100 Facts in 100 Days: Fact 68
Posted on September 29, 2006 @ 10:29 pm
68. I have a slight phobia when it comes to parking garages. I attribute the fear to seeing far too many ambushes, kidnappings, and attempted vehicular homicides take place in parking garages through the years on television and in the movies. Now, every time I set foot inside a parking deck, I half expect a mysterious assailant to appear in a nondescript black sedan, roll down a tinted window, shoot me in the chest a couple of times, and then peel out.
[Ed. note -- I wrote this entry before I was hit by a car this morning. It turns out I should be afraid of crosswalks, not parking garages.]
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I’m always afraid to hit someone when going around those corners. Or wedging my car under those low ceilings when going up a ramp (and I’m in a tiny car)!
It doesn’t help that parking garages are paved with the squealy kind of pavement/cement that makes a 3mph turn sound like you’re going for the big finish at the Indy 500.
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Your phobia is well founded. I got T-boned in my parking garage at work this week. The good news? I was driving a loaner.
So they make you feel like Julianne Moore in Safe?
You got hit while walking across a crosswalk?!
That’s so unbelievable. Well, I guess not so unbelievable since the administration at the college I attend had to close off one of the inner-campus streets because students/pedestrians kept getting hit by cars while crossing the crosswalk. Some people just shouldn’t drive while cell-phoning.
Do you check the back seat of the car too? I can’t drive anywhere without checking the backseat.
I once realized that I had forgotten whilst driving down the highway and freaked out because I couldn’t take my eyes off the road long enough to do a thorough check and was convinced that i was going to see a head pop up in my rear view mirror shortly before my life ended.
Well I hope that no one ever comes screeching to a halt and opens fire on you. I don’t feel that I am that darned important for someone to go to that kind of trouble and risk to do in. Though I guess it could happen. Sorry to hear about the sidewalk incident though that’s gotta hurt.