two topics i need to write about, one for now and one for later: 1. hogging the middle of the road; 2. the fear that a person will walk in the bathroom and choose the stall next to you when you're in the stall going poo.

this scene should be all too familiar to my fellow dorks and nerds: in high school, you are walking down the hall and there is someone walking towards you. if you both continue on the straight path, you will bump shoulders. do you move out of the way, or stand proud and see if the other person moves?

now in this situation, there are three different types of people: those who are oblivious (talking to a friend or cramming for a test), those who moved out of the way (me), and those who didn't move out of the way (jerks). the question i always asked myself was, should i stand my ground and face potential hostility or just move out of the way and let life go by? considering that i was, and still am, highly conflict averse, i was afraid of the jerks, and just moved out of the way.

now that high school is long over, it now spills on to the road. there are those drivers who, on a two-way local road, refuse to stay in their right-hand lane forcing the other car to either swerve out of the way or just stop completely. it annoys me to no end, and lately, i've been cutting it pretty close. sometimes, i leave just enough distance to get by, hopefully sending a message to the other driver that he/she can't be hogging the entire road. but i know all this does is piss the driver off, which is also fine with me. other times, i think about not moving at all. let the cars scrape, and collect my insurance money. if the driver is hogging the road, leaving almost no room for me to squeak by, then i can argue that it's his/her fault. just take a quick picture with my camera phone and voila! cash money. i know that's insanely stupid for me to do, so it will likely never happen, but you never know. maybe it'll just happen one day by itself, and i will finally be able to get a new car.

i just hope that the lawyers never find this blog.