so i almost dialed 9-1-1

tonight (in the cold drizzle, mind you), i almost died. i was nonchalantly making the left turn from markham onto university. i was in the correct lane to turn. i waited until my green arrow. i was the only car turning. so i began to turn, and this camry directly across from me attempted to turn right at the same time i was trying to turn left. THEY were turning right on red. MAGGIE was turning left on a green arrow. i obviously had the right of way. but still, i swerved, and they ended up slamming on their brakes and hopping a curb. next thing i know, i'm stopping at the next stoplight, and the camry squeals into the turning lane beside me and starts honking. i kind of cautiously look over, and i find this irate strung-out woman screaming her guts out at me. she motioned for me to roll my window down, and i automatically made sure my doors were locked. turns out, i could hear her perfectly well through the window. "you $#$%^$ @%$$, you ran me off the @^@%$&ing road! i'm going to get your license plate number!!!" she kept yelling, and i happened to look over at her boyfriend (i assume), and he had his head hung in red-faced shame at her outburst of road rage. so i smiled at him. and that made her explode even more. she jerked the car into reverse and proceeded to write down my license plate number. then they ended up following me for several miles, and i thought they were planning on following me home, so i had 9-1-1 punched in, but then they exited. surely there's really not any sort of legal action they could take, is there? it would be my word against theirs.

on another note, i found a wonderfully chic jacket from michael jackson's '84 world tour at savers tonight. the gal who checked me out had this cool earring made out of a fender guitar pick. i complimented her, and turns out she plays bass for a band called the chicklets. everytime i try to do a web search, though, i end up with 644,416,943 results about gum.

and on one more note, i finally watched napoleon dynamite tonight! it was astoundingly funny, and i already, 2 hours later, want to see it again asap.