{"id":609,"date":"2009-02-18T09:51:31","date_gmt":"2009-02-18T13:51:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bluemonkeybutt.com\/home\/?p=609"},"modified":"2013-01-28T15:14:51","modified_gmt":"2013-01-28T19:14:51","slug":"hit-by-the-special-bus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bluemonkeybutt.com\/home\/2009\/02\/18\/hit-by-the-special-bus\/","title":{"rendered":"Hit By The &quot;Special&quot; Bus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I wanted to share a little story about me, my car, and a <em>&#8220;special&#8221;<\/em> bus.\u00a0 Yesterday on my way to work it was a pretty uneventful ride.\u00a0 It was until I was almost to work.\u00a0 I was sitting at a stop light waiting to turn left.\u00a0 Now this road <em>usually<\/em> has two lanes, one to turn left and one to turn right.\u00a0 Now by <em>usually, <\/em>I mean it does until you have big-ass snowbanks on either side of the road.\u00a0 If you have a skinny, tiny car, like a mini-cooper or a Prius you should be fine, anything bigger and you are not going to fit.\u00a0 With that being said, there I sat waiting for the light to turn, when I glance in my rear-view mirror and see a <em>&#8220;special&#8221;<\/em> bus.\u00a0 You know what I mean, the short bus.\u00a0 So I see the bus try to pass the line of cars on the right hand side, and I&#8221;m thinking, <strong>&#8220;yea right, never gonna make it.&#8221;<\/strong>\u00a0 But yet she tries, and just as she is passing me, <strong>&#8220;BAAAAMMMMM!&#8221;<\/strong> and my whole car jerks to the right!\u00a0 <strong>&#8220;Son of a bitch, she hit my car!!&#8221;<\/strong>\u00a0 So I lay on the horn and she just keeps on driving like nothing happened.\u00a0 At this point I am livid!\u00a0 I cannot believe that she can smash into my car and keep driving!\u00a0 So when the light turns green I go after her!\u00a0 I am so angry, getting angrier by the second.\u00a0 Luckily I know where the school is and I go around the block and pull up right behind her!\u00a0 I park right behind her, jump out of my car, go stomping over to her window in my 3 inch heels, and bang on her window with my fist!\u00a0 I can feel my heart pounding, I am so angry at how stupid this woman is!\u00a0 She rolls the window down, and I go all <strong><em>&#8220;crazy white girl&#8221;<\/em><\/strong> on her!\u00a0 <strong>&#8220;Do you know that you just slammed into my car back there at the light???&#8221;<\/strong>\u00a0 <em>&#8220;um, no, I&#8217;m sorry I didn&#8217;t notice<\/em>&#8220;,\u00a0 <strong>&#8220;WHAT!\u00a0 How could you NOT notice hitting my car?? 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