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Sunday April 18th 2004 09:41 AM PST

while driving the one way stretch of huntington drive yesterday (next to arcadia golf course), A golf ball came down at a near vertical trajectory to the pavement. It hit about 6 feet in front of my car while i was going about 50Mph (For Milkshake thats about 80KMph). It bounced back so quickly that Jen missed it completely. I started laughing a very sadistic laugh thinking about the possibility of me going just a little faster from the last traffic light. Jen asked me what the hell i was laughing about, and at that point i realized she missed it. I quickly explained and her eyes got HUGE as she looked over at the people playing golf. With her close contact with golf balls, i don't think she's going to drive that section of Huntington again.

Then about a few seconds later, i'm still going about 50, and now in the center lane of this road. A car turns into the flow of traffic without looking. He turns from the left side of the street and drops directly into the center lane. And he has the common decency to do this about 30 feet in front of me. So i have to swerve to avoid hitting him.

Two blocks later i make a left onto Colorado, and there i drop into the right lane. As soon as i make the turn there is a small street that intersects Colorado. This street has a stop-sign Colorado has none. A nice little old woman comes barreling down this street, ignores the stop-sign, THEN looks to her left, sees me coming right at her, and promptly slams her breaks on to bring her to a stop directly in front of me in the right lane of Colorado. Again, i have to swerve to avoid an accident.

Then finally, i'm on the 210 freeway at the California/Colorado exit ramp (which really should be the 210/710 interchange, but we'll get into that later). There are two lanes that may exit, and I'm in the leftmost of these two lanes. I got into this lane to pass a LARGE truck that had made two lane changes already to get to his position of the right exit lane. (both previous lane changes were not signaled) So go figure that as soon as i am passing this truck, he decided to make another un-signaled lane change directly into the side of my car. Now this time, as well as to swerve (and not into another lane of traffic cause thats just stupid. I had to go partway onto the shoulder) I had to also use my horn cause this dumbass didn't even look when he was making the lane change.

So i have not been in an accident in awhile. I know that my number is up. Thats just the odds of it. My odds were a lot better a week ago when i was not driving 50 miles across los angeles every day. I guess i should not complain. I do have a job. I guess the question i have is... given the 4 possibilities, which accident, if all were unavoidable, would you choose to be in?

1. Golf Ball Impact (50mph)
2. Rear End the non-right-of-way merging traffic (50mph)
3. T-Bone the Old Lady(45mph)
4. Front-right side impact ("get stepped on") by a Pickup (70mph)

Comments:

I would choose #5. Not getting in the car with you cause you have some shit ass luck when it comes to driving ;-)

Posted by: Jason D-

I'd take #1. Golf Ball, if #6. Take public transport is not available. Better yet #7. Teleport.

Posted by: Angelo

Sounds like Dave and I have the worst luck when it comes to driving. :P

Posted by: Koganuts

I'm glad to see teleportation made it's way into another conversation :-) Also no offense intended here, but if you drive aggressively you will have things like this happen to you. Not because you can't handle driving at that speed, but because other drivers on the road are too unpredictable and/or stupid.

Posted by: Yams