Wednesday, October 18

these mean streets

in the spirit of the bad luck exhibited by my last posting, i'm adding a part deux to a "crazy things that happened to me this week" series. i hope this will be the last installment - i don't know how much i can handle!

on my way home from the gym monday, i remembered i had a prescription to pick up at walgreen's, which meant i would make a right onto southwest instead of a left. when the light turned green (no rights on red, I AM LAW ABIDING!), i made my right and felt a large THUNK! against my car.

"what was that?" i wondered, squinting into my rearview mirror. it was raining and hard to see what looked like a yellow piece of plastic flapping in the breeze.

"must be some kind of construction thing," i thought, until i saw A MAN wearing a poncho in the STREET PICKING UP HIS BICYCLE. holy shit!!!!

he seemed OK, but i turned around anyway, yelling out the window "are you ok?" shit shit shit i can't believe i just hit this guy on a bike! this guy who had apparently materialized out of thin air! this is going to be a huge and expensive hassle....

he gave me a thumbs-up. "i'm ok. thanks for stopping. that was my fault." and away he pedaled.

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