I begin today's blog with a scene from the action/comedy Zoolander about male models:
Matilda: I think Katinka wants to kill you
Derek: Good! I deserve to die if I cant even beat ha-suck-ass in a walk off
Matilda: Come on Derek the guy had to miraculousy pull underwear out off his butt just to beat you.
Derek: But all he had to do was turn left.
Matilda: What?
Derek: I'm not an Ambi-turner. I can't turn left.
Dear drivers,
I understand that you just want to turn right. And, because we live in America, in order to do that, you need to make sure that no one is coming from the left that might ram you if you turn out in front of them. Although you may not care what the left-bound traffic is doing, this does NOT mean that you do not need to look right. What if something were in the road? What if that thing happened to be a runner? What if that runner were ME?!?!!?
Thursday's run I almost got hit - twice. The first time was fine. They didn't see us and turned right in front of us. I think it scared the bejeesus out of them when they started turning and saw us 12 inches from the passenger side window.
The second time was not so fine. The girl came to a complete stop at the limit line - thumbs up for her for obeying the law. She then rolled forward. Being that she stopped at the limit line, I assumed that she saw us. Wrong. We proceeded into the intersection (in which we had a walk signal). She started into her turn. I leaped out of the way of her front bumper and, as I moved into her leftwardly gazing line of sight, I am pretty sure she peed her pants. She slammed on her brakes (as did everyone else in the intersection because I am pretty sure they all thought we were done for) and looked at me with a gaping mouth.
While we learned a lesson today - make sure to make eye contact with right turners - I think it is my duty to spread the word. When you are turning right, please take at least one glance to the right and make sure you aren't turning into a poor runner. Or worse - a car driving in the wrong lane. Let's all be ambi-lookers.
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I think you may need to take on Brooks Shoes slogan....RUN HAPPY! If you are putting that frustrating energy into the world...guess what you are attracting. I don't want you to get hit...so think happy thoughts....or go find a trail. Think back to a time when you almost hit a runner when you were't connected to the runner mentality...and just keep using extra precaution as you gain confidence and take on new attitudes of a runner. Vehicles are powerful machines and they are run by a bunch of distracted human beings. Thanks for the reminder. Now I have to go look up the definition of a ambi-looker:) Run Happy:)
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