is today over yet?
Jun. 18th, 2004 03:12 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sabineI want the working day to be over. I think in another hour or so I can escape without catching flak from anyone...though I'm going to be here all weekend, too. Yeah, I know I should be writing my prelim, but I can't seem to get in The Zone and don't want to write drivel that'll be more of a bitch to edit than just waiting for tomorrow.
Heh. Read this article this morning. I'm not really sure if I believe what they claim, but it's pretty entertaining.
So, this morning I almost got into a nasty car wreck.
And before you say anything, I'd just like to point out that it wasn't my fault AT ALL. If anything, it would've happened because I was following traffic laws. Let's refer to the handy diagram below for the rest of the explanation.
There is a 4-way stop near my home that really should be a traffic light. The city of Madison, in its infinite wisdom, has decreed that it's not that important of an intersection, but I digress.
I'm the blue car, waiting to turn left. Across the intersection from me are two cars. The red car was at the stop sign when I pulled up, with the green car right behind him. I waited for the red car to go through the intersection. When he was through, I began my turn, being under the impression that I was next because I was at the stop sign before the green car got to his.
When I was halfway through the turn, the green car decided to go. I slammed on my brakes, stopping in the middle of the intersection while the bastard in the green car sailed right through. He didn't make eye contact or give any other signs that he'd even noticed that I was there. Bastard. Idiot. grrrr....
Bah. I love this town, but traffic laws are more along the lines of polite suggestions, and people here seem to forget that they have to pay attention to what's going on around them as soon as they slide behind the wheel. *sigh*
Quotes of the Day
When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.
-- Oscar Wilde, An Ideal husband, 1893
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
-- Martin Luther King Jr.
First there is a time when we believe everything, then for a little while we believe with discrimination, then we believe nothing whatever, and then we believe everything again - and, moreover, give reasons why we believe.
-- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Heh. Read this article this morning. I'm not really sure if I believe what they claim, but it's pretty entertaining.
So, this morning I almost got into a nasty car wreck.
And before you say anything, I'd just like to point out that it wasn't my fault AT ALL. If anything, it would've happened because I was following traffic laws. Let's refer to the handy diagram below for the rest of the explanation.
There is a 4-way stop near my home that really should be a traffic light. The city of Madison, in its infinite wisdom, has decreed that it's not that important of an intersection, but I digress.
I'm the blue car, waiting to turn left. Across the intersection from me are two cars. The red car was at the stop sign when I pulled up, with the green car right behind him. I waited for the red car to go through the intersection. When he was through, I began my turn, being under the impression that I was next because I was at the stop sign before the green car got to his.
When I was halfway through the turn, the green car decided to go. I slammed on my brakes, stopping in the middle of the intersection while the bastard in the green car sailed right through. He didn't make eye contact or give any other signs that he'd even noticed that I was there. Bastard. Idiot. grrrr....
Bah. I love this town, but traffic laws are more along the lines of polite suggestions, and people here seem to forget that they have to pay attention to what's going on around them as soon as they slide behind the wheel. *sigh*
Quotes of the Day
When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.
-- Oscar Wilde, An Ideal husband, 1893
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
-- Martin Luther King Jr.
First there is a time when we believe everything, then for a little while we believe with discrimination, then we believe nothing whatever, and then we believe everything again - and, moreover, give reasons why we believe.
-- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
