Burned in: That ugly guy.

So during my lunch hour today I ran a few errands. On my way home, I was crossing the street, with a 'walk sign' waving me through, when a delivery van turned the corner. The driver wasn't looking so my scream was the only thing that prevented the accident. He was taking the corner pretty quickly, so I would imagine I would have had a tough time making my next birthday had we connected.

He gave me the gratuitous "watch where your fucking going" look and I returned in kind with the "you almost killed me asshole" hand gestures. Upon leaving the scene of the nonaccident, I realized that his face was burned into my minds eye.

I know when bad things happen to people they usually can't flush it out of their memory. So now, I'm trapped with one of the ugliest men I have ever seen as permanent data in my annuals of traumatic events.

Next time I see a pretty woman about to take a corner without looking, it might behoove me to jump in the way in order to erase the previous data. Though I'm not sure that will work the same way it does in other applications.

Crap.

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