Just Pass Me By

I am so bored, I have read through all my books, and played way to much video games. I have just about wrote down ever single word I have to remember for Hebrew class, on Saturday. I been bad at studying and I know the only way to catch up with class is by actually studying, but my husband doesn’t like learning language he claims he not good at it.
Otis lately has been pushing his limits being naughty and clawing on everything he aught not. He will come up to me and then run away expecting me to chase him around the house. Normally he will not go up on my counter unless he going to jump into his little perch over the freg. It was his favorite place when my husband first moved in, he used to act like he was going to jump on my hubby. I am not sure how but he has opened my office door, which I don’t ant him there because I decided I to put our fishing stuff in there and it safer for Otis not to be in the office.
Otis is probably noticing I am home a lot more so he probably acting like a kid and testing his limits. The last week almost I been up until well after 2am chatting to an online friend. Thank goodness I have a job interview tomorrow.
Today I spent a good portion of the day finishing the apartment, I just have to vacuum the apartment, and I even managed to get my taxes done today. Not happy about filing taxes and finding out I owe the Feds money just lovely. I would much rather spend that money on a few good books, so I have something to do other then play video games.
Maybe I will try, A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose . There has been a lot of talk about it. Normally when I hear a lot of opinions positive or negative I like reading the book and seeing what I think. Right now I have no opinion other then it may not be my normal choice of books, I normally like reading young adult or suspense as long as there no cussing ever other word. I am sure that this book should be safe with language and might be a little encouraging. Tomorrow I do have a interview so I have to be good tonight and get some sleep, and try to prepare for Passover dinner with some friends on Sunday, we are doing a demonstration for a few of our friends, and I am responsible for teaching something.
The only thing I haven’t done is play my guitar maybe I should do that and create a song about boredom.

Today my husband let me use his car, it a little cold out and my heater in the van broke. Getting to my assignment was no problem other then finding where to park. Something nice did happen today, I had turned down the street on the side of the building thinking the parking lot would be near.
I had to turn back around by the time I got back to my road there were two school buss. I am a cautious driver, and wait normally for everyone. I stopped at the stop sign, and then I inched the car closer to the intersection. I was waiting for the buss to go who had the right away but she never went instead she flagged me to go ahead. This doesn’t happen often in the cities usually no one wants to let you go first expecially when they have the right away.
Tonight on my way home, I found out very quickly that the frontage road did not go all the way through. Oh well at least I was able to get on a hwy right away and back to where I needed to be. Well I got to my turn on my little parking lot inlet and some lady decided she had to try to be in the same place as me. It just amazes me how people can be so rude, and not wait their turn. I was there first, at least I was able to aviod her hitting me. I felt like screaming at her Just Pass Me By and Not run me Down.
Maybe she had a little to much to drink since it is a holiday, and if that the case since it was only 530ish maybe she needs some alcohol rehab

Yesterday my husband and I decided we would stop at Lunds, on our way to church. I needed to get money out for my Hebrew class after service. We ended having to park in another company parking area because Lunds was all full, or at least the one parking space was to small to fit my mini van into. My husband and I started walking toward Lunds, and we were in the parking lot trying to cross one of the lines.

This stupid Tow Truck driver decided he would like to run my husband and me down. My husband waved at him and said Loudly Hey we’re here. The Driver started speeding up, My husband had to rush to the other side and I had to rush backwards so that I wouldn’t been hurt. What ticks me off is that there was a bunch of snow and slush down on the Parking lot along with ICE. I had sled in the parking lot coming to a stop. Thankfully my husband and I where able to get out of the way in time with out falling down on the ice, and being ran over and killed.

We went right away to the Manager at Lund’s, Sorry I am not going to just leave something like this go. That semi truck driver put my husband and my life in danger. In the State of Minnesota pedestrians have the right away. I am sure he saw us before he even turned that corner getting ready to cross that driveway road, to get to Lund’s. When my husband waved and called at him he accelerated this gave my husband and I no other option but to hurry out of the way in on slippery ground. This semi truck company is lucky neither one of us fall or were injured, because frankly had I fall or my husband fall and been harmed I would go after the company. Not that I am sue happy but these Semi Truck drivers need to learn they do not OWN the road and they have to share the road with others.

