31st May 2012

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How would you act?

This is something that just really affected me, and i would really appreciate it if you gave me your opinion on what you would have done in this situation.

This evening, I was driving from my house to the nearby gas station. As i stopped at the red light at the intersection a couple hundred metres from the gas station, i noticed this one car. What caught my attention was that this street was a 2 way street (meaning cars can drive on either direction), but it there was only one lane for each direction. At this intersection, there are many people that ignore that and try to make it 2 lanes in each direction (a personal pet peeve of mine which is why i noticed the car).
This car was most likely going to head straight, so it drove around the first car and stopped right beside it, and this is when i noticed.

The man in the passenger seat (probably in his 50s) looked as if he was extremely mad about something. He kept on pointing wildly and seemed to be shouting something. At first, i thought he had gotten into an argument with the car next to him (the first car at the intersection). However the first car soon made a right turn, and the man was still angry. Then i thought he was lecturing the driver (who i couldn’t quite see from across the intersection). At this point, i thought that perhaps it was a student driver next to the passenger and the passenger was just overreacting to this minor action of making a 1 lane road 2 lanes (though technically it is kinda bad to do this).

As the man was continously making angry actions, and showed several furious facial expressions, i became more and more worried. I kept wondering what had set off this person, and whether this person was just a short tempered person. It just didn’t seem to me as if we was having a heated discussion, but was actually furious - and the only person i could think he was furious at was the driver.

You may be thinking that this is the longest red light ever, but it probably was only about 30-45 seconds i think. (i have no clue how long traffic lights are)

Just as the light turned green (or perhaps a moment just before?), all of a sudden the man took something and seemed to have hurled it straight at the driver. To me, it could’ve been a paper cup, or acrumpled paper ball. Regardless, the act of having thrown something at the driver, it just shocked me! I was shocked, and was slow to accelerate, but as i did, i saw the driver as the car moved past me.

The driver of the vehicle appeared to be a woman, about in her 40s. She may be the passenger’s wife, but i don’t think i will ever know. She was pale, but not pasty or ghastly white. Her eyes only stared forward in front of her and her vehicle. Her lips were pursed together and scrunched very small, like she was holding back every single emotion that was going through her.

I felt incredibly helpless. I have never witnessed anything like this in real life before. This freaked me out so much.

HOW DO YOU HELP SOMEONE IN THIS SITUATION??

(Everything else below is just me ranting, somewhat related to the situation above)

In school, i was told that if i were harmed by my parents or i witness my family harming other family members, i should call the police or tell a teacher or something. In martial arts, i was taught that if i were attacked by someone in a certain way, how to best react.

But how should someone react when they may have witnessed something that may lead to more violent measures? What kind of preventative, safety measures should we take?

I spoke to my mom about this after i got home, hoping that she could give me some feedback. In her opinion, this man may have been mentally unstable. If not, then he may be drunk (or may have consumed some other drug that made him more violent).

She asked me if i was the only one who saw this, and i told her that i wasn’t sure, but i was across the intersection from the vehicle, so i didn’t know whether other vehicles behind me saw this happening. Her friend (that was over when i was retelling the story), suggested that net time i should remember the license plate of the car and then call some kind of helpline.
Perhaps with the license plate and being told the general direction the car was heading towards, maybe a police car could confirm whether or this passenger really was being violent/abusive to the driver.

I feel like since school is supposed to teach us how to act (acceptably) in society, why haven’t i been taught anything to couter this? We’re taught it’s not nice to harm other people, but what do you do about people much older than you that were raised by different traditions?

For example, if you have a racist grandparent? (no offence to old people, but there are some people, young or old, that are extremely racist becuz society at the time they were raised, had a racist outlook.) You can tell them that its not nice to think this way. You can criticize them for it. You can try to correct them. But since they are older than you, and have probably taught you a lot before, they may feel that it is inappropriate for you to teach them anything about society. 

But anyways, please tell me how you would react in the story i wrote about at the top of the page!

Thanks for reading!

Tagged: drivingabusehelpopinionhow to help society?

30th May 2012

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rubywhiterabbit:

My little brother got into outer space and stuff so my step-mom bought him a place mat with all the planets on it. When I first saw it, I was upset, because it was newer and so Pluto wasn’t labeled. I was about to say something when I noticed something…

Pluto is there.

The artist remembered Pluto.

Guys…

The artist drew Pluto crying.

Source: rubywhiterabbit

21st May 2012

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Sunscreen and siblings

My bro was going outside, shirtless, to do yard work. I told him to put in sunscreen since he burns more easily than me. He then told me to put on sunscreen since I was also doing some yard work in the back yard. I looked at my self and I was wearing a long sleeve shirt, long pants, and a cap. I 95% of my skin was covered since I don’t like tanning. I told him it wasn’t necessary since I wouldn’t be out as long as him.
Then he called a brown child, since I am naturally a bit darker than him.
(I then called him pasty).
Poor bro. He gets beet red when he drinks a bottle of beer, he burns easily and he gets sick easily.

18th May 2012

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So… about videos getting disliked but no one leaves constructive criticisms…

Well, i covered a song in English a few months ago (when i was more noob that i am now… i’m still pretty noob tho). recently tho, i’ve had some random people dislking my video. I’m unsure if its becuz of the singing or bcuz of the video (tho probably the vocals). But there is nothing written that can tell me to improve!!

I wrote in the description when i first uploaded the video:

Please leave your thoughts in the comment section below! I know I need to improve, but without constructive feedback, I won’t know what to work on.

But no strangers have told me what to improve on…

oh well.

BAH!

27th March 2012

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My mom got mad at me for driving my car to school today, saying its unsafe for older bro to drive his sports car since it just started snowing (in the past hour or so). I told her that he left before me this morning and I thought he wouldve driven my car, but he didn’t. My mom said that it’s my fault becuz I always complain about how I want to drive my car, so my bro was being nice and left my car at home.
Yes, I complained about wanting to drive my car, but i was speaking about NEXT SCHOOL YEAR. Not this school year, or even this month.
Frustrating how my mom remembers me complaining, but doesn’t remember me asking her first. (-___-“)

The reason I was complaining about not having a car is becuz I was NOT going to bus next year to school and I wanted to get a parking pass. Why is this relevant? Becuz my bro is getting married next year so one of the things that needed to be discussed is that bro needs to get another car for winter driving and perhaps one (more?) to share with his fiancé. So since the idea of getting a car for the new school year is now out the window, I had to say flat out that no matter what, (I am going to sound selfish) I am not going to ride the bus to school. That was something that my mom (, my bro) and I had come to an agreement, way way WAY before his engagement. I felt like if I didn’t say anything, then it would be like I consented to not having a car, at all. Period. End of story. Nope, that’s not gonna happen.

So hearing my mom get mad at me for complaining is a little bit irritating since an agreement had been made, it was rearranged to compromise my bro’s engagement-marriage plans, and now everything is twisted up and made to make me sound worse than I am.

Prior to this arrangement, my bro and I have an existing arrangement of me being able to drive my car during the time of no snow, and then my bro would drive the car during the winter, or colder months when there is snow (or it’s about to snow since he can’t drive his sports car in the winter).