Rain Makes Drivers Crazy in LA

Cannot Resist posting an instant message conversation from this morning. I'm M.

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09:02:00: M:   Did you get lots of rain?

09:02:19: R:   Was crazy.  

09:02:26: M:   Ooh, sorry!
09:02:38: M:   I kinda lucked out, not too many dumb folks on my roads.

09:03:34: R:   Took the canyon. Parked on Sierra Hwy, guys in the car in front of me got in a fight amongst themselves.
09:03:46: R:   that spilled out onto the street, and then got back in....

09:03:49: M:   In the car?
09:03:51: M:   Good lord!

09:03:58: R:   was entertaining.

09:03:59: M:   That's, um, awesome.

09:04:32: R:   in a lock the doors, get the cell phone ready to record, plan an escape sort of entertaining way...

09:04:44: M:   Crap. You're right.....
09:04:49: M:   to be prepared in that fashion.
09:04:58: M:   Glad you're good.  :-)

09:05:56: R:   Completely parked in.  If they had attacked me, I would have sat there unless they actually broke a window.  Then I would have pinned them against another car.

09:06:12: M:   I believe it.
09:06:23: M:   But they got back into their own car after a while?
09:06:27: M:   Or did one guy take off?

09:07:03: R:   Driver and passenger swapped seats. Former driver spent some time beating on the guy in the back seat before getting in.

09:07:24: M:   speechless.
09:07:55: M:   That is just about as crazy a story as when your engine caught fire.

09:08:08: R:   Yes.

White Noise

The hotel room was entirely too quiet; no background noise, nothing but my own lumpy heartbeat in my ear canals, and the window heater/cooler lacked a fan-only option.

Inspiration: they must make a white noise app, right? Indeed, there are several free varieties, and as soon as I get it running, I wonder how it is that I've ever slept in hotels before without it.

Sweetie has tv quietly on, for his own background falling asleep noise, but unfortunately, the talking he finds relaxing (cable news) drills incessantly into my brain, preventing my drifting into sleep.

Brilliant solution: balance my phone on the side of my head, placing the white noise directly between me and the tv bloviation!

I drift off, with a smile on my face, deeply relaxing into this perfect sleep aid invention...

...until the very moment that someone updates their Facebook status, causing a vibration notice to vibrate directly into my skull, tazing me back to consciousness and raisng me several inches off the bed.