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Yes and No. I successfully avoided two colisions by not going into a panic. The first was in Pasedena (yes, that's where they have the Rose Parade). Back in the late 90s, a buddy of mine was playing at a coffee house out there. My DL had just come in the mail that day, and I was off. Never driven in that area before, and I found out the hard way that the city has it's share of one-way streets. I had made a left turn into one. There was no traffic at that moment, so I turned left from the middle lane. A split second later, it was full of cars (they came out of nowhere!). I tryed to get back into the street I was originally on, but there was too much trafic to merge. And there was plenty of on coming trafic. My only option: the left turn lane for oncoming trafic was open. So I drove into it, and crused in the middle lane until I was able to merge back into the street I was on. And no one honked at me.
The second time I cheated death I'll save for another time.
Have you ever heard a song that perfectly captured your mood and temperment at the time you heard it, as if the song was writen just for you? If not, then what your favorite song?
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"I don't know that I ever wanted greatness, on its own. It seems rather like wanting to be an engineer, rather than wanting to design something - or wanting to be a writer, rather than wanting to write. It should be a by-product, not a thing in itself. Otherwise, it's just an ego trip."
Roger Zelazny
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