i should be more cynical
I have a little too much faith in humanity.
This morning, I got hit by a car. It wasn’t hard, it didn’t even knock me down. But for some reason which is completely beyond me, I thought the guy was going to stop when he hit me. He saw it happen, he felt his car hit a body, but only slowed, looked around, and kept going.
The only other person that really would’ve seen are some homeless people, who are jaded about the world anyway, and a blind guy. He incidentally, didn’t get hit, and he was further out in the street than I was. We had the green walking man, the car had red light. Because the people in Utah can’t drive worth a damn most of the time, I’m pretty cautious about who is driving in my general direction. The fact that the guy looked up, saw the red light, looked over at me and gave me the “YEAH, I’M STOPPING FOR YOU” eyes gave me the impression that yes, I could go.
Obviously I am mistaken.
So I go, the guy goes, and before I know it, I have a big black escalade hitting me on my left side.There’s a thump, and the guy stops. And at this point, I’m thinking ‘great - this was a wonderful start to my morning but at least the guy is stopping’.
Then the mother fucker kept going.
I didn’t get his license plate because I was actually thanking whatever diety for having him stop to begin with, so now I feel like an idiot for not being more cynical and grabbing his license plate when he first hit me. And now my side hurts and I have no one to blame it on but myself.
Also, now I’m whining so I’m going to shut the fuck up.
