driving defensively....

i'm extremely cautious at intersections even though i do slide through some that are 'easy', meaning i am able to see in all directions if it is indeed safe to slide through (and there isn't a cop nearby). this particular intersection, being an odd intersection as there is a stop sign 1/2 block from this 4-way stop intersection, is generally one i don't slide through, which may be the reason i'm alive right now.

i'm sitting in this intersection today, this intersection that i make a left turn from nearly every Monday through Friday of each and every week, on my way home. i look left, look right, and for some reason take my time to look left again, then just as i am deciding to pull out a red SUV runs the stop sign to my left going a minimum of 30-35 mph which seemed nearly like a flash...but i saw the driver LOOKING DOWN as she flew through the intersection, totally unaware she had just run a stop sign. it took me a few seconds to realize how closely i had come to dying! had i pulled out, had she hit me, it would have been smack in the left driver's door. dead meat.



it wasn't my time. i wouldn't have known, had it been.



life is short. live like there's no tomorrow.....