Watch it friend

So after a nice get together with a high school friend (not the friend referred to in the title of this blog post), I was riding my bike home. Provo was of course dark by this time, and I had my protective blinking light on. That didn't stop cars from almost hitting me multiple times, which is what you get when you don't actually stop at a stop sign idiots. . . But I was in an intersection, being careful not to be run over by the car to my right, that seemed to be waiting for me to pass before blazing through the intersection - a fact I rather appreciate, when a biker T-boned me instead. She had decided to cross the intersection at an angle in the darkness with no form of light. And it was her fault, because she wasn't even looking where she was going. I didn't crash, just had to put my feet on the ground before I lost my balance. We both apologized, then went our separate ways, me with my handle bars out of alignment, imagining the people in the car saying to themselves, "you've got to be kidding me, people." I am really not mad. I just hope that this girl figures out not to cross intersections diagonally at dark with no lights or reflectors or helmet and not looking where she is going, because next time it will probably be a car or a mailbox. And those are less forgiving.