Dammit. Some brain-dead soccer mom overshot a crosswalk and then decided to throw it into reverse without looking as I was crossing behind her and hit me. Thankfully I got an arm up and it only knocked me back and bloodied some knuckles rather than getting a body hit in on me, but I am PISSED.
The whole earth may be sucked into Hell, and you want my help 'cause your girlfriend's a big ho?
Buffy ,'Chosen'
Natter 71: Someone is wrong on the Internet
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Matt the Bruins fan - May 14, 2013 2:36:15 pm PDT #22429 of 30001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Beverly - May 14, 2013 2:38:33 pm PDT #22430 of 30001
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
Jeebus, Matt. The protocol for getting hit is to fling yourself on the ground and roll around like the dying chipmunk and then sue for damages, right?
I'm glad you only got bloody knuckles, but stupidity at the wheel should come at a price.
Matt the Bruins fan - May 14, 2013 2:43:00 pm PDT #22431 of 30001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
What I should have done is order her to pull over when the light turned green and called the police - it's just blind luck that she didn't run someone over. (That crosswalk is between a parking lot and a block with several bars and restaurants, so there is *always* foot traffic.) But I was too rattled to do anything except wave my arms and swear at her.
Liese S. - May 14, 2013 2:43:42 pm PDT #22432 of 30001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
Shit, Matt! I'm glad you're mostly okay!
beth b - May 14, 2013 2:51:09 pm PDT #22433 of 30001
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
Glad you are ok,if shaken, Matt
Sorry to hear about uncle bud.
Consuela - May 14, 2013 2:57:35 pm PDT #22434 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
I really like the RadioLab format, but my sister hates it.
But I am running out of podcasts since I started listening to them while turning weekly forecasts into monthly.
-t, I like "Stuff You Should Know" and "Stuff You Missed in History Class"; also "To the Best of Our Knowledge" and "A History of the World in 100 Objects". There's also a bunch of history podcasts like the history of the Byzantine empire and stuff like that.
Fictionally, I listen to a ton of audiobooks and if you're interested, I can hook you up with some next time we meet. Also there's Librivox, which is free audiobooks of books in the public domain, recorded by volunteers. Some of the readers are really good (and some aren't, so it's kind of a crapshoot).
Consuela - May 14, 2013 2:58:41 pm PDT #22435 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Yikes, Matt! Glad you're okay!
Juliebird - May 14, 2013 3:04:57 pm PDT #22436 of 30001
I am the fly who dreams of the spider
Christ, some people are extremely stupid in their cars.
I remember coming up on a stop sign and the person stopped at it decided to roll in reverse. I of course froze in a panic in my car as they wailed into me. And that actually wasn't the first time someone decided to fling into reverse and jam on the gas (the first one was the military chaplain, who never did pay me back for my headlight).
Glad you're relatively alright, Matt.
Jesse - May 14, 2013 3:25:48 pm PDT #22437 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Oh man, Matt! And she just drove away?? WTF.
-t - May 14, 2013 3:28:38 pm PDT #22438 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Yikes, Matt! Glad you weren't badly hurt!
Post marked, Consuela. TTBOOK is one of my standards, I'm betting some of those history 'casts will fill the bill. Audiobooks almost have to be something I've already read to be listen-while-I-do-something-else fodder, but that could work. I would love some kind of subliminal learning thing that would just drone in my ears without me really paying attention and eventually I could speak Italian or something, but that probably does not actually exist.