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so yea, im in IL right now at illinois state university with les. things have been going well i guess, well between us they're ok. ive been having some rough time personally... but other than that we're good. i always have problems when i visit people at college...
the road trip out here was great... untill i hit the end of ohio. i was making great time, i was wide awake the whole ride. but ya know, driving down the same major highway for about 7 hours, just going straight, not having to pay attention to signs, it makes you kinda zombie out a bit. plus, there wasent that many people on the road, so i really couldnt tell how fast i was going, and like i said, after 7 hours of driving on the same road, u just kinda... yea, whatever. so, at the end of ohio, i see my FIRST cop of the entire trip. we'll, obivosly i didnt see her soon enough, cuz i was clocked in at doing 93 in a 65mph zone. we'll, good news is, i beat my last speeding ticket of 92 in a 65 by 1 point! go me. so yea, this woman pulls me over, and i start crying hysterically, shaking, cant breathe... all of that. i've never cried getting pulled over before, it was pathetic. i was so scared because my parents didnt know where i was going. i told them that i was going up to NY for the weekend to visit cheryl at Cornell. so now, with this speeding ticket... they'll def figure out what i was doing. so now im in deep shit cuz i drove half way across the country by myself, and didnt tell them the truth about it. meh. so yea, i have this lovely ticket now. but i was talking to shamus the other day, and he remided me that points and stuff vary from state to state, so i may not get any, or i may get less, or something. GAH. and this all had to happen right after i got into a fight with my mom about car insurance and she yelled at me that "you better not get anymore points, or im gonna drop you from my insurance, i cant afford this...". i guess this was gods way of getting back at me for lying to my parents about the trip...
so the rest of the road trip, i was miserable. i set my cruise controll to 70 (while these big 18 wheelers are flying by me doing 90, yea scarey...) and just keep with my slow pace the rest of the way.
somewhere in ohio, I-80 also becomes I-90. they're the same road, and they stay that way till the end of indiana. well, i didnt know this, so i guess at the end of indiana, 80 and 90 split into 2 different highways again. i missed this split, and stayed on 90, which lead me into the heart of Gary, indiada, which has the top murder or something rate in the US. so i get freak out, and i call les's dorm to see if he's around so he can mapquest me out of there. he was at class, but i talked to his roommate kyle. he was really nice in trying to help me out, but he failed. so, i pulled over to a group of people that didnt look like they would try to kill me and asked them for directions. they were very nice also. the one woman offered me some money since i would have to be going through a bunch of tolls to get back to where i want. they told me it was pretty complicated, and the way i had to go to get around chicago traffic was even worse. so the one guy said he has to go home the same way i need to go, so he let me follow him.
well, to make a long story short, i followed this guy for like... an hour and a half. and i got so scared... he led me through the most ghetto place ive ever seen. i didnt know where i was or where he was taking me. im calling les every 5 mins saying im scared and he needs to find out where i am. and yea, it was just horrible. but finally, the guy led me to the right highway i needed to be on. yay. but of course, the work traffic on it was SO heavey. i rolled along at a steady 10mph for a good hour. and i had a long way to go on that road too.
so finally, traffic lets up, and im flying. meanwhile, if i did everything right, i should have been at les's like... 3 hours ago.
all the sudden, traffic is at a dead stop again. i sat, with my car in park, for a good hour on this road. people were driving over the divder to get out of the traffic. after a while, cops start flying down the sides of the road. there was a really bad accident i guess. traffic is back up for miles and miles infront of me and behind me. finally, cops start to lead people off the road into the nearest exit to get traffic flowing. meanwhile, the exit they lead us into is the biggest fucking hick town ever. theres like... 2 houses, a gas station, and CORN...everywhere. so everyone who got off the highway has no idea where to go to get back on it at a different stop to bypass the traffic. we're all driving around, asking everyone where to go, and its totally chaotic. meanwhile, its getting dark, theres NO streetlight, and im in a different fucking time zone with no one to help me. i keep asking a cop who was direction traffic where to go, and all he said was "follow the flow of traffic" when there was like, 10 flows of traffic cuz noone knew where they were going!
