restrictions and such
As some may know there are certain restrictions placed upon indiviuals who drive. One such restriction is the "a" restriction...and those of you who have it know what I'm talkin about.Well, last night I learned...via good experience...why exactly that restriction is necessary. Due to circumstances beyond my control, I had to make a 20 minute drive from a friend's house back to mine without the aid of my corrective lenses. Those of you who know me well know that I'm decently blind without some sort of optical correction.
So thankfully nothing major happened...just a couple of almost minor incidents that made the trip rather harrowing. The first was fog. Picture this, you can't see a thing...it's all blurry, but your headlights give enough light that you can stay on the road, though the haze on your windshield distorts them. Then you drive into a patch of fog, and the side of the road disappears, as does everything but the trail of your headlights. You try to use the good half of your broken glasses and close the other eye, but that only makes things worse b/c you have absolutely no depth perception at all (and the fact that the lense is a prescription too strong doesn't help either...).
That's how the whole ride home went...only I didn't ever try to put the glasses on again, b/c I learned that was just going to make it worse. Most of it was highway, so as long as I could see reflectors I could gauge where I was and stay in a lane. Until I had to turn off the highway...that was rough, almost turned into a ditch, and then just about drove straight into the front yard of a church...
posted by CEM @ 8:48 PM
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Please don't scare me like that again! I have enough gray hair as it is!
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