Tuesday, January 31, 2006
It was an Accident
Tonight, for the second time in two weeks, I witnessed a car accident.
The first one was at the intersection of Route 16 and Boston Ave. Those of you familiar with the area will remember the Gibbs gas station on the corner. I was first in line at the red light, with the gas station immediately to my right. There was a food delivery car in the middle of the intersection, trying to turn left toward me. I guess he got a little too close to the other opposite lane, because suddenly there was a honk, screeching tires, and boom! The delivery car had the front corner of his car clipped by a car going about 40 mph, his headlight shattering all over the intersection. The weird thing was that I could see the reaction of the twenty-something driver and it was almost non-existant. No swearing, fist shaking, pounding of the steering wheel -- nothing. Maybe he was just glad to have an excuse to be late to his next delivery.
Tonight, I had just finished putting groceries in my car and was getting myself situated in the front seat. For whatever reason, I didn't drive away immediately, but took a minute to listen to the end of a talk radio segment. I was looking at the entrance of the parking lot, where a black SUV had it's blinker on, waiting for traffic to clear in the other lane so it could turn into the parking lot. Coming out of the parking lot was a U-Haul van. The driver of the van either had bad eyesight or just forgot to look the other way before exiting the lot, because they gunned it and drove right into the driver's side door of the SUV. It was so strange to witness, because I saw it coming the whole way, thinking "They're not really going to hit th -- Oh. I stand corrected."
Speaking of accidents, couldn't Lindsay Lohan have fallen down the stairs at someone else's mansion? It's like the guy just won't go away.
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The first one was at the intersection of Route 16 and Boston Ave. Those of you familiar with the area will remember the Gibbs gas station on the corner. I was first in line at the red light, with the gas station immediately to my right. There was a food delivery car in the middle of the intersection, trying to turn left toward me. I guess he got a little too close to the other opposite lane, because suddenly there was a honk, screeching tires, and boom! The delivery car had the front corner of his car clipped by a car going about 40 mph, his headlight shattering all over the intersection. The weird thing was that I could see the reaction of the twenty-something driver and it was almost non-existant. No swearing, fist shaking, pounding of the steering wheel -- nothing. Maybe he was just glad to have an excuse to be late to his next delivery.
Tonight, I had just finished putting groceries in my car and was getting myself situated in the front seat. For whatever reason, I didn't drive away immediately, but took a minute to listen to the end of a talk radio segment. I was looking at the entrance of the parking lot, where a black SUV had it's blinker on, waiting for traffic to clear in the other lane so it could turn into the parking lot. Coming out of the parking lot was a U-Haul van. The driver of the van either had bad eyesight or just forgot to look the other way before exiting the lot, because they gunned it and drove right into the driver's side door of the SUV. It was so strange to witness, because I saw it coming the whole way, thinking "They're not really going to hit th -- Oh. I stand corrected."
Speaking of accidents, couldn't Lindsay Lohan have fallen down the stairs at someone else's mansion? It's like the guy just won't go away.
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