While talking to the Manager he called someone in stock and found out, when the driver lift he was frustrated and upset because he could not get easily in the stocking area because of snow and cars. Basically the conditions yesterday were not easy to deal with. I understand being frustrated but please don’t try to run someone over because your angry if your unable to control your temper then maybe you should not be driving. If your worried about time trust me rushing isn’t going to get you their any sooner, and most companies in snowy icy climate will understand if your late. Being late is okay if your keeping other on the road safe along with you. It would take you a lot longer to deal with MINDOT and the Police Department then it would to run a little bit late. I told the Manager this was Innopraite behavior on the driver, the manager said he agreed with me. I was listening to him with his stock person and he told that person the Semi Truck driver doesn’t have the right to run people down because he is frustrated.

When we got to church we were talking to one of guys shoveling the sidewalks. We shared with him what happened to us, then he shared with us what happened to him. He was on his way and was trying to merge onto a highway when a Semi Truck would not move over on a fairly clear highway and he had room to be able to move over. Now considering we can’t see through the Semi truck I don’t know if the driver could have moved over, but He could have slowed down a bit and allowed him to get on to the road safely, instead of doing that being mindful, he basically ran the guy of the road and the guy went into a spin out. Okay I have spun out once and it is not fun it actually pretty scary, Thankfully my friend was not harmed and was able to get to church.

Okay Semi Truck drivers who think you own the Road NEWS Flash, you don’t own the road. Just because your bigger then most vehicle’s on the road doesn’t mean that the same roads that apply to us do not apply to you. I know you all do not like it when your followed closely or have a car just about cut you off, Personally I try to be very careful when lane changing with a Semi truck near me because I want to give you a enough room for stopping if for some unforeseen reason it needs to be done, I try not to follow to closely behind. I just don’t feel the need to be stupid with your truck because it a mess to have to clean up when accidents happen and frankly I don’t want to die before G-d says it time.

I have a friend who a Semi Truck driver, he is a good driver! I ended up following him once I kept my distance between him and I. Grant it he was in a regular truck or something, but I still allowed plenty of space. He was stuck behind me once and said I was a smart driver because I knew how to give space. Okay regular vehicle drivers this is for you. Give Semi trucks their space they need a lot more stopping time then you and I, they way a lot more and if they are cut off it can cause them a whole lot of trouble. So lets try to be mindful of what we are doing on the Road.

I am so sick of drivers being stupid, do they just not realize that their car can be a lethal weapon. I am so sick of people being all the way to the left side of the road and deciding they have to make a right turn. I am sick of drivers in the parking lot who feel the need to make a right turn from way over in the left with no signal and cutting in front of the car behind them almost causing my husband to run into them.

1st if your driving in the parking lot of a apartment complex do not go fast, and careless. I know in my building their are normally little kids playing outside and believe me they are not looking for cars coming their way they are more interested  in playing what ever game. It is the DRIVER RESPONSIBILITY to stop for them.

2nd, If you want a parking space, First turn your signal on, if your on the far left turning right MAKE SURE no one is behind you, that will have to slam their breaks to miss hitting you.

3rd Signal your turns. This will help drivers know what you are planning and might help them slow down so they don’t have to slam on the break. Give a fair warning.

4th, The road belongs to everyone, I say every one who pays taxes but not every one who driving is probably paying taxes so to be fair to everyone. Remember your not the only one on the road, and the center of the universe is not your car. The center of the Universe has nothing to do with you or any of us.

5th don’t drive to fast for bad conditions and don’t drive to slow when you don’t know exactly where your at.

Snow is supposed to be coming this weekend, I am not looking forward to it. It seems most drivers forget how to drive in the snow from the last snow we had, you’d think in Minnesota we all remember well since we get a lot of it. We need to remember sometimes the posted speed limit is probably to fast for the road conditions. It okay to drive under that speed if weather calls for it.

Many accidents are caused by drivers who are driving to fast, or not allowing enough stopping distance. Lets remember snow equals slippery. Slippery equals stopping may take longer and we aught to give it more time then we would on a dry or wet road. Rain and snow driving are kind of similar but not because in rain you might be able to drive the posted speed limit or above and not have to worry about to much, other then stopping.

