it's all about perspective

monday swooped down upon us like a vulture to roadkill. i just don't do monday mornings well at all. in other news, i got an offer to teach full-time next fall (think august - december 2006), but i thought about it and decided i am going to turn it down. things in my life are as good as i have ever hoped for, and i don't want to mess it up. my schedule is flexible. i am basically my own boss. i don't need permission to take a day off. i get to spend extra time with my family. why would i throw that away for a bump up in pay and some free insurance?

this morning on my way to the college, i was in a long line at a traffic light. as i inched forward and stopped, the car behind me hit me. it wasn't a forceful hit - we were doing like 5 mph after all. i looked in my rearview mirror and saw that it was a teenage driver. what comes into my mind? empathy? nawwww...it was evil. i had fun with this unfortunate young man. first of all, i got out of the car holding my neck. i asked him if he'd ever had whiplash. he said no, but his eyes were as big as saucers and he was shaking. we looked at our cars and i found an itty bitty scratch on my bumper. i was going to play that up, too, but i think the kid would have fainted. so i smiled at him and said i was just kidding around and the scratch could be buffed out and i didn't see any reason to "exchange information" unless he wanted to. which for some strange reason he didn't. go figure. so, i shook his hand and went on my merry way. he ended up behind me again, so i picked up my cell phone and had a nice chat with a friend, though i was making angry faces and looking in my rearview mirror a lot.

hey - you gotta get your kicks when you can. i'll bet you that kid will pay more attention in stop-and-go traffic in the future now, won't he? i look at it as doing a public service. muwahahahaha.