Hit By A Car

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I wanted to log on tonight and talk about the olympics some more but I couldn't.....I'll explain why right now but after that I'm *finally* getting some sleep.....I feel like a boring blogger telling people about my day but I think this story is more than rugged enough and I'm stoned to fuck right now anyways.

Approx. 9:00pm I rode my bike to 7-11 to pick up some Gatorade, choco. milk and powdered donuts (Sunday ritual), downed the Gatorade in the store, looked at myself in the pinball machine glass as I played and admired the way Fruit Punch always stains my lips to a gorgeous glowing cherry color....I'd make a sexy chick....I hopped on my bike and headed home. At the 7-11 exit driveway, I check both ways and start to cross. Across the street, there's this guy that just dropped his chick off at her APT. As I start to pedal, this maniac pulls a *screeching* fast Uturn without looking, I mean it took less than a second....hits me from the left.....while I'm on his hood, the motor keeps revving for like 2 seconds....that's how slow this fucker's reaction time is....he slams the brakes...I fly the fuck off and land hard on my left ankle, roll it badly, scrape fuck out of my right elbow.....bike, milk, and donuts are total losses. I crawl around moaning, my right leg throbbing, and this guy....this fucking guy....he gets out and doesn't even say sorry or look worried...he just stands there without helping me, looking very annoyed and covering his ass...naturally I start cursing him out when I hobble to my feet....he's a very skinny black guy, obviously recently immigrated islander......he's just babbling nonsense to me really fast and I have to stop myself from pulling out the ESL/refugee disses....well I let one or two slip.....oh BTW the last recent black immigrant I met was a cabbie I smoked out last month and offered drinks to before I realized he drives for a living so don't even start, bitch......so this guy starts denying he even U-turned....the fucker....I tell him DONT WORRY YOU FUCK I'M NOT GOING TO SUE YOU, MY LEG'S NOT BROKEN, JUST SAY SORRY AND STOP BEING SUCH A DICK.....he becomes more incoherent, denying everything, I become angrier, and I'm this close to grabbing my keys in that special way that cuts their eyes out when you punch them.... But check this out, here comes this couple that saw the whole thing, shutting down this guy's whole story.....then, THEN, a cop pulls up, tells us he just got word from the 7-11 clerk who also saw the dick bust the blind U.....so that's him fucked.....the adrenaline wears off and I realize I can't stand on my leg anymore, I'm bleeding through my sock actually....the fucker throws his hands up like "OH HE TOOK A DIVE!"....the witness couple just glares at him.....The cop is so on my side despite the fucker's attempts to be calm and level-headed-seeming-he can't speak english....cop lets me sit in his car while the refugee dick sits stews and bugs the fuck out in his car, I'm so charming the cop and I start laughing it up about the olympics, weather, etc....he takes my statement, he picks up the fuckers statement and comes back, I scope it and make fun of the guy's horrible, lie-filled writing--"Him and his bike was not injured"....seriously--and I tell the cop, "Good luck trying to read that"....we chuckle together at this illiterate douchebag.... As the cop hands the fucker his violation ticket, I actually will myself out of the cop car to grab my nuts while only the fucker can see...then I do the "taunt wave" to his girl still standing in the doorway (you grin, put your hand up like taking the oath but wave using only your fingers, up and down...it's maddening). The cop and witnesses say I should go to the hospital--they're babying me--but I say nah and the cop takes me home.....the guy's an asshole but he doesn't deserve to go broke cuz of me and my leg, I'm not THAT mean....but check it, my leg still kills me and I have been advised to go to the hospital tomorrow just in case....if it's indeed busted, should I shake this guy down? I mean he looks pretty poor and the violation ticket alone seemed to ruin his life, but maybe he deserves it......anyways, g'night, more details tomorrow.

Ramosi, Monday, 18 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Also, my super-thin Panasonic discman miraculously survived...it's not even a sports model and it survives everything....this, the 40+ times I've dropped it....my O.K. "Extinction Agenda" CD made it out alive too....amazing. OK goodnighjt.

Ramosi, Monday, 18 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

DUDE. Go to the hospital!

Dan Perry, Monday, 18 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Rule Of Thumb. If a person suggests you should go to the hospital - go. Dying of concussion in your bed is not the manly way to go.

Pete, Monday, 18 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

When I was knocked off my bike the guy came and started shouting at me and had to be dragged off by his wife.

Graham, Monday, 18 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Cars totally suck and should be forced to travel along tunnels underground. Surprisingly, cars are only the world's number two killer. Dirty water kills more people.

Momus, Monday, 18 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

what, despite already being required to travel in underground tunnels

raposi that sucks, go to hospital already

The last guy to knock my sistah off her bike — third I think? — was actually really nice, and concerned and helpful and stuff.

mark s, Monday, 18 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

go to the hospital. If you need medical help you need it. It's not your fault the guy crashed into you, though I would like if you didn't keep harping on his inability to speak English properly.