Remember the Snow Plows don’t follow then to closely and when passing them be careful and mindful of where they are at make sure when passing them you leave enough space between them and you, and you do not drive to close to them. Allow some extra time to get to work or were ever because rushing in snow is not a good idea.

If you do not know how to drive in the Snow you may want to consider public transportation. I know not fun, I have taken the bus many of times, normally to save on parking if I have to go downtown I take a bus.

People who walk outside, please wear seeable clothes white probably is not a good color neither are blacks and other dark colors like that. Don’t get me wrong but the thing that drives me batty driving at night is when someone of dark skin runs in front of me, and I see them last minute almost. It drives me buggy when anyone wears dark colors at night your harder to see, grant it for the most I see everyone but sometimes it get hard like on roads which are not well lighted.

If you do not have in your trunk a emergency winter kit you may want one. A blanket which i try to keep in the back seat is good, water, road flares, and jumper cables. Fluids I keep in my car almost all year around are oil, brake fluids, and antifreeze.

Don’t worry I promise I won’t road Rage, I will control my temper, but I am so sick of drivers in Minnesota. When I first moved here, I thought this was the greatest State to drive in. I used to love driving in this State to view the scenery, now I would rather not unless there is no traffic.
This morning on my way to work there was this idiot behind the wheel,  use your turn signal, honestly it not that hard, I’d let you in,  no problem! The center of this world isn’t my van and it isn’t your cute little car, that could be smashed because your being stupid and feeling a need to be aggressive. The signal is very easy to find normally it on the left side that thing that hanging behind the staring wheel, all you have to do is hit it up for right and down for left, it quiet simple. The turn signal on some cars is the same thing that you use to turn your high beams on. Try the turn signal you might enjoy it.

Common sense people, if your in the far left lane, don’t make a right turn, the right turn lane isn’t there it over on the right side of the road, so use it not the left side of the road. Hey you, need to merge it easy. Keep the foot on the gas, get with the flow of traffic and turn your signal on maybe someone will be nice enough to let you in. Please don’t speed up and try to get ahead of the car of head of you try to fit your self between the car in front and the car behind. If you see someone merging on to a highway, and your able maybe try moving over to the left so that person can get on the road, and lets not run each other off the road. I am getting so tired of having to read people minds and figure out that they are going to be changing lanes into my lane with out signaling barely giving me time to not hit them. I am tired of sometimes driving on the highway and being just about ran off of the road.

If your merging on the highway with a group of other cars, don’t try to pass unless you have the room, it rude to push someone of the road. Just because your car or van or truck is bigger then someone else doesn’t mean you own the road, lets try being friendly in this State like I remember when I first moved here. The same goes for you all with the Nice little cars that well I could never pay for it rude to cut of a van who takes longer to stop then you do.

Distracted driver why you looking in your mirror and moving forward? I can’t tell you how many people including my husband drive me nuts with being distracted and trust me I tell him. Take your eyes of the road for 2 seconds (sometimes longer ) it takes you to look into the mirror, you may not have enough time to respond if someone jumps in front of you. Anyways the Zit on your face will be there later, and no one really cares that much about it.

To day I was dropping someone of at home after service, I don’t mind doing this I enjoy her company and she nice to be around. I was talking to her about life, and suddenly this car in a gas station driveway started moving out to make a left turn in front of me. What do I have it wrote on my car please cause me an accident! Well I braked and so did he, they where on a cellphone. Come on people if you can not talk on the phone while driving, then don’t do it. If talking or listening to the radio is to much to handle at the same time as driving then turn it off.

Trust me you won’t miss anything, you can call the person later. Shoot the radio is available 24/7 and lets face it. You can do your makeup at work, or at home it really not that important. I have found I have to watch out for everyone and try to determine what they will do before hand. There are very few polite drivers.

I have been driving for over 13 years. Over the last few years, it seems drivers have gotten more foolish. This weekend I went out with my best friend to pick my mini van to get the breaks adjusted. We were on a minor highway here in Minnesota and this stupid truck driver decided he had to be in my friends spot, with us still there. It seemed he was going to hit the side of the car by the door; she got out of the way. Then He decided he had to try to lane change again and just about ran us off the road again, had she not hit the breaks it would have been a mess. Why can’t drivers just wait for their turn or just pass us by.