Put in my place

Working in the middle of Half Way Tree is a treat.

There's traffic to get to work, harassment on the road when I walk to get lunch and the pedestrian masses to deal with when driving home.
Yesterday I have to say I was properly put in my place while driving and it’s not in the way you would expect.

I was turning out of my office. The road was clear when I looked so I moved off. Lo and behold a bus comes tearing around the corner and starts honking at me to get out of his way. What was I supposed to do? Reverse? I sped up and managed to not be written off by this driver but with my luck being what it is, the traffic light just had to be red.

I look over to see the driver in the lane beside me cursing me. My windows were up so it was muffled, but from the gestures I got the message that he was a tad upset. Not to be rude (okay, maybe just a little) I took out my phone to Blackberry message someone about my near death experience. This light takes forever and I had a good 3 minutes to text.

Much to my surprise, the shouting to my left increased to the point where I could clearly hear the driver's ratings. The gist of it was "You think you better than people and only you alone have nice phone, watch this" and proceeds to pull out his brand new Blackberry STORM 9500. My poor curve couldn't hold a candle.
What else could I do but laugh? I cracked up right there on Half Way Tree Road with a line of traffic behind me as the light turned green and the driver, still "gesturing" drove off.

Driver, I doubt you're ever going to read this, but if you do just know you made my day.