28th
Yea… it’s been a while… bite me.
Ok, I had this thought the other day, I think it makes a lot of sense… When people ask “how was work?” or “how was your day?” they’re generally just being polite and don’t really care, they’re just putting it out there like a “have a nice day” the cashier always throws at you as you leave and forget about them. So if I had a shitty day at work, they definitely don’t want to hear about it, and really I don’t want to talk about it. Bitching about it doesn’t make me feel better, and listening to me bitch generally just brings people down, so there’s really no benefit to bitching about work. I think if more people adopt this and the “leave work at work” philosophy, we’ll all be happier as a whole.
That being said….
I’ve decided to start beating this dead hose again so I can bitch or yell about other random stuff, but not about work… for example…
On the drive home from work today, I think I got in a race with a pontiac montana… yea… a minivan… here’s the story
So I’m cruising home from work today and I came up to one of those intersections where one lane ends shortly after the intersection so you have to merge. I didn’t realize this as I pulled up to the red at the empty intersection and I stayed in the right lane. After a couple seconds, a 45-50ish year old guy pulls up in the left lane in a 2003ish pontiac montana, this was around the time I realize my lane ended. “no problem” I thought to myself “I’ll just giv’r a lil’ gas and pull into the left lane”. Light goes green and the montana’s half way throught the intersection, I give it a lil’ gas and go to pass him and he punches it! This immature SOB is trying to make me run out of road instead of courteously letting me in! (or just driving at a normal speed so I could merge) Traffic was in sight and my lane was quickly ending, so I let out of the gas and merged in behind him, where I stayed in traffic for the next 15 mins before we went our seprate ways.
Time to rant…
WHAT THE HELL… it’s not like he was in a hurry or something, (slow moving) traffic was in sight, what? are you just trying to prove to yourself that you’re still cool cause your minivan can beat a 20 year old, beat up looking truck? It’s still a fucking minivan! I don’t get it… I used to get small joy out of doing that to ricers when I was in my minivan (and 16!), but I think we can all agree that my truck does not look like a “race car” ALSO.. you’re old! grow the fuck up. This freaking jerk tried to make me run out of road for absolutely no reason, I don’t get it. At first I thought he was just accelerating a little quicker than most, but I could hear his engine revved right up…
now for the hell of it, let’s compare some specs
Him:
2003ish Pontiac Montana
3942 lbs
170-185HP & 210 ft-lbf
Me:
1989 GMC Sierra
4220 lbs
175 HP & 290 ft-lbf (claimed original specs.. mine are nowhere near)
+15 years “experience”
Which vehicle do you expect to be faster?… no matter who the driver is, they’re both automatic transmissions… anyways, I’m bored so I’m done.(happy now Danielle?.. yea I called you out)
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