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[Noog]

Mission Impossible :woot:

 

And I think I deleted it...it was a powerpoint. :(

 

I tend to mess with my teachers like that. I had the same teacher from geometry again this year and I drew penguins on my tests. :D and I covered half of a Spanish worksheet in Zebra stripes. It took the whole class period and I wanted to finish the whole paper before we turned it in. :O

[-Ryan]

Yayyy!

 

Awww. D:

Mine is too. At the end it says "Mrs. -teachersname- is probably glad this is finally over :D"

 

I do too, and my english teacher is fine with it cause she likes bunnies almost as much as I do squirrels so she understands these obsessions.

Lol, yay for zebra papers! xD

[Spritzie]

Welcome back Ryan. :D Where you'd disappear to?

 

And the poor teachers that had you two in their classes. o_O

[Noog]

My math teacher enjoys my shenanigans :P We're actually friends and I'm doing a state competition for a scholarship in math soon so...yeah :P I even drew waldo on one of my tests. XD

 

My Spanish teacher loves me too. I definitely deserved a 91 but she gave me random points that made me have a 97 last semester. I got a 100 on the homework grade in there and I never do it. :whistle:

[Spritzie]

I had teachers like that in middle school. It didn't matter what happened, they never had an issue with me. Even if I talked a lot, and they normally hated that.

 

Then there was a teacher in HS that downed my grade in psychology, just because he knew I didn't like it. It didn't matter that I did the work and had an A. :laughingsmiley:

[Wembly]

Even if teacher say they don't like drawings or crazy topics, I bet the all secretly do like them because grading 100s of papers is rather monotonous.

[Spritzie]

You're probably right. I know I had teachers that were annoyed with one trouble making kid, but they even enjoyed some of his antics. It broke up the days a bit.

[wistiria12]

what's the difference between nimmo and quiggle, since they are both frogs ?^_^

[Wembly]

Umm, is that a joke or an actual question?

 

Well I'm going with the nimmo is skinny and emo like at while the quiggle is plump and jolly. :whistle:

[-Ryan]

I tend to have awesome teachers.

 

Although a few days ago in business our sub told me he likes to buy guns from Walmart to shoot squirrels. :(

 

And I yet again had laptop issues, Spritzie. This time my battery shorted out when I tried charging my ipod.

[Spritzie]

Ryan, you really need to stop breaking your technology items.

[-Ryan]

Its not my fault! They just dont like me! T-T

[Spritzie]

You broke it. Of course it's your fault. Who else would be at fault?

[Masaryk]

I got into my first car accident today. :( Someone rear-ended me as I was waiting for a pedestrian, so that I could turn onto my street. The back hatch of my wagon is completely caved in, and I'm guessing there's some frame damage. I'm betting the car will be a write-off.

 

Strangely, I'm not really upset about the whole thing. I wasn't mad about it at the time, just a bit annoyed that I would then have to go to the police station, call the insurance company, blah, blah, blah. My husband was a bit mad about it when I first told him, but that quickly changed. Car shopping is one of his favourite things.

[Wembly]

uggh, sadness on the smooshed car. Glad you were uninjured though. I don't really enjoy car shopping. I just told the family to get the same car we had but the newer version. :rolleyes_anim:

[Spritzie]

I'm so sorry! Are you okay?

 

Don't write off your car yet. That happened to me 3 months after I bought my Rav4. I got rear-ended while sitting at a red light on New Year's Eve. (And the guy was sober.) He knew I was there, and knew the light was red. He planned to run it anyway, I guess because for some reason, he thought I was running it too.

 

But he was driving an small 80s pickup truck, which was solid metal. My back window shattered and glass made it all the way to the front seat. The back door was pretty crushed. (He pushed the spare tire which was mounted on the back door, through the door.) I was sure the frame got bent and it would be totaled, but it wasn't. Even though he did nearly $7k of damage, they repaired it. (Though it took them a month and a half to get it fixed.)

[Masaryk]

I am rather sore, but not badly injured. I'll probably go see the doctor or the chiropractor tomorrow, just to get everything checked out.

 

The car is 10 years old, so I'm pretty sure the insurance company will write it off. It just made 295,000 km today. My husband was really hoping it would make it to 500k, but I don't think that will be happening.

[Spritzie]

I'm glad you're okay. Try taking some Aleve or something, to try to get ahead of any muscle tightness and pain. That's what my doctor had me do when he saw me the day of the accident in January.

 

During the first accident, my car was nearly 8 years old. (It was in the end of 2007, and my car was a 2000.) Then in January, it was 11 years old, and the only reason they totaled it, was there was engine damage, and even though it was below their limit of damage vs car value, they were worried about hidden damage.

[Masaryk]

I guess I will just have to wait and see what the insurance adjuster has to say.

