Today, while driving through the neighborhood that I park in near UNR (I'm not paying $200/year for a crappy parking pass), this car starting pulling out when I was RIGHT NEXT to it. Using my cat-like reflexes, I quickly swerved to avoid the car. Had I not swerved right in time, this car would definitely (as in, 100%-for-certain) hit my car. After swerving, I immediately looked over to see who the dumb driver of the offending car was, planning on employing my "What the heck?" glare on the offender.
Well, I looked over and it was this cute girl who had an embarrassed "I'm sorry" look on her face. Upon seeing this, my "What the heck?" glare immediately dissolved into a friendly, "Haha, please watch out!" smile. This instant forgiveness is, admittedly, completely unfair. Had it been an older women, or a man of any age, my "What the heck?" glare would almost certainly have been fully employed, and followed by thoughts of utter disgust about the offending driver.
Instead, because of nothing other than an apologetic look and a pretty face, the offender experienced my immediate forgiveness, not only in my external response to them but also within my internal regard for them. The unfairness of this reality is not lost on me, but it is what it is.
7 comments:
I think you were actually meant to get into that accident, and that she was your soul mate. Now, because you are cursed with catlike reflexes, you will never know... That's what's REALLY "unfair" in this situation.
If she is generally uncautious, you could have followed her and tried to be a victim of some other accident, but now some other lucky guy will be that accident victim.
It will be soap operatic in the sense that she'll put him into a coma, fall madly in love while he's in a coma, and then the day he wakes up they'll wed and live happily ever after.
OR... you saved yourself from years of misery and a messy divorce.
Who's to say?
I believe it is the latter. My catlike reflexes may have evolved simply so that, at this point in time, I would avoid this cute and careless girl's car, because if I did not then I would end up in a messy and ultimately unpleasant relationship.
I know, I know... evolution has no foresight. But if I happen to believe that God put the evolutionary process into action, then I can believe that evolution (or, at least, the One who put the process into action) has foresight.
IMO, it would've been one of two things:
1) "OMG I'm so sorry! My daddy will pay for all of this...here, let me make it up to you and take you out to dinner!" *Happily ever after*
or
2) "WTF ARE YOU DOING HITTING ME WHILE I PULL OUT?! RAAAAAPE!!!"
Pretty girls have been enjoying forgiveness this way since the time of Eve. You can't help your response, your brain made you do it. (I threw in a little of the newest thinking in psychology there, to go along with your latest post.)
You should have jumped out of the car and tried to get into a playful 'argument' with the girl, which would culminate in you telling her that, for her almost hitting your car, she owes you a date, and then she would be like, 'Gaw, like who does this guy think he IS?' and then she'd be curious and turned on at the same time, and so on and so forth.
I agree with Brian, she definitely would've said "Gaw." I don't know about the rest of it though, I got sidetracked and lost interest quickly. jaykay
You're right Brian. And you've seen way too many First Look movies.
Post a Comment