From: Tiffany H









The first time I cheated death when it was coming right at me, whether on purpose or by accident (in which I'm sure the whole thing was not an accident). Anyway to tell the story I have to tell you what I was doing yesterday. Me my mom and my aunt had gotten up early to go to Scranton to a cook out at my cousin's house, I've been there before and they have a nice backyard. We miss the first bus because it was pack, couldn't believe it was packed already but luckily we got on the second bus only to have the bus drivers screw things over and we had to wait for the other bus for the other passengers who wanted to go to Scranton. But we got to where we were headed around two-ish. So we stay till about seven thirty because the second to last bus was leaving at seven fifty five, in which our cousin almost made us late for the bus, when we were pulling in it was about to pull out but I jump out of the truck and ran to it, so thanks to me we got on the bus. It was express and so we would have gotten home faster if it wasn't for the traffic going into the Lincoln tunnel and the firework display that screw up the streets. So we ended up taking the train home in which my mom wanted to make sure my aunt got home so we had to walk her all the way down to her bad ass neighbor which I hate being in, because a lot of ghetto black fuckers are there and I hate being in an area like that, besides the fact when we got her home and try to find a cab it was already twelve going on twelve thirty so I'm like dead tired now just want to go home. So we end up walking to a major street and finding a cab, though what's stupid now thinking about it, instead of telling the driver to drop us off right in front of our building she tells the driver to drop us off on the corner of the street, one of the major and dangerous streets to drop us off there, in which we'd have to walk up one hill block to get to our apartment, and so I was angry but as long as we got home. So we got out the cab at the major street and was waiting for the light, I hate crossing this street because cars turning from the right do not give respect for people walking and will continue to drive towards you like you're not there. So before the light ever changed I look over to my right and see just one car, with his right light blinking meaning it was going to turn right, I know to keep my eye out on cars from the right cause you never know and this was one of those never know cases. So my mom was ahead of me and i was walking a few feet behind, I turn to my right to look at the car to see it speeding, SPEEDING right towards me, like the driver diving right into me, like he knew I was there (Though my mom says the driver was drunk and being it was twelve at night and dark he didn't see me) so since I saw this car driving almost right into me I back up quickly, my mom had turned and saw the whole thing cursing the driver off, I also curse out loud. If I had tried to run ahead towards my mom I wouldn't have made it, not with the speed he was going at and when he turned he turned sharply at me so there was no way I was making it across which is why I back off. So yeah that scared me to death but my mom thank god I have good reflexes in which I thank god I do too, and I thank god I watch everything in my surroundings, I always have and always will. Though one point I want to make to end this journal entry, let's say if the driver was not drunk and was just speeding when he shouldn't have, cars have head lights, head lights are there to spot things in front of the driver, he had his head lights on and how could he not see me? but then again he might have been drunk so who to know, oh and one more sweet fact to make this all seem like the drivers fucker fault, he wasn't the only one in the front seats ._.