i got hit by a car today! wooohooooo. i was taking a left hand turn behind a car taking a left hand turn. the car behind me was going straight and must have forgot that i was there. somehow even though i was sprawled out in a major chicago intersection and the lady hit me twice not a single person stopped. the person who hit me drove off without seeing if i was ok and as soon as i got to the side of the road business continued as usual. that makes me feel really great about the motorists of chicago.

thankfully i seem to be ok. my hand kinda hurts and my gloves ripped but besides that everything is a ok. this is really disturbing because people have seemed to forgotten all road rules now that the weather is warming. i didn't have a single incident this winter and in the last week i've had numerous close calls as a biker and as a pedestrian. people running stop signs and lights, sides wipping the bike lane etc. usually the person who almost kills me is talking on a cell phone and driving an urban assault vehicle (see suv in dictionary).