First off... DAMN YOU WALMART. Been out and about looking for a heaty blanket because the house i'm living in gets to be -31239123 degrees at night. It's basically like there are no windows at all. I get out of the shower in the morning and the steam is just radiating off my bod, and then about 5 minutes later my hair is nearly an icicle. It is literally frigid. So cold right now that my fingers are going numb. Well anyway today I went to Wal-Mart (Target yesterday) and was planning on making it an in and out mission. But of course as soon as I walk into the store BAM, 'ween candy up the wazz. Now normally i'd be like 'f that crap, way too expensive for my taste buds', but of course they had to put up some damn '50% off Halloween Candy' signs. So naturally I have to browse for some deals. And i'm figuring that nothing in the entire store could be that expensive and of course they have NO PRICES on them whatsoever. Well guess what... everything is still friggin expensive. I bought a bag of candy that was $20 bucks, so it cost me $10! I was expecting $2.50 or something.... it was terrible. I know ten isn't a lot, but I mean.. I would not have gone for it at all. Obviously couldn't back out of the transaction because when I realized how much it was as the lady scanned it, the line was a billion people long behind me and people were already yelling a bit (wtf, is this the speedy chexout or what!). So now I have a 20lb, $10 bag of candy to eat. Fat as can be in t-minus 1 week. FAIL.
Secondly, I'm about to rant HARD on the wonderful dummys share the road with me. Let me just say that I don't consider myself a perfect driver. I don't always make the smart move when it comes to driving, but on the whole, I like to think I do a pretty decent job of respecting the road, other people, and my sweet little bullpup (mah car). Now I've had some time to think and I've decided that there are generally 5 different kinds of driving (not drivers, but ways of driving... anyone can drive these ways (even the last one)). They are as follows: Aggressive, Passive, Oblivious, Dumb and Old driving. Lets run through them one at a time:
1. Aggressive: This is the kinda guy who passed me on the road today. I don't usually drive slow, in fact most of the time I'm gunnin' it around town doing 7 or 8 mph over minimum. When I see someone riding my ass and I'm going above the speed limit already I have 1 of 2 moves that I usually pull. One is to slow down to the speed limit and just start laughing. The other is to just accelerate to a good 20 or 30 mph over the limit and cruise away. So when this guy was riding my ass today I decided to employ technique #1, I just slowed down to a crawl (I knew there was a traffic light which usually has a bunch of traffic just over the hill). After decelerating to the max, this guy proceeds to pass me on a double yellow lined road. Now I've been in a hurry before so I know what it's like to want the guy in front to go faster, but never would I ever pass someone like that (or tailgate them like he was to me), it's just a bad move for a ton of reasons. So as this dude passes me I'm like whaaat, but then I laugh cause I know he's about to hit a butt ton of traffic, which of course he does! So I basically pull up behind him as close as could be and just keep inching and inching, throw on the high beams too of course. The dude then pops out of the lane again but this time on the right and flies down the shoulder and through a motha flippin red light!! It was nuts. Like for reallz with you and your absurd driving?! Dude must have been preggers & birthing. Just don't enjoy being that kind of driver or being pursued by one. I usually only hit aggressive mode when someone does something really stupid, but even then I usually just curse really loud in an absurd kinda voice which proceeds to make me laugh which then turns into me shrugging it off. A wish for people to chill out in this econ, it would reduce the # of accidents. FOR REAL.
I'll continue my next couple posts with some descriptions of encounters with these other types of driving (and perhaps my experiences driving that way).
did you even get a blanket?
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