Yesterday
So yesterday was a day like many others. A few notes: I drove to a cafeteria-style restaurant near my apt. that I passed the other day. Its a local ‘hofbrau’ and I had been meaning to check it out. It sells turkey, roast beef, and similar. Those cafeteria style restaurants really take me back to school days. Anyhow, I parked on the road. Then an asian lady passes me and says hello, and I say hello back. I then take a look at the street sign- just to make sure it doesn’t have some sort of weird regulations regarding when one cannot park- as is often the case throughout SF. I then see that same asian lady in here Prius back her car up towards my car. She is backing up relatively fast, and I assume she’s going to slow down. I guessed wrong. Thud!! She backs right into my car. Then, hearing and likely feeling the collision, she decides she’s backed up enough, moves forward a bit and parks. I am just stunned at this point. This crash was completely avoidable- my car was parked, still. She was in no rush and had plenty of room behind and in front of her- a car length in front and behind.. How someone can botch something like that is simply remarkable to me. What happens when some level of difficulty is involved? So it was a bit surreal saying hello to her, then five seconds later, her slamming into my car. Fortunately no damage was done- the Prius is a light car. I tell her nothing to worry about- no damage done. She says “oh okay, good. oh is that your car!”. i said yeah it is, but it appears fine. She said that objects in the TV appear further than they are. I wasn’t sure what she meant- perhaps the Prius uses some sort of camera technology rather than a rear-view mirror. Or perhaps she was watching Price is Right in her car rather than using the mirrors!
I then went into the cafeteria and was having dinner, watching the Bulls vs. Cavs. The game was ending with the Bulls up. I was amazed by how Lebron was basically playing the Bulls by himself. The rest of the Cavs look completely incompetent. Here were the plays I watched in quick succession: Lebron fouled, makes two free throws, Lebron swats Bull’s layup for a block on the defensive end, Lebron dribbles it upcourt and drains a 3, some random Cav (not Lebron) tried to lay the ball up and missed the rim entirely [it was just pathetic- that sort of shot at the NBA level]. The Bulls ended up winning, perhaps because they had more than 1 player who could actually do something with the ball. At the end Lebron had the ball; I suppose ordinarily one might pass the ball, but the other Cavs seemed to make no effort to get open, just mouth agape looking at Lebron waiting for him to rescue them…again. So Lebron drove against 3 Bulls players, drew some contact, but no foul. Game over. My feeling towards what I saw can best described as pity. With a supporting cast like that, Lebron’s not going to win any championships any time soon. I mean they were comically bad. Illguskas comes off the bench and was 0-9 from the field. In team sports, there’s a limit to what any one man can accomplish.
