Yesterday I took my car in for an alignment. Since Firestone was just a 1/2 mile or so up the road, I dropped it off and walked home and walked back to pick it up a few hours later. As I approached the intersection, I checked both ways before crossing and made sure the light still indicated my right of way...because I know how to obey traffic rules. Suddenly out of nowhere, a car came barreling around the corner and missed hitting me by just a few inches. Now my first instinct of course was self preservation, so I quickly jumped out of the way. Amazingly, she wasn't stopping. She was either clueless to my near death experience, or just so self-important that it didn't matter to her. My next instinct, after realizing the woman (on her cell phone) had slowed ever so slightly to complete her turn, was an outraged kick to her bumper.
Well of course this caught her attention, though nearly killing me didn't. She pulled over and rolled her window down and stared at me with arms in the air as if to say, "Did you really just kick my car?" So I shouted, "Yes you self absorbed idiot, I kicked your bumper. How about checking for pedestrians next time." I quickly regained my senses and kept walking, leaving my almost-assailant staring in disbelief.
I'm not totally proud if the little scene I created, but the moral of the story is this: If you think your agenda is so important that you don't have time to follow simple traffic rules, (like yielding to pedestrians) you need a swift kick in the...uh...bumper.
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I would have done the same thing! Infact, I did do the same thing!! Remember my walking through the parking lot story and having to lift Brooklyn up and over the back side of the car to avoid us being hit. Yeah, well I don't think my kick had ever packed so much punch! My word exchange was alot more than yours though...good job for staying composed!
And in reply to your comment on my blog - I never watched the news. Infact, I let my kids eat all the candy they wanted all day saturday! I know, hard to believe, but they were in heaven all day!! Thanks again, you rock sis!
I LOVE IT THAT'S AWESOME - NO - YOU'RE FREAKIN AWESOME!
I disagree, your reaction was totally appropriate! Much better than James's reaction to a car that came inches from hitting Kellan in our shopping cart in the Target parking lot.
My reaction wouldn't have been PG rating. I'm proud of you for reacting, and a little surprised that you said that!
I am proud of you for reacting like that!!!! People need wake-up calls like that!! Way to be Heather!
I'm glad you are ok too.
Holy crap...stupid people...
Wow! Stupid people!
My family is doing great! They are doing some work on the house, painting and tiling and such. It looks good. As far as the colors, they were pretty much gone when we went. I was sad.
So glad to hear you escaped death. I definitely don't think you over-reacted. You go, girl!
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