chuma.org

This morning I had a rather harrowing experience on the 401 (very long, large highway). I was on a ramp that was joining with some other ramps to create the collector lanes on the 401 Eastbound around Dixie Rd. in Mississauga. As such, there was lots of nice empty pavement in front of me and the few cars around me, and so we were accelerating up to around 110kph. Suddenly, ahead of me in the lane on my left, cars started swerving out of that lane rather quickly. I caught a glimpse of what they were dodging from between bumpers: a concrete barrier, about 1.5m square, was skidding along in the middle of the lane. I was forced to move into the lane next to me to avoid cars that were swerving into my lane and decelerating – I’m lucky that the lane was there and that it was unoccupied. As I passed the commotion, I noticed a pickup truck that was pulling over onto the shoulder – which had another of these concrete thingys in its bed. Evidently, the barrier had fallen out of that truck somehow – I didn’t actually see it happen, so I have no idea how. It didn’t even look like two of these things would have fit in the pickup’s bed, so maybe it was balancing on the edge of the tailgate or something…

Anyways. The only reason I drove all the way into the city today was because I’m going to the Sleater-Kinney show tonight. Seeing that they only play north of the border every few years or so, I jumped on this once I saw the announcement in my weekly TicketBastard mailing. And I’m going with Jordan, which will be fun. Damn, that’s an old photo of her.