Exciting times

Everyone is out to get me! Well, as of leaving work yesterday evening this is how it seems...

Exciting situation number one (thankfully not really aimed at me):
I went for a drink with friends, I was standing outside looking in the window at them, one was making threatening gestures at me out the window with a candle so I leaned over and pretended to be kissing the window where she was seated. She leaned over and did the same thing, forgetting that she'd just put the candle down... This girl is very proud of her appearance and spends a lot of time on her hair and makeup...and had hairspray/something in her hair, it went up in flames! I was outside banging on the window and she didn't even realise that a chunk of her hair was on fire. Thankfully when she did it went out quickly but there was a lot of burnt charred hair and when I went back inside the place stank of it! The poor girl had to go home and shower to get rid of the smell :(

Exciting situation number two:
I was waiting at the bus stop, a bus had just arrived and I was letting other people on while I finished a cigarette. I threw the butt away and started getting on the bus, turning as I did to blow the last of the smoke out the doors (because I wouldn't want to be a bus driver and have people blowing smoke in my face all day long). It was only because I was doing this that I realised that the bus doors were closing, on me! Now, this does happen accidentally a lot of the time, but what had happened in this incident was that the bus driver had *purposefully* closed the doors on me because he didn't want smoke on his bus! He then gave out to me that I should have stayed on the side of the road because he didn't want any smoke on the bus. Arsehole! He refused to give me his name but I took down the license plate number and I'm very tempted to go into CIE and complain about him for reckless endangerment. Accidents happen, but closing the bus doors on someone is dangerous and I could have been hurt while he was protecting his clean air!

Exciting situation number three:
I was walking down a narrow street this morning which is generally littered with lorries making deliveries. Due to it being so narrow, they have to park on the footpath to let other traffic by. I was on the footpath when one driver decided to do just that, except he didn't seem to notice that I was walking along beside him. He put his first bumper over the kerb and just kept going, getting closer and closer to me without seeming to have any intention of stopping until he was right beside the wall (and most of them do park right against the wall). I had to jump forward and thump on the passenger door so that I wouldn't be crushed! He hadn't been checking his mirrors and hadn't even seen me, my head barely cleared the passenger door into his line of sight. If it had been a small child they'd have been crushed and he probably wouldn't have even noticed.

So now I have returned to the sanctuary of my office, I don't think I should have left last night :(

-d