn=0.010164,0.023046&t=h&hnear=Bellfont aine+Rd+%26+Bowman+Rd,+Perry,+Allen,+Ohio+45804&z= 20 (may need to zoom in a bit to see it fully).
It's right before the fairgrounds, where 117 goes from two lanes to four. We were in the right line, the semi was in the left behind a crappy pick-up that seem to have the same acceleration problem my car has (can still go pretty fast but takes FOREVER to get up there). The light is red with them sitting waiting for it to turn as we're coming up to the lane widening. The light changes and the pick-up isn't moving fast enough for the semi apparently, so without looking and without signaling or anything, he decides to go into our lane. By this time, we were already beside the truck (note: when we came up, we had not been in his blind spot and I know he saw us there because he hesitated briefly before going it for it). Course, we're freaking out because it's the semi or a large curb that would tear up the bottom half my car. I originally slammed on the brakes, but we were already in the no return area, so I gunned it and wormed out of there. We get farther down and are just flipping out because of this asshole, cause he certainly would have crushed my tiny tin can. Then, to top it off, the bastard then spends the rest of drive to the main roadway on my ass (and this was a 55mph zone and I was doing nearly 65mph to get away from him. We turn onto the main road and then have to turn again onto I-75, where, still riding my house, nearly takes out my back end as I'm turning, not slowing down or anything. I got back to the house shaking, and then had to grab my stuff and head BACK that way to get to class. Needless to say, I was shook up for a bit. But really? Were you that impatient and that much of a jackass that you had to nearly kill us TWICE in a five minute span so you could go and sit in downtown traffic? My roommate looked for a number to call on the truck, but there wasn't one and he drove away too fast for us to get his cab number, so nothing came out of it.
Now, before fratching gets in here, my dad was a truck driver for a long time before his accident. I am always conscience of where they are, where their blind spots are, etc, but this guy and a few others here lately have just pissed me off to no end. You want me to respect you while on the road, you gotta respect the fact that my car is merely a bug on your grill with the size difference. So please, be aware of other drivers and they'll do the same for you.
Leaving on a good note
My last note is good one. Just got a call back today from the FastDirection gas station (obviously not the name, but most of you will figure it out, hopefully) and after nearly two and half years of being unemployed, I finally have a job! It has been a great day so far simply because of that. I have orientation Monday, and don't know when I'll officially start, but dear lord am I happy.
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