04/01/2006
Hmmmmmmm....How could anyone have more!! Well I guess this isn't so much "painful memories" but youthful idiocy...for lack of better words! My good friend has brought to my attention somemore vehicular anomolies! HA! My teenage days are filled with them! Whether I was driving or some other teen with an "I am INVINCIBLE!!" attitude! I guess that is just how we grow-up! And then reality hits and "WHOA!!!" What I was I thinking??? Ok so back to the stories at hand...these were great...how could I have forgotten them? They also brought up a few others that I have to put down! I don't remember why exactly, but we were headed to St. Johns....a small forgettable town, that I have no idea how it is still there...course I could say the same for the town I grew up in! Anyway, I am getting off the subject! So here we are driving to St. Johns....The road was a little rough and I got irritated with it...............so having the attitude that I own the world and can do as I please I decided to drive on the other side of the road. No problem...it was night after all! We would see cars coming from miles away! RIGHT?!?!?! Well we are driving along and we see this light...it was a strange light...it didn't even seem to be moving...so I stay put.....hmmmmmm....it's getting closer, but do I budge...NO WAY! This thing is gonna move before I do!! Thats for sure! Closer and closer still....ok I guess it is time to get over! Just in time to see a man on a bicycle, flsh by the drivers side window!!!!!! First of all what in the world is he doing out in the middle of nowhere on a bike??? And why is he in the road when a car is driving right at him??? Forget the fact that I am on the wrong side of the road here! That is irrelevant! I almost hit a man becasue he was on the road! :O Ok that was my attitude then...I have changed! And the best part about this story is....a little while passed and we were driving, my friend and I, she was driving this time....and she swurves all the sudden...and as she swurves I see this reflector on the side of the road...And I was like what's up?!!? She says "I thought that was a bike on the side of the road!!" HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!! Man I truly ruined the poor girl! She had no chance being friends with me! Then there was the time my best friend, my mom, my sis and I were all coming home from Show Low (the place you have to mention for people to remotely have a clue where I am from! Yeah, just keep going east! You can't miss it! HA!) I was driving along...it was night...and I hada soda...Well....who needs a cell phone to be distracted??? NOT ME! I was busy propping it up next to me...I guess there were no cup holders...and so there I was propping it up and I hear "Ummmmm...Brand..." Very calm like. So I look up thinking...what?!?! I am driving off the road...my mom starts freakin' out! I nearly hit a reflector on the side of the road, I jerk back on the road...I can only say I am glad is was my friend in the seat next to me. Otherwise my mom would have freaked out and freaked me out and who knows what would have happened! Well...reminding me of those brought up all kinds of other stories thhat I could put here! But that could go on for years! So I guess thats enough for now! :D These days I guess my driving hasn't changed much! Only now it isn't because I am trying to cheat death...rather dealing with those teenagers(that I now cuss every chance I get!) that I used to be! Yep, swerving this way and that, cuz one is on there CELL PHONE! ( I won't get started with this one! That's a whole other rant!!!!) Cuz of one kid or another trying to kill the other in the back seat...a baby screaming...a almost three year old still stuck in the terrible twos, screaming because I guess she has decided thats the way she likes to be heard the best! I haven't figured that one out yet! Dodging the wonderful people out there who just cut you off cuz they think where they need to get this morning is more important than where you need to be, or more important than your life for that matter! Driving 100 MPH (hmmm...guess I am being a hypocrite here, but I never cut anyone off, I PROMISE!!) to get the kids to school on time, while still in my pj's...who knows when I last took a shower! WHO HAS TIME FOR THAT!!!