I just got some brownies in the oven. Nothing major, just a Betty Crocker mix. However, before that, I made a German cherry almond streusel cake that turned out well. It’s a little drier than I like my cakes to be, but it tastes nice. That thing was heck to prepare, though, if only because the batter was so thick and trying to spread it over top of slippery, prone-to-moving cherries was annoying. Hm, I just noticed I have allspice under my nails.
I’ve had a pleasant enough day so far. I went to Wal-mart this morning to buy gifts for Jess and my dad as well as to pick up cake ingredients, and was pleased to find something for Dad that I think he’ll like. I know he’ll like one part of it, and I’m pretty sure he’ll like the other. I may run by the post office this afternoon and mail it.
The drive back got me all riled up because, once again, some Mexican tried to hit me. What is it with bad Latino drivers and me? For those of you that remember, my car wreck last September was caused by some Mexican turning in front of me, and today some Hispanic man just pulled straight out into the road from a side road without stopping, pausing, or even looking. Naturally, I was in the lane that he was pulling into, so I had to swerve into the other lane and honk at the asshole.
We apparently have 14 miniature ducklings at home! I asked Mom to have Dad take photos for me.
Someday, you’re going to heed my oft-repeated warning that you have to drive as if everyone is out to get you. If you saw the car approaching the intersection, why did you assume it would follow the rules? You have to assume that drivers (and pedestrians, and low-flying aircraft (including pigs and frogs)) will do the dumbest, worst thing at precisely the right time to maximize the risk to you.
Read about the cardinal virtues. It’s not enough to simply realize what is the right thing to do; you have to also have the sense to do it and then actually do the right thing.
Complaining that the other driver is lousy and breaks the rules does not unmangle your car or resurrect any victims. Your job, when you’re behind the wheel, is to avoid all obstacles whether they are stationary or mobile. Your swerving into the other lane could have simply created another mult-car mangling. It would have been far better to anticipate that the car approaching the intersection was not going to follow the rules. You could then prepare your escape. Sounding the horn after the event is useless.
Somebody has a personal vendetta against Hispanics, eh….
Aww, no, not against Hispanics in general, just against the two that did and almost hit me. I just find it funny that two times I’ve been in/close to a wreck, it was because of a bad Hispanic driver.
Move up north. I rarely see hispanics around where I live :D
Whoa…
She’s just helping out the INS. The trouble is, she mistook ‘Sam N Max’ and ‘Doom’ for educational software.
Never make a noise like an Imp when she’s packing a gun.
I’m sorry that you had a bad experience with another Hispanic driver. Maybe they just don’t like you or your car. Anyway on a side note: I updated my blog….in case you want to read.
You’re Mexican driver kryptonite.