breaking news: Dangerous Driving in atlanta, ga

My thoughts yesterday while driving:

the traffic here in atlanta is horrendous. it takes half an hour minimum to go anywhere. even like..down the street to the gym. where i live, there can be traffic even at 6 pm on a Sunday. It’s due to the fact that everything is pretty spread out here, and public transportation isn’t really used. then, if the weather is even mildly less than perfect. rain equates to “drive 20 mph slower, and turn on your caution lights”. if it snows, we have 28 car pile ups…as some of my friends who are still across the Mason-Dixie line have been kind enough to show me links of. Well who’s laughing now? It’s February and I still have yet to lift a shovel! it’s 60 and sunny out today.

yesterday, traffic was worse than usual. EVERYWHERE. not just on the highway. not just around downtown. i’m just driving down some little back road and it’s backed up. THEN i hear on the radio “a ZEBRA has escaped in downtown Atlanta”. like what the??

this zebra..escaped from the circus…lol. imagine if you are driving along with your kids and your kid is like “hey mommy look! a zebra!” an you’re like “sure honey…” and then WHAM a zebra runs into your car. hahahaha!!!!!

zebras are awesome. poor zebra, he just wanted to hang out where the playas play…he’d certainly fit in…i mean look at that coat…the flyest threads in animal kingdon. lol.

Aside from zebras popping up on the highway…due to the lack of sidewalks (since as mentioned before, most of the population here drives), PEOPLE POP OUT OF NOWHERE IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT and SCARE THE SHIT OUT OF ME!For example, last night I’m just driving down this like 6 lane road…and WHOA hello! there’s a man, of course he’s dressed in like BLACK, standing in the middle of the road, trying to cross the street. It’s become that when you see someone actually WALKING somewhere, you’re like “what the hell is this person doing? crazy…” lol. probably explains why the gym is always overpacked… forcing us to behave like hamsters.

This also leads to bums who stand at traffic lights and walk up to your car. Personally i think this is more awkward than your average bum in normal cities that sits on the street corner. I mean at least if the bum is stationary, you can walk away quickly like you are busy. At the traffic light…you are frantically trying to look anywhere but at the bum. NEVER MAKE EYE CONTACT. that is an invitation to the bum. There is this particularly nasty bum in midtown, that walks up and down the line of cars, and then when the light turns green, and you drive off, he FLICKS OFF EVERY CAR. pf..yeah that makes me wanna give you money the next time i drive by, idiot. i personally prefer either the nice bums with “GOD BLESS” signs, or those funny ones that say like “I NEED ALCOHOL MONEY”.

OH but what ALWAYS gets me are the middle aged/old asian guys who play the asian violin thing in the subway. Even more so if the thing is so broke it only plays like 4 notes. Man that always gets me to shell out some money…