DV, Monday, 18 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

hospital hospital hospital. go go go.

my brother got hit by a truck a few weeks ago. his bike got mauled, but he just busted up his leg a bit. he said it was no biggie and went home to dress his wound with bacardi 151 and toilet paper. (i think living in new orleans has gotten to his brain.)

when he got to the hospital -days- later, the nurses wouldn't believe him when he told them it wasn't a gunshot wound.

so...go to the hospital. just don't wait too long, or they will think you are a secret member of some nefarious street gang.

nancy b., Monday, 18 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Word up yall, I think I will do just that.....I woke up and it felt alright, but when I moved it around it...wouldn't move....pulled up the covers, the thing is a big purple ball, my ankle bones aren't visible anymore. I iced it, called in sick, sat around watching TV till now, read these messages.....the thing is still gigantic and now numb instead of painful. My health plan will probably cover this so no biggie. I've already slept off the anger so I'll leave the guy alone....insurance and karma will deal with him....plus he had a pretty rugged nutter face, he has my address and I don't need that in my life.....there's only one african restaurant near my place and I go there a lot....if I run into him I don't wan't it to be on gangster-shit terms. And yo DV, I know it's a cheap thing to do, but I was blinded by pain and incredulity at this dick's smug indifference and denial of the whole situation....so I had to focus on the most obvious thing....he was ugly and stuttering too....and I stopped 'harping' as soon as I got home....just trying to capture the fury of the moment, dig? Okay, time to get this looked at. Piss out yall, thanks.

Ramosi, Monday, 18 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

get thee to a hospitaal..then to a lawyer...

Geoff, Monday, 18 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Sup Geoff....no lawyer, I have this weird long-standing position that people that sue = total bitches -- I used to dream of becoming famous then voiding the dream when I realized being famous meant I could never knock someone out because they'd sue me....and I don't even fight....I just hate pussies on principle. Anyways, I'm not gonna sue, but whatever physio/med. costs arise, that fucker's paying for. This is what happened at the hospital: my leg is not broken, but my ankle is jacked up pretty bad...it's sprained severely, bruised to the bone somehow on *both* sides, on the right there may be fragments of something but not bad enough to warrant a cast--the doc looked at the wounds and he said that when I landed, the ankle probably folded over on itself completely and I was too amped/furious/shocked to even notice....but I'm feeling it now, boy.....it's all tensor bandaged up and in one of those tiny beige rubber cafeteria-tray looking things....I can't walk on it with a shoe for about a week. Oh, get this, bruised ribs, too. I had no idea...thought I was just sore. So I'll get to miss more work....but my weekend's fucked.

DV, I take it back. In fact it wasn't the cheap thing to do, it was the perfect thing to do. Looking back now, I wish I dissed his english even more, and also focused on his haircut, cheap rims, and his mama. Anything to hurt his feelings would have been great. I can't believe you almost made me feel guilty and I'll never let it happen again.

Ramosi, Tuesday, 19 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Hey Ramosi, you sound like Herbert W. Kornfeld. No one raps the English like da H-Dog.

DV, Tuesday, 19 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh shit, call 911, this guy just sonned me on the 'wigger' tip circa 1996.....this guy knows comedy - I hear Margaret Cho wants hookups.....figures you find the most played out, unfunniest Onion piece ever to be the cat's pajamas....hey look it's the meek office- working whiteboy talking totally off-the-mark 'rap people' talk gag again....very with-it....oh did you hear someone flew planes into the world trade centers?!?!?.......indiequirer.com sounds right up your alley, pancho

Ramosi, Tuesday, 19 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Rejoice! Ramosi's already feeling better through the power of hate.

And yes, though I came in on this late, hospital etc. good, and I'm most glad y'went. Cautionary tale -- Stiv Bators gets hit by a car in Paris, brushes it off and feels fine, goes home...then dies. All you need to remember if you think you're feeling okay after something big hits ya.

Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 19 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

hey ramosi - glad to hear things are dealable - take care of yrself ok, get some rest if you can afford it - it's important...

Geoff, Tuesday, 19 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I just said you sounded like Herbert W. Kornfeld. I didn't say HWK was funny.

DV, Wednesday, 20 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

although who am I kidding! the H-Dog is funny. word.

anyway, back to you, I'm glad you're recovering from your accident.

DV, Wednesday, 20 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Dirty Vee, sorry for getting all snarky bro, I was supremely vexed the past couple and I overreacted....it's all gravy...you're my man. Thanks to everyone for giving a damn....it's nobilized my gimpness tenfold!

Ramosi, Wednesday, 20 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

dud, you oughta get it amputated - there is lots of money in amputee pron.

Geoff, Thursday, 21 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)


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