September 5, 2009

• Driving home around drunk people

  Typically, I either stay out much later or come home a lot earlier. Today was a special exception because it marked the last of my first two days of school. All of the introductions are done. Monday, we will start putting our noses to the grindstone again. Oh, how I will love Behavioral Neuroscience… NOT!!

  After choir and dinner and driving home to relax and a few hours of Sims 3, I drove to Billiards (this awesome billiard/espresso bar/restaurant) in Fargo, North Dakota. I met up with my friends to play pool and drink and enjoy myself. We played for about an hour before we decided that we should all go home and sleep. We paid out (which is another long story entirely, maybe I’ll get to that later) and headed outside to make plans. We decided we should all just call it a night, so we get into our respective cars and head for our respective homes. I’m driving out of the parking lot of the establishment and am following an SUV-type vehicle that looks a lot like a pair of my friends own. They don’t pull off at the right place to get to their apartment complex, so I quickly decided that it is someone else. They are driving about 45 mph on I-94… Minimum speed is 55 mph. I pass them and head to my exit. They are far behind me at this point. The exit I take has a light. I need to take a left turn, so I get into the lane and signal and wait… Two minutes later, the same silver SUV that I had passed earlier was next to me. They were trying to get my attention. I’m glad that I ignored them. I had the radio on, so I just pretended they didn’t exist. The light turned green, so I drove in my lane and continued on the main road that leads to where I need to turn off to reach my neighborhood and my apartment building. They get in front of me for the first light. He is making some type of gesture with his hand that really doesn’t mean anything. In the least, no one was flipping me off. This light turns green. We accelerate, and the next light turns red. This time, the car in front of me decides to head into the turn lane. This puts them on my left side this time. Again, they try to get my attention. I think they realize I’m ignoring them at this point, so they get really upset. The arrow turns green for them so they have to turn. The car in the lane in front of them starts to pull forward and almost hits them as they are trying to get my attention and rile me up. I drive off as soon as the light turns green. I looked back for a second to see where they had turned. They just turned into the corner parking lot of MeritCare and went on their way. If they would have followed me, I have no idea what I would have done or where I would have gone (who I would have called). 

  Have you ever had an experience like this? What happened, and how did you react to the situation?

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