i call les, he gets on a map and tries to figure out where i am. he tells me the way to go. so while driving down this road, i blow through a stop sign that i didnt even see cuz of CORN cover it, which was the first deathly accident i almost got myself into. then the second... ugh...
from what les tells me now, small hick towns like that dont need to have the big red blinking lights and the bar things at their railroad tracks for when trains are coming. well, i just automaticlly asume that if there was ever a train coming from anywhere... i would have all these red lights blinking in my face and stuff. but not this time. im going through this 4 way intersection that has no stop sign or anything, when i notice this big fucking train like... flying at me. meanwhile, im in the middle of the tracks. it scares the fucking shit out of me, i freak out... and for some reason i decided to put myeslf in reverse and back up... insted of just going forward over the tracks. dumb. but what i also didnt realize was that the tracks were on a pretty big slant, so even when i backed up... i didnt realize how close i still was to the tracks on my right side. so the train goes flying past me, and it scares the shit out of me again cuz its so close ot me, and the wind from it sorta tilts my car. honestly, that was the scariest thing thats ever happended to me.
so here i am, sitting in the middle of a cornfield, at around 9 at night, when i was suposto get to les's dorm by 4pm, in the middle of nowhere, i dont know where i am, i dont know anyone, im all by myself, miles and miles away from home. plus a train almost killing me. all this hits me and once, and i started crying harder than i ever cried before. i was sobbing so hard that i couldnt breathe. and beacuse i couldnt breathe, and cuzi was so scared, i started to get really light headed. i called les right afterwards, and i guess i scared him a bit. he said he's never heard me like that before. then a car ends up behind me. i do a k turn, and its some kid. i ask him if he knows where hes going, he said he was pretty sure, and told me to follow him. and so i did.
he led me back onto the highway that i needed. after about 45 more mins of driving, i FINALLY got to les's school.
all in all, im never fucking doing this again. as much as i hate flying... its better than this.
ill continue with my horrible stories later, cuz i know everyone is dying to hear more =P im gonna go wake up les, and i gotta pee
im out!
the road trip out here was great... untill i hit the end of ohio. i was making great time, i was wide awake the whole ride. but ya know, driving down the same major highway for about 7 hours, just going straight, not having to pay attention to signs, it makes you kinda zombie out a bit. plus, there wasent that many people on the road, so i really couldnt tell how fast i was going, and like i said, after 7 hours of driving on the same road, u just kinda... yea, whatever. so, at the end of ohio, i see my FIRST cop of the entire trip. we'll, obivosly i didnt see her soon enough, cuz i was clocked in at doing 93 in a 65mph zone. we'll, good news is, i beat my last speeding ticket of 92 in a 65 by 1 point! go me. so yea, this woman pulls me over, and i start crying hysterically, shaking, cant breathe... all of that. i've never cried getting pulled over before, it was pathetic. i was so scared because my parents didnt know where i was going. i told them that i was going up to NY for the weekend to visit cheryl at Cornell. so now, with this speeding ticket... they'll def figure out what i was doing. so now im in deep shit cuz i drove half way across the country by myself, and didnt tell them the truth about it. meh. so yea, i have this lovely ticket now. but i was talking to shamus the other day, and he remided me that points and stuff vary from state to state, so i may not get any, or i may get less, or something. GAH. and this all had to happen right after i got into a fight with my mom about car insurance and she yelled at me that "you better not get anymore points, or im gonna drop you from my insurance, i cant afford this...". i guess this was gods way of getting back at me for lying to my parents about the trip...
so the rest of the road trip, i was miserable. i set my cruise controll to 70 (while these big 18 wheelers are flying by me doing 90, yea scarey...) and just keep with my slow pace the rest of the way.
