driven

last night as i was driving home with my mom and my sister, these four guys started... well... acting weird (for the lack of a better word), and sorta freaked my mom out. (it was well after midnight) anyways, i told her to chill... "mom, they're just a bunch of guys out having fun..." -- not that i approved of their antics, but i had the options of: a) driving - with my wits intact, b) driving - with my wits shaky and two hysterical females on my hands, or c) losing my temper and banging my car into the bigger, older one that carried the culprits. (thats always a good option, but then you have to pay for car damage) i chose option a, which was all good, since the nice boys waved us goodbye before driving off in another direction. ive noticed men tend to thynk women out of doors after sunset are... morally challenged... or whatever. there were tyms i'd be held back at work, and on the way home after 11, i ALWAYS had to put up with all kinds of looks, gestures, and escorts who felt it their duty to see me safely off home... and i DO appreciate their good intentions. id avoid the first two by digging in my nose while waiting for signals to turn green. and i tell you folkses it works like a charm.   but there HAVE been times ive been driven over the edge (no pun intended).

like thys one tym (american pie style?), i was coming home, and thys self proclaimed romeo tried to give me his number. and he chose to do thys by blocking my car. i ignored him, backed my car, turned into the enclave i live in (it's a pretty small residential area with like 150 or so houses). and he followed me in. and he followed and he followed and he followed. there was NO way i was going to take him home, so what i did instead was that i began circling the area...

unfortunately for him, i had credit in my cell, i picked it up, called my brother and told him to "get the hell out of the house, there is thys ******* following me... kill the ******!". it seriously WAS the guy's bad day, cuz i also spotted a group of guys, a few of whom were close friends, and led him straight to that group. hawr har har.

you dont even want to know what happened after that. i got home safe, and once my brother DID get back in, he told me sternly never to involve him in such a situation again... "you'll get some poor soul killed by me." oh fine! if your sister's honour means nothing to you. hmph :/ and my mom? my mom said: "beta, had you just taken the number from him, none of thys wouldve happened!" umm... hello? oh yeah! and she said: "it mustve been that hat you were wearing, how many tyms must i tell you not to leave the house wearing hats." oh bother!

then thys other tym, there was another car (a new verrry fast, one verrrrrrry amazing one, and i admit the guys in it were cute). but there were four of them this time. and i was alone, it was kinda late and i had absolutely no credit in my fone. and then i seriously couldnt get rid of them... to the extent that i actually became nervous.

what does a girl do in such a situation? she goes to the cops :D i used to pass the chief minister's house on my way home, and that place is crawling with security. so... all i had to do was, stop my car smack in the middle of the road right in front of the CM's house. if you pull a similar (read: stupid) stunt, the cops can kill you :)... but they saw a girl, being chased by a silver XXX, screeching to a halt... a couple of law's guardians rushed up to me and asked if i was in trouble. the other car obviously ran off, and i didnt bother getting the number cuz it wasnt worth it, but i was so proud of me. :) ofcourse the minute i got home, i called my police uncle and asked him to get me tinted glassed in my car... for "security reasons".

the experience was pretty harrowing. and i didnt bother disclosing it to my folks for three days, cuz i knew they'd flip, id get banned from coming home by myself, and i'd have to switch cars with my brother. so i confided in F instead.

now F is ultra cool. (that's all you need to know about her).

and a couple of days later, she had a better story to tell."you know when you told me about those four guys n all?" i was like.. "yeah? woman, what have you been doing?" so she narrated her tale:

'i was going home last nite, and these two guys started following me... they followed and followed and followed until i was almost home... and i had that thyng in mind when you had said you didnt wanna lead a guy to your house ... so pretty close to my place, i swerved my car in the middle of the road, until it was parked horizontally, switched off the engine and got out. those guys had nowhere to go and they were probably like thynking... "what's thys woman doing?"

"so i walked up to their car, slammed my fist on the windshield and shouted 'what the **** do you thynk you are doing?'"

i stopped her half way to double check facts. Q: you got out of your car? A: yes *grin* Q: you switched off your engine? A: yes *bigger grin*  Q: you walked up to their car? A: yes *bigger grin gets wider* Q: did you even for a minute stop to consider what you were doing? A: ummm *bigger grin starts to shrink* Q: do you realize they could have pulled you in the car had they wanted and driven off with you? A: ummm *grin wiped off face* "but they ran off," F said, by way of explanation.

she swears they ran off. and she swears i served as an inspiration in the whole drama. *sigh* i swear i have never tried to inspire stupidity in people. i guess it comes naturally to me.