(Celtic) New Year's Resolution
Nov. 1st, 2006 07:10 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
acroyearI am now hereby no longer to complain when my wife tells me (whether in a concerned way or nagging) that she thinks I'm driving too close to the car in front of me no matter how far away I think I am...
...'cause tonite, keeping my distance kept me out of one hell of an accident in Reston on my way home.
Nobody hurt.
The kid in front of me just kept right on going right into a backup to the stoplight of Reston Parkway and Baron Cameron. Everybody was stopped, the light could be seen and was still red, the kid just wasn't paying attention and...WHAM...
Depth perception's a bitch, isn't it?
I was the car immediately behind the kid (about 3 car lengths and breaking 'cause *I* saw the redlight and the back-up...) so I stuck around to be a witness when the cop arrived.
I'm guessing the kid doesn't know the neighborhood 'cause he was telling his mom that he was there because he was shopping in Tysons (yes, 10 miles away through a significant rush-hour backup as it was just to get to Reston Parkway), yet he said his mom was in Maryland and he didn't know how to tell her to get to where he was. I didn't bother to see if the kid's plates were MD or not. I did tell the kid she was (merely by being in MD) at least an hour away at this time of night.
go fig.
...'cause tonite, keeping my distance kept me out of one hell of an accident in Reston on my way home.
Nobody hurt.
The kid in front of me just kept right on going right into a backup to the stoplight of Reston Parkway and Baron Cameron. Everybody was stopped, the light could be seen and was still red, the kid just wasn't paying attention and...WHAM...
Depth perception's a bitch, isn't it?
I was the car immediately behind the kid (about 3 car lengths and breaking 'cause *I* saw the redlight and the back-up...) so I stuck around to be a witness when the cop arrived.
I'm guessing the kid doesn't know the neighborhood 'cause he was telling his mom that he was there because he was shopping in Tysons (yes, 10 miles away through a significant rush-hour backup as it was just to get to Reston Parkway), yet he said his mom was in Maryland and he didn't know how to tell her to get to where he was. I didn't bother to see if the kid's plates were MD or not. I did tell the kid she was (merely by being in MD) at least an hour away at this time of night.
go fig.
