Frazzling nerves
Jan. 4th, 2002 12:06 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
chrisvenus"Wheee!!!! That was fun!" This was the exact opposite of what I was thinking at about 6:50 this evening as I came off a roundabout too fast and almost got myself killed.
On the way home from work, just getting ready to slow down to cut off of a roundabout when some clown in a bus starts to pull on way ahead of me. The slow travelling bus was gonna block me if I slowed down so I maintained speed and pulled off the roundabout faster than is comfortable.
Had it not been for the cold I'd probably have been fine. As it is I curved too wide, lost it as I tried to turn more sharply, clipped the verge with my right side as I regained grip and shot to the left, wrestled control back again to get more right and overshot the mark, almost hitting the verge again before straightening up.
I was pissed off at myself for losing it in the first place but slightly impressed with myself for holding control. It just goes to show that all those computer games are worth it after all. About quarter of an hour later I was still shaking slightly and wanting to hug my car for being lovely and keeping its grip as well as it did. Oh well, I'm still here so it isn't too bad.
On the way home from work, just getting ready to slow down to cut off of a roundabout when some clown in a bus starts to pull on way ahead of me. The slow travelling bus was gonna block me if I slowed down so I maintained speed and pulled off the roundabout faster than is comfortable.
Had it not been for the cold I'd probably have been fine. As it is I curved too wide, lost it as I tried to turn more sharply, clipped the verge with my right side as I regained grip and shot to the left, wrestled control back again to get more right and overshot the mark, almost hitting the verge again before straightening up.
I was pissed off at myself for losing it in the first place but slightly impressed with myself for holding control. It just goes to show that all those computer games are worth it after all. About quarter of an hour later I was still shaking slightly and wanting to hug my car for being lovely and keeping its grip as well as it did. Oh well, I'm still here so it isn't too bad.
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I hate to point this out...
Date: 2002-01-04 09:19 am (UTC)