 

I found the whole thing to be a rather weird experience. I'm usually a little worried that I will get rear-ended while turning onto my street, since I'm turning off of a really busy street, and I really have to slow down, because the corner of my street is at a >90° angle. Today, I wasn't really thinking about it at all. Then, I checked my mirror, just in time to realize that the person coming up behind me likely wasn't going to stop in time. I couldn't really do anything to get out of the way, since I was at a complete stop, waiting for a pedestrian.

 

Oddly enough, it wasn't nearly as scary an experience as I thought it would be. I have no trouble with the thought of getting right back behind the wheel.

[Spritzie]

Ever since I got rear-ended, I'm obsessive about watching my rear view mirror at stop lights, stop signs, anytime when I slow down or stop. With mine, all I could have done, was pull into the empty intersection. (I was the first car waiting to turn, and there were no other cars around.) But I didn't have time. I glanced in my mirror, saw headlight coming fast, and didn't even have time to complete the thought that they weren't stopping. I had a split second, which wasn't enough to even begin to react.

 

I hate turns like that. I always put my turn signal on as far back as I can, and start slowing down. But there's way too many times when it seems like the person behind me isn't going to slow down at all.

 

I'm still jumpy. It's just hard, since I drive well. I know I not only have to drive for myself, but I have to drive for the idiots on the road. So I'm still a bit nervous under certain circumstances. And of course, Colorado is known for its idiot drivers and severe accidents.

[Wembly]

I hate driving with a passion and avoid it whenever possible.

And of course, Colorado is known for its idiot drivers and severe accidents.

You know, I have heard that before and could never really figure out why. I mean you guys get crazy weather all the time and part of me has this crazy idea that you are all calm and serene in the fresh mountain air :rolleyes_anim: silly I know. People here are just in a super rush all the time and most drive like maniacs. Its an interesting combination of crazy old people and crazy people who weave in and out of traffic to get around said old people.

[Spritzie]

:laughingsmiley: People seem to just be idiots. They don't pay attention, they're always in such a rush. Like when I got rear-ended on New Years Eve in 2007. I was at a red light, waiting to turn into my neighborhood, at 8pm. I'd had my automatic car for 3 months. For the previous 2 years, I drove a manual car, so I had the habit of watching lights for the other direction so I would know when to put the car in gear. That night, the light for the other direction had just turned yellow, so my direction had been red for a few minutes, and the truck plowed into me at a high speed.

 

I got out of the car, sobbing obviously since it was my dream car that I'd finally bought 3 months earlier after wanting it for 12 years. And the guy gets out of the car, looks at me and says "I thought you were going to run it." So yes, he saw the light was red. Yes, he saw my car. No, apparently the fact that my brake lights never came off never occurred to him.

 

And worse yet, a DUI officer was the first on the scene. The guy was 100% sober. My mom immediately called 911. His first phone call was to his mom (He was in his 30s) to discuss how much cash he had on him, because he knew he would be arrested since he skipped a court date for a speeding ticket, and there was a warrant out for his arrest.

 

Then he tried to tell my mom and I he was going to the gas station a block away to get a drink. We had to explain to him that he wasn't going anywhere until the police arrived, at which point he admitted he just wanted to go see his daughter before he was arrested.

 

Then a few months later, I got a subpoena to testify against him in a criminal trial. (It was a full jury panel trial.) Apparently, he was also driving with a suspended license.

 

I must say... he was very lucky he didn't total my car. And that I was absolutely hysterical that night. Otherwise, I would have NOT been happy. <_<

[Wembly]

You know, now that I think about it, Dog the Bounty Hunter from tv does seem to end up in Colorado a lot when he's chasing people who've skipped out on their bail in Hawaii. And the guy who hit you sounds like a real winner there Spritzie. <_<

[Spritzie]

:laughingsmiley: I was so upset. I think the fact that he was sober, and saw me and the red light, made it worse than if he'd been drunk. It actually had 2 criminal cases against him. It was crazy.

 

And my sister has been in quite a few accidents in her 13 years of driving, and only the first one when she was 15, was her fault. The accident that happened when she was 16, the guy who hit her, actually showed up at our door using her info from the accident report, and had a sympathy card and wanted to ask her out on a date. :laughingsmiley:

 

I swear, the people on the roads here, make me want to move to an itty bitty town with a population of about... 50.

 

I have so many close calls, due to people being idiots. Like I've had an old lady turning left in front of me when I was going straight. She had a turn lane, but she pulled into the intersection in my lane, then stopped. Or someone who was turning left in front of me, but didn't have a turn lane, and they stopped in my lane.

 

My husband and I saw a bad accident this morning, that we couldn't figure out what happened, judging by the cars left. (We think there must have been a 3rd car that was already removed. And it had to have been the other one involved.) One car had it's hood smashed nearly to the front window. The other car was entirely on the curb near the other car, with only the left side tires not on the curb. We couldn't see damage other than it being on the curb, so we think it swerved to avoid the accident, and ended up on the curb. They must have already towed the car the hit the other.

[Bloods_Mistress]

Morning guys. Wow, sounds like its been rough for you guys