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i am not in a good mood right now. in fact, i'm pissed as shit.
i'm driving on the freeway and there is a incline in this one part. i see cars braking, so i start braking too. there is an SUV in front of me. as i get to the top of that hill and look down, i see this SUV drive right over something. as i approached it in the next 1 second, i realize that its a FUCKIN bed, it was a box mattress to be the exact, not the mattress part...there is no way i could have seen it earlier since it right over the hill...the suv drove right over it with no problem, but i realize i'm screwed since my car is so low... in that split second, i sense cars around me and definitely behind me...i just know i would have hit a car if i swerved to either lane next to me, so i decide there is nothing i can do but to hit it and hope i go over it...well, i must have hit it at 45mph and the damn thing got lodged under my car, like i knew it would...i slowly start to brake (i'm in the 2nd to left lane)..i know its not safe to stop on the freeway, but there is bed lodged under my car which i'm dragging with me...the