somewhere in ohio, I-80 also becomes I-90. they're the same road, and they stay that way till the end of indiana. well, i didnt know this, so i guess at the end of indiana, 80 and 90 split into 2 different highways again. i missed this split, and stayed on 90, which lead me into the heart of Gary, indiada, which has the top murder or something rate in the US. so i get freak out, and i call les's dorm to see if he's around so he can mapquest me out of there. he was at class, but i talked to his roommate kyle. he was really nice in trying to help me out, but he failed. so, i pulled over to a group of people that didnt look like they would try to kill me and asked them for directions. they were very nice also. the one woman offered me some money since i would have to be going through a bunch of tolls to get back to where i want. they told me it was pretty complicated, and the way i had to go to get around chicago traffic was even worse. so the one guy said he has to go home the same way i need to go, so he let me follow him.
well, to make a long story short, i followed this guy for like... an hour and a half. and i got so scared... he led me through the most ghetto place ive ever seen. i didnt know where i was or where he was taking me. im calling les every 5 mins saying im scared and he needs to find out where i am. and yea, it was just horrible. but finally, the guy led me to the right highway i needed to be on. yay. but of course, the work traffic on it was SO heavey. i rolled along at a steady 10mph for a good hour. and i had a long way to go on that road too.
so finally, traffic lets up, and im flying. meanwhile, if i did everything right, i should have been at les's like... 3 hours ago.
all the sudden, traffic is at a dead stop again. i sat, with my car in park, for a good hour on this road. people were driving over the divder to get out of the traffic. after a while, cops start flying down the sides of the road. there was a really bad accident i guess. traffic is back up for miles and miles infront of me and behind me. finally, cops start to lead people off the road into the nearest exit to get traffic flowing. meanwhile, the exit they lead us into is the biggest fucking hick town ever. theres like... 2 houses, a gas station, and CORN...everywhere. so everyone who got off the highway has no idea where to go to get back on it at a different stop to bypass the traffic. we're all driving around, asking everyone where to go, and its totally chaotic. meanwhile, its getting dark, theres NO streetlight, and im in a different fucking time zone with no one to help me. i keep asking a cop who was direction traffic where to go, and all he said was "follow the flow of traffic" when there was like, 10 flows of traffic cuz noone knew where they were going!
i call les, he gets on a map and tries to figure out where i am. he tells me the way to go. so while driving down this road, i blow through a stop sign that i didnt even see cuz of CORN cover it, which was the first deathly accident i almost got myself into. then the second... ugh...
from what les tells me now, small hick towns like that dont need to have the big red blinking lights and the bar things at their railroad tracks for when trains are coming. well, i just automaticlly asume that if there was ever a train coming from anywhere... i would have all these red lights blinking in my face and stuff. but not this time. im going through this 4 way intersection that has no stop sign or anything, when i notice this big fucking train like... flying at me. meanwhile, im in the middle of the tracks. it scares the fucking shit out of me, i freak out... and for some reason i decided to put myeslf in reverse and back up... insted of just going forward over the tracks. dumb. but what i also didnt realize was that the tracks were on a pretty big slant, so even when i backed up... i didnt realize how close i still was to the tracks on my right side. so the train goes flying past me, and it scares the shit out of me again cuz its so close ot me, and the wind from it sorta tilts my car. honestly, that was the scariest thing thats ever happended to me.
so here i am, sitting in the middle of a cornfield, at around 9 at night, when i was suposto get to les's dorm by 4pm, in the middle of nowhere, i dont know where i am, i dont know anyone, im all by myself, miles and miles away from home. plus a train almost killing me. all this hits me and once, and i started crying harder than i ever cried before. i was sobbing so hard that i couldnt breathe. and beacuse i couldnt breathe, and cuzi was so scared, i started to get really light headed. i called les right afterwards, and i guess i scared him a bit. he said he's never heard me like that before. then a car ends up behind me. i do a k turn, and its some kid. i ask him if he knows where hes going, he said he was pretty sure, and told me to follow him. and so i did.
he led me back onto the highway that i needed. after about 45 more mins of driving, i FINALLY got to les's school.
all in all, im never fucking doing this again. as much as i hate flying... its better than this.
ill continue with my horrible stories later, cuz i know everyone is dying to hear more =P im gonna go wake up les, and i gotta pee
im out!