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You turn me around like a record baby. 138th Journal
4 years ago
This is my head.
Well well well, It happened again, had another close call a couple of days ago. But this time someone spun out behind me. Back in August (See my 131st journal), a person drove in front of me at a very high rate of speed and skidded, hitting the barrier divider but missed me entirely.
I was driving home and there was a slowdown up ahead. I applied the brake like normal and heard a loud tire screeching noise behind me . I looked at my rear-view mirror to see a car doing a 180° spin with the tires smoking like mad.. The person behind must have not been paying attention and slammed his brakes hard enough as to lock them up. Which was weird as that car was not all that close to me. Anyhoot, Another oddity I think is that the car was new enough to have anti-lock brakes but somehow still had them all fully locked up.
Unlike that first spin out, this one didn't hit anyone nor anybody. But it did backed up traffic as the driver backup up to turn back to the right direction. I didn't see if anyone came crashing into the mess as I was already in the process to exit to a different highway that ran parallel for that sort section.
Still don't know why the spin out as the car wasn't tailgating all that much. Must have been on the phone as that is all too common among these parts. I have seen many cars swerving all over the place like a drunken idiot, often crossing the median while the driver was texting on the phone. I bet the driver was scared shitless and stopped text-n-driving... for the rest of the day. Probably start right up again. They never learn. This is way too common. Had quite a few people almost drifting into me on the highway. Damn humans, just drive and text later for crying out loud.
Oh well, changing the subject. Last weekend before ACFI 2021. Hopefully there be plenty of parking at the hotel. Parking downtown is a pain especially near the Riverwalk. It is a new location for the con this year so I have no idea how it compares to the previous ones. The one in 2019 had a nice (and large) parking garage next to it so that is very convenient. I didn't see much of a parking area judging by Google map arial photos. I'll have to look at it some more.
I was driving home and there was a slowdown up ahead. I applied the brake like normal and heard a loud tire screeching noise behind me . I looked at my rear-view mirror to see a car doing a 180° spin with the tires smoking like mad.. The person behind must have not been paying attention and slammed his brakes hard enough as to lock them up. Which was weird as that car was not all that close to me. Anyhoot, Another oddity I think is that the car was new enough to have anti-lock brakes but somehow still had them all fully locked up.
Unlike that first spin out, this one didn't hit anyone nor anybody. But it did backed up traffic as the driver backup up to turn back to the right direction. I didn't see if anyone came crashing into the mess as I was already in the process to exit to a different highway that ran parallel for that sort section.
Still don't know why the spin out as the car wasn't tailgating all that much. Must have been on the phone as that is all too common among these parts. I have seen many cars swerving all over the place like a drunken idiot, often crossing the median while the driver was texting on the phone. I bet the driver was scared shitless and stopped text-n-driving... for the rest of the day. Probably start right up again. They never learn. This is way too common. Had quite a few people almost drifting into me on the highway. Damn humans, just drive and text later for crying out loud.
Oh well, changing the subject. Last weekend before ACFI 2021. Hopefully there be plenty of parking at the hotel. Parking downtown is a pain especially near the Riverwalk. It is a new location for the con this year so I have no idea how it compares to the previous ones. The one in 2019 had a nice (and large) parking garage next to it so that is very convenient. I didn't see much of a parking area judging by Google map arial photos. I'll have to look at it some more.
