Overdrive

so yesterday when I got home I saw this kid. I'm guessing he was around 15-16; white, blond, wearing shorts and a t shirt. That's pretty normal, I guess.

But the thing which caught my attention was that he was making a lot of noise. Like really, I'm sure the whole street could hear him.


Because he was on a motorbike. On a motorbike driving down the street, no helmet, no gloves, nothing. No license plate on the motorbike. And it was obvious he didn't just forget to wear safety gear, because he was revving the motorbike, speeding up as fast as he could, then slowing down suddenly at the speed bump, then speeding up again.

and I thought "what the hell is that guy doing".


Today on my way home I saw him again, as he drove past me, going down the street. And then I saw him again as he drove past me again, going up the street. And then a third time as he went down again. Same lack of helmet etc., same skylark-y driving behaviour.

And I thought "wow this guy really thinks he's cool."
it probably was pretty cool, because of the wind chill from going really fast.

But the uncool part is that he's probably going to end up losing control one day while driving at 60 km/h, or he's going to hit a car, and get hurt, maybe killed. And I felt like I jinxed it and he was going to crash because I was thinking about him crashing, and then I felt guilty for being responsible for the crash, and hoped that he wouldn't crash, or at least not crash when I'm around.

I was thinking about how I don't have a mobile phone so I wouldn't be able to call up an ambulance so I would just have to like, run from the scene, all the way home, and then use my home phone or something.



And then the guy didn't crash and I saw him turn into a driveway, still revving the motorbike a bit.


The moral of the story - white people are stupid LOL just kidding just don't be a retard and it will be okay.


Anyway it probably really sucks to be on the scene of an accident or death, and I'm glad that hasn't happened to me and I hope it doesn't.
Speaking of which, we watched some braveheart-like movie about Atilla the Hun instead of William, and man, I'm so glad I live in the 21st century because I don't have to fight or kill, or be in a war of any kind. Or maybe if you're raised in those times where people killed eachother a lot, maybe you get used to it and it isn't squeamish or mentally scarring or anything like that.

It's weird how people can watch gore. I always hide behind my hand a bit (okay I hide behind my hand and look away at the same time so that's like double cowardice).

If I were to live in those times I would be absolutely useless. If Atilla lived in the modern century he would probably be very ??? and either not live a very successful financial life, or cause a lot of problems. Problems like going to modern rome and killing people or something. So I'm glad we were born into our respective times

Damn barbarians keep killing my settlers and pillaging my cows.


For the english school cert I worked really, really, slowly, and I ended up having around 25 minutes for the feature article, and I was like "25 minutes left, that's what they recommend, so I have plenty of time to think this through". And then I was like "wtf 3 minutes left oh shit I've only written 2/3 of a page" and my hand was shaking a bit and I completely failed it, band 2/3 response.

And then we went outside I sat there for a while and people were unsympathetic.

And I hate how everyone is like "wow that was so easy we're all going to get 100" because it made it even worse.

and I hate how everyone is like "omg I got that multiple choice wrong, and I didn't write a title for my feature article" because it made me feel even worse. Because "uh hello I just told you I wrote a bit over one page and didn't cover the future and didn't have a conclusion?"


Anyway, today I haven't written a single word for my book yet so I should do that now, but I also need to practise for piano tomorrow, and complete some piano theory homework, and I'm not going to RvB tomorrow, and I might go to the spring fair for a little while but I'll probably end up not bothering to.

Also I got my cordual invitation without actually paying does that mean I don't have to pay now?

Also school is a complete bludge now, we didn't do any work for 7 periods today (learned a bit in maths). So I'm probably going to be spending all geo playing that world map game, all history and english watching something, all science watching people play starcraft, all engineering sanding benches and breathing in sawdust, and I don't know about latin.