Yesterday evening around 6:30 I was heading East on a fairly major street. The sun was in such a place it was quite difficult to see what the traffic light was signaling. I didn't notice until I was feet away from the line and had a big white SUV crossing directly in front of me that the light was in fact red...
I firmly and quickly hit the breaks while I was heading directly for the side of the SUV I noticed the look on the driver who had what I am guessing was a terrified and or panicked look on her face, which looked pretty goofy really, possibly an attempt to brace/shield from impact her free arm. I was still moving forwards physics said no to stopping in time and I was getting closer to the side of the white mammoth. So I turned to the right, my tires only protested by making a slight screech.
It was over. I turned around and made a right back on to the road of which I had been on moments before and continued along my merry little way. I realized a couple moments later that the whole ordeal hardly phased me. I didn't get the "wholly fuck that was scary shit and I coulda died or been hurt" adrenaline rush that I'm fairly sure the driver of the sport utility vehicle had. Which makes the whole thing seem like just another drive...
Posted by Ben at September 21, 2007 12:32 PM