PAF!

This post is dedicated to Mike, who caught a different bus this morning and missed an epic event.

Park the car, walk to the stop, stand inside grumbling about the bus that just took off (isn’t that *always* the case?), and I hear PAF!

I think nothing of it, but notice a bunch of people looking in the direction of the parking lot so I take a glance and see some poor guy’s bumper has been ripped clear off of his car!

I ask what happened and here’s the story.

Imagine yourself driving eastward to an intersection. Imagine a huge bus heading westward to the same intersection. One would imagine that you both stop, right-of-way ensues, all is well.

Not in this case…turns out that there is no stop sign while heading westward on this intersections (this in itself is not really odd, it’s a parking lot three-way stop and not a major intersection) so the bus keeps going through the intersection while the car must have misjudged and when he’s turning north into the parking lot, he clips the back of the bus with his bumper! PAF! Bumper is hanging by the tail light wires as he parks the car!

Shitty start to the morning I tell you!

In other news, I realized that I get to work at the same time if I take the later bus (as in this case) at 7:20 instead of the one at 7:10. Well I’ll be. I’ve had my suspicions before but this is verified now.