27 May 2005

H2 Award #2: This is not going to tickle

H2 Award #2 goes to an unnamed woman in a small red car with TX vanity tags "TIKL ME". Trust me lady, this would not have tickled.

Driving along Briar Forest yesterday morning, doing about 40, and aforementioned small red car pulls out RIGHT in front of me. I whaled on my brakes so hard the ABS kicked in, and I came so close to driving this 5000 lb truck right up her ass that I think I may have actually touched her. The car behind me swerved around and went up the curb. Fortunately no Hibiscus were harmed in the incident. Trust me, those of use tooling around in SUVs and trucks don't WANT to hit you, but there's nothing we can do about the laws of physics: Big objects take longer to decelerate than small ones, especially when they are denser.