:rant: <---- How I feel right now
3 close calls within 15 minutes, and NONE were my fault.
1st one:
I'm driving down a 2 lane road, up ahead to my right there is a freeway entrance/exit. The road im on is parallel to the freeway, the intersection where the freeway entrance/exit meets the road is like a T, with the vertical line being the freeway entrance/exit. So im moving along and up ahead, I see a red Jetta type car exiting the freeway and coming to a stop like he's supposed to. Staying at my same speed since I have the right of way, no stop sign or yield sign for the traffic on the road in my direction, I notice that the red car has let off the brake and is creeping forward so I let off the gas just in case. I didn't brake cause I figured he'd see me. :nono: dumbass enters the intersection to make a left turn, gets about halfway into the intersection, then decides to look to his left to see in any traffic is coming. All the while, im standing on my damn brake pedal and turning to the right to hopefully avoid a collision. Well, my efforts were just enough, well, kinda. There was no collision, thank the lord, but I grazed the rear driver side corner of his bumper w/my front corner of my front bumper. The "grazing" was so light that I didn't even feel it. I immediately pull over and get out to survey my car, just to make sure. As im getting out, I see the red car continue out of the intersection to the side of the road. I look at my bumper and see some scuff marks on it:angry: I rub it, kneel down to see how deep it is, seems superficial. As I get up, I see the red car pulling out and getting back on the freeway:angry: I was gonna run him down but after the oncoming traffic cleared enough for me to turn around and get on the freeway, he had a good 20-30 second jump on me so I said fawk it.
2nd one
10 minutes later)
Driving down El Camino, it's a two lane road each direction w/a turning lane in the middle for both directions of traffic. I'm in the slow lane, cruising along, and a fag in a black raggedy Toyota pick em up truck pulls out of the turning lane directly into my lane, I brake hard, no harm done. Except for pissing me off:angry:
Final one
not even two minutes later)
I pull into my apartment complex, doing the posted 5mph, road is clear, all of a sudden, one of Bebe's kids comes flying out of the carport,BETWEEN THE DAMN CARS THAT ARE PARKED
, and rolls his happy ass right into the driveway in front of me. I stopped immediately, he's looking at me, oblivious that he just pulled out in front of a moving car, and keeps truckin'. He was only like 6 or 7. I just sat there for a few seconds. Went on ahead and parked my car and came to the conclusion that im not driving anywhere tonight unless it's a life or death situation.
As im on my way in, I stopped to look at my bumper again, still pissed of in a major way. I start rubbing the graze marks again, trying to see if the black marks im seeing/feeling is the bumper itself(it's black underneath) or what, and the marks start coming off, if I rub them hard enough, they peel right off:yay: No damage done to my bumper. Although there is a small area on my depo corner that has some superficial scratches on it, but im sure I can buff those out. Whew, what an evening:shocked:
By the way, LPW=Long Post Warning
