June 17, 1997

I almost got killed this morning.

OK, so I'm driving down the SE/SW freeway, and I'm in the right lane (I just got on about 100yds back. There's another exit and on-ramp up ahead, so I want to get out of this lane. I signal. There's a Mercedes in what would be my blind spot (the visibility out of my car is really, really good), so I wait a sec, thinking he'll pass me. He does not. He just hovers. I look up ahead, and OH FUCK, a van, who is 5th back in the on ramp lane has decided to pull out, from a dead stop in front of everyone else. I'm still signalling, and Mr. Mercedes has fallen back just a bit, so I start to come over, and the mother*FUCKER* speeds up. All he'd have to do to PREVENT MY DEATH is take his foot off the accellerator for a second or possibly, *possibly*, even tap that brake, but no. He wants me to die, apparently. In that split second, I must make the choice: floor it and trust that my car can overtake the Mercedes or slam on the brakes, possibly get rear-ended and almost certainly hit the van that is now IN MY LANE and not really moving.

I love my car. 200 horsepower is a GOOD thing. I think it saved my life today.

Maybe it was the cheap Mercedes. It's hard to tell from the front.

Why?

Why would anyone get a Z3 in that color? Do they even offer it or did he have to go out of his way to get it custom? If it were a Fender Stratocaster it would be Sea Foam Green. Ewww. It's like following a $35,000 convertible Mint-Meltaway (the roof is brown).**

Ben Folds Five

I've decided that if Burton Cummings had wet dreams, he'd be Ben in those dreams. I really dig BFF and all, but they DO very much remind me of Burton Cummings solo material. What kind of sick puppy would even know this, you ask? I kinda like The Guess Who (duck), and my parents were big fans of Burton.

**I went to the above site, and the only color even close is the custom "turquoise blue". If I ordered "turquoise blue" and I got THAT car, I would not be pleased, I tell ya. The color on the site looks a lot different from the car I saw.