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After work, Michele and I went out to see Joe at his shop. She’s looking to get some work done and they were meeting to discus the plan and make a stencil of her leg. That all went swimmingly and I headed home afterwards.

I live on a dead end street. Getting to it requires driving down the beginning of the road and making a clean 90 degree turn at one point, which then has another 90 degree turn to take an other street to a main road. If you don’t take the second street, you head straight down towards my apartment. You can see a Google map here if you’re not sure what I mean. I live on Chestnut, btw.

Oh, and it’s important to note that these roads here aren’t big enough for two cars to drive down side-by-side due to people parking. You typically need to pull off to let someone by when there’s two-way traffic. I personally think the route should be one-way, but that’s just me.

As I approach the first 90 degree turn, I’m behind two cars. The lead car goes around it and goes to make a left onto Glenvale. Coming up to the top of Glenvale is another car, so the usual clusterfuck of “oh shit, there’s no way we can pass each other” ensues. The lead car decides that it’s going to just back up. The car in front of me decides that it too is going to back up. It also decided it’s going to do this without seeing what’s behind it.

So, I see reverse lights go on and I honk. Reverse lights still stay on and the car starts moving backwards – so I lay on the horn. I figured this was a clear “Hey, please don’t hit me” plea. Then I get hit.

Fucking awesome.

It was low speed and I’m in a jeep. I was hoping to have cracked the car’s bumper, but no luck. My car is fine. The lady got out and was very apologetic, but I was just in a “Yeah, pay more attention you friggin idiot” mood. It wasn’t so much the “I got hit” part that ticked me off as it was the “You’re in the fucking road and backing up without looking behind you?!?!?!” part. And it’s not like you can’t see me if you looked – I’m in a big yellow jeep!

So yeah… I was frustrated after that.

What the fuck is wrong with people?!?!