Let's hope that bad things only happen in threes...
Today marks the third time in the past three years that I've almost gotten flattened by a very large truck. Key word: almost...so let's hope that the almost-truck flattening stops here. :)
Out of the three almost truck flattenings, this was the 2nd worst.
Almost truck-flattening #1: Summer, 2003...driving home from matc with my dad in the 2001 escort (keep in mind...a little, flimsy car) downtown Milwaukee on Kilbourn Ave. My dad and I were waiting at a red light on Kilbourn and Broadway, and when the light turned green, my dad looked left and then right before pulling out. Which is good, because a City of Milwaukee huge fucking dump truck blew the red light Broadway going really fucking fast, which would have hit the Escort right square on the door of the passenger side, which is where, you guessed, yours truly was sitting. That was the worst almost truck flattening by far...it was much worse than it sounds.
Almost truck-flattening #2: Summer, 2005...driving home from Appleton on Hampton Ave (also in the flimsy little red Escort). At Atkinson and Hampton, the light had turned yellow, so I slowed down because I was far enough away that I risked the chance of running a red light because I would have definitely blown through the red light, not just kind of skidded through at the last minute. Anyway, so I slowed down, and another fucking City of Milwaukee huge ass dump truck was behind me and, at the last minute, swerved around me to avoid flattening me (even though the light was already red)...I guess a good thing, but still not exactly very settling for the mind (wow, I almost got run over by a dump truck...again).
Almost truck-flattening #3: Today!!! I was driving north on Hwy S to get to work this morning. I should probably set it up that the company has a driveway right across another driveway (and the second driveway has trucks driving into it - often). So, I was driving up to the driveway for work (turning left) and a little bit down the way was a truck (a rather large truck!!!!!!!!) who had his turn signal on that would signal that hey, said truck was turning into the driveway across from the driveway that I was turning into, which would also mean that hey, I don't have to wait for the truck, 'cause his turn signal is on. Hey guess what?? The truck definitely wasn't turning. But luckily I've been managing to avoid getting flattened by a truck.
Yeah, I live on the edge. At least where trucks are concerned. :)
- posted by L. @ 5:36 PM