Why Me? August 14, 2008

I work in a deli.
I have a uniform. It declares that I must wear black or tan pants with a white collared shirt. I like this.. that means I only needed to buy shirts when I got my job. And because they were white I need to wear a black tanktop under them. Because white bras didn’t make sense to own before. I never wore white and they’d show through my really thin old black (grey) shirts. So I just assumed wear a black tanktop underneath.

It is warm out.
I walk to work. It’s not a bad walk. it’s shaded for a good portion of it. it’s flat land mostly. But it IS summer. therefore wearing two shirts is a liiittle warm. So I tend to walk in my tanktop and my work pants.

This is how it looks.

I think it’s decent. I’m covered. It’s modest… it’s something I wear for wooork. I’m not prancing about in a little black cocktail dress and heels or applebottom jeans.

I walk on a main road.
To get there I have to go past the rotary in my town. It’s a pretty busy road. There are alot of cars. there’s a highway offramp there and all. I walk on the sidewalk and lots of cars pass me.. sometimes people I know are driving by and they offer me a ride. That’s always nice.

Some fools in their cars think it is FUNNY.
To drive past me and scream out their windows. or to honk at me and make lewd hand gestures.
It doesn’t happen everyday.. its happening less now that people are headed back to schools. so I’m going to assume it was mostly college kids or something. But why? WHYYY? do you need to drive past someone and screeeam out your window. I can’t understand what you’re saying, you’re driving too fast.

And you scare the bejeebus out of me when you honk at me. I can hear that through my headphones. and its alarming to suddenly hear HONKHONK!! in the middle of something that should be my soothing music. It’s even scarey when I hear it through my loud growly music.

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This leaves me wondering. Why me? What did I do to you? I’m not dressed to be catcalled. I’m not shaking my butt down the road. I’m just attempting to not dehydrate.. again XD

Kiinu vs. RMV March 2, 2008

So I’ve tried to get my liscense twice now. And twice now, I’ve failed.

The first time, I was taught to parallel park incorrectly. My drivers ed class used a very small car for road lessons and they only went over it once and they way they used worked quite nicely for that little car. Not so good with a truck. Oops.

The second time I parallel parked just fine, I drove just fine, and at the very last second I was pulling into the parking space at the end and my foot slipped. off. the. break…. The car lurched forward a foot-ish.. barely at all, the cop got twitchy, he MISSED the parking break and I, Me. stopped the car with fast enough reflexes that we only went a FOOT forward. and I didn’t hit anything. But he called it a near-collision (there was a car infront of me you see) and failed me.

Well, this is really an inconveniance to us, we have no cars with middle parking breaks (well.. we have one.. but i’m only allowed to use it early in the morning when I’d have to skip the only classes I NEED to graduate) So my mum has to borrow a friends car, which isn’t so bad cept we don’t all FIT in her friends car, and borrow really means trade so her friend still HAS a car.

BUT! this past Friday. Scabbers offered up his car for me to use. So mom sent a note into school, I got dismissed after my important classes, Scabbers relinquised his keys to me and we drove to worcester to get his side mirror replaced so they wouldn’t deny me on account of his car, then drove to the RMV in Southbridge to let me drive up and about on all the roads around the RMV

I got a different cop this time, I parked, I nearly got run over by some ninny comming up behind me too fast while I was changing lanes and the cop yelled and reached for my wheel, but I turned the car away before he touched it.

Strangely, this time. the cop didn’t think my demonstration of my quick reflexes was a bad thing. He said I was a good driver and that he was comfortable enough to talk to my sponser while I was taking my test and that he apologised for creating a distraction and passed me! w00t!

I am now liscenced to… cause mayhem and run-amok… or something like that.

My mum rewarded me by letting me have Scabbers and one of my other crazy friends over for dinner. And I’m now eternally grateful for Scabbers and his small car… it made everything really easy… being all small and easy to turn and stuff.. XD

Specially since he usually doesn’t let anyone drive his car. Silly boys and their cars.

Adventures in RI September 7, 2007

Sohhh… Ami and I drove down at 11pm Wednesday night to her aunts house in Warwick, RI near the New England Tech school. We had no radio so we’d be those two teenagers driving down 295 singing POTO, Les Miserables, Queen, and a few Christmas carols we learned in Chorus last year. Go us ^.^

Now… we got to the stat of RI with no problem… but ONCE we got there… we were nothing but trouble. First we missed our exit. and drove STRAIGHT into the airport parkinglot by accident. Got lost getting out of there. Found ourselves infront of a Khols and Toys R Us parking lot. At 12 30am. So we call her Cousin and she starts giving us step by step instructions on exactly how to get to the main road. Ami insists she knows the way from there. So we drive along turn down some road. Drive up and down it looking for the house. It’s not there. So we call the house back, her aunt must hate us at this point, turns out we’re one street over. So we get on the Right street. get to the Right house. go inside and sit at the kitchen table laughing and eating nachos with her cousins until 3am or so.

We get up around noon the thursday. Get dressed. Ami makes some strange egg toasty breakfasty kinda thing. It’s yummeh. We get showered get dressed and head out. We arriiiive at the School at like. 2pm. Hang around the Administrative Office til they’re ready to talk to us and bring us around. The Admin guy is cool and turns out almost everything they could give us we can get online so we don’t need to carry anything about with us.

The campus is cool. kinda big. theres a waterfountain in the front Lobby XD. We sat in on a lecture about something. Seemed very much just like… normal school. Boring… eh. they kinda left us at the lecture and that was pretty much the end of the toury thing. So we ended up just waiting for it to be done and making faces at some of the people there who were paying about as much attention as we were.

I know I made that seem really short.. but there really was much to tell… i mean. we saw a whole bunch of classrooms and stuff and things but other than the waterfountain it was… a building.

As we head out to leave the campus. The muffler on Amis car falls. Off. We just sat there ans stared at eachother. It made it all the way down to RI… and dies in the school parkinglot.

We’re lucky fools though. We’re about to call her aunt and AAA. Buuuut. The guys we were making fun of in the lecture Were leaving too. and stuck behind us. and lived close by. sooo.. we just got the car from the school to their house. It was dinnertime… we were hungry. So Ami stayed with her car and I ended up walking to Wendys with Tony, who’s… really tall.. like really. We got a whole ton of food and came back with it. Turns out Ami needs a new clamp and Autozones gonna take a few hours to get it.

Eat dinner, play videogames, sketch stuff, and get the clamp and a hanger to hold it on with. But by now it’s getting dark and They’re not sure if they can do it in the dark. So Dan’s working on the car and Ami, Tony, and I are sitting around the car with flashlights trying to make him see.

We completly give up at 11 because I Need to get home. So, everyone Piles into Tonys car, Ami gives him gas money, and they drive me home by Midnight ish. After they dropped me off they turned around and headed right back to their house to fix Amis car today. And i’ll be calling her afterschool to find out if she’s alright… XD

Adventures… adventues galore when I go places

Eye doctors August 27, 2007

So we went to the eye doctor… had to call my friend Nicki for a ride… cause bobberts car is deeaaadddd…

Buut…

I got my eyes dialated… and only one of my eyeballs reacted to it… XD so I look lopsided kinda… Bobbert called me demented