Only one thing to be grateful for today
Feb. 18th, 2004 09:18 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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summerlady this morning. I didin't feel much like being grateful when I got up. I - again - have been up since 4:00 and I keep thinking it feels like there's a tomato in my brain (a tornado, really, but that's just the way my brains working this morning.)
However, on my way to work this morning, whilst slowing for a yellow light, a boom truck behind me - a mother flicker of a boom truck, either assumed I was going to run the yellow or he wasn't paying attention. The 30 foot black skid marks punctuate the fact that he stopped no more than a mere one inch from the back of my wee little Mazda. If being rear-ended by a monster boom truck wouldn't have hurt enough, being broadsided by cross traffic wouldn't have hepled the situation, I'm sure.
But he didn't hit me. So I'm grateful.
And I think I will spend the rest of the day under my desk.
summerlady this morning. I didin't feel much like being grateful when I got up. I - again - have been up since 4:00 and I keep thinking it feels like there's a tomato in my brain (a tornado, really, but that's just the way my brains working this morning.)However, on my way to work this morning, whilst slowing for a yellow light, a boom truck behind me - a mother flicker of a boom truck, either assumed I was going to run the yellow or he wasn't paying attention. The 30 foot black skid marks punctuate the fact that he stopped no more than a mere one inch from the back of my wee little Mazda. If being rear-ended by a monster boom truck wouldn't have hurt enough, being broadsided by cross traffic wouldn't have hepled the situation, I'm sure.
But he didn't hit me. So I'm grateful.
And I think I will spend the rest of the day under my desk.
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Date: 2004-02-18 05:26 am (UTC)Although this story does nothing to encourage me out the door.
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Date: 2004-02-18 05:34 am (UTC)I'm with Summerlady - stay home. It's much safer - warmer - friendlier... or you can come here and hang out under the desk with me.
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Date: 2004-02-18 05:37 am (UTC)I'm planning on keeping as low a profile as is possible today, both on the roads and in the office. But I have way too much to do today to blow it off--plus, Carlos is back and I may get a free lunch out of the deal on top of it.
Want my tiara?
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Date: 2004-02-18 05:39 am (UTC)Have a great day. You keep the tiara. It will just end up bumping on the underside of my desk anyway.
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Date: 2004-02-18 05:41 am (UTC)Re:
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Date: 2004-02-18 05:44 am (UTC)If you're going, be on your way, and drive CAREFULLY!
If you're not, go put on another pot of coffee and tell me what's in the news today. Did you hear about the star that they found that they figure is something like a gajillion caret diamond?
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Date: 2004-02-18 06:26 am (UTC)The problem is they know where it is now because it's hot - but when it finally dies, it will go cold, and then they can't see it anymore.
I'm glad you are safe at work!
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Date: 2004-02-18 08:47 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-02-18 09:44 am (UTC)You know, it's little things like that, that make me wish veicle mounted weapons and armour plating were street legal...