Wednesday/Thursday, 8-15/16, 2007
We'll get into Thursday first. Rushing to work as usual, I decide to do 60mph on the streets and when I got on the freeway I hiked it up to 80 (in a 55 zone) quickly. When I realized I was in the area where all the Indiana State Police love to hide I tried to slow down. And yeah you guessed it, he got me before I could slow all the way down.
When he came to the window I preceeded to beg him for mercy, teary-eyed. And to my delight he gave me a warning. Now I get to freak out every time I see an State Policeman's car on the freeway, thinking he's going to pull me over and give me that much feared ticket. That's Thursday.
Now on to Wednesday. I left school around 8:45 and it was beginning to storm, and it felt like it was going to be a big one. But me being me, I decide to drive through it anyway (did I mention this is tornado season). At first not much was going on but wind, but then the rain came.... Now I'm usually fine when it's pouring down outside, but even with the windshield wipers on the highest setting I couldn't see a thing and I pulled over.
About 5 mins. later while I was waiting for the storm to pass, it started to feel like I was in one of those weird natural disaster movies like Twister with old girl from Mad About You. The wind was blowing so hard the car was swaying and it felt like it was going to be lifted up in the air. The rain had kind of a tunnel effect going and I couldn't see anything in front or to the side of me and the hail sounded like it was going to crack a windsheild. That woulda been just my luck, a busted windshield and it feels like I'm sitting under Niagra Falls, only one that's about 40 times bigger. During those few minutes all I could think to do was pray.
So after the hail and rain pass I drive home and I realize I stopped at the best possible spot. If I would have stopped further up like I wanted to, I probably would have had a pole fall over on me. I would've been fried (but I would have smelled good because of my coconut/lime lotion). Thankfully, God works everything out and I escaped unscathed.
The rest of the ride home was cool, besides some jerk on the oncoming side of traffic speeding up to keep me from swerving over to save my life and my car when they saw me getting ready to slam into some tree branches . I hate people like that, be polite. Anyway, as soon as I got out of the car what does the rain decide to do? Come down on me as hard as possible. Those were my little adventures for the week, hopefully they'll be no more natural disasters or traffic violations.
Until next time,
JB
