week 7: A Series of Unfortunate Events

    A Series of Unfortunate Events is a good way to summarize what it is like to drive with me. It isn't that I am a bad driver or have no idea what i'm doing, but bad situations always have a way of finding me while i'm in my car. While these bad situations I mentioned happen pretty regularly there seems to have been a surge of them this past week. If you read my previous post then you know that I was pulled over for the very first time last week. And while that was technically my fault for almost hitting a cop's car, I also attribute it partly to the confusing intersection and my bad luck. Another event that left me shook while driving this past week was when one of Orange County's wild green parrots flung himself into my windshield.(RIP) I did not set out that day to kill a bird, nor did my car, but that is what we did. I cried for about 10 minutes for that dumb bird and though he may have been suicidal, I wish I hadn't contributed my part in his death. I own a very depressed, certainly suicidal turtle (a story for another time) , so this hit close to home. Speaking of hitting things close to home, while driving back from school, someone who was definitely on drugs almost walked right into my car on purpose as I made a right turn. If it hadn't been for my fast reflexes and quick thinking, she could have ended up just like my poor green parrot, or slightly injured collecting insurance money, who knows. As I slowed to make my turn, I made eye contact with this person and thought we had a mutual understanding of what was happening, little did I know, I had been played a fool. Lucky for both of us, I realized that she had some kind of wild idea and I swerved away from her. All of these incidents occurred with someone in my passenger seat, the lesson here being, don't drive with me if you'd prefer to have no bumps in the road along the way. Unfunny pun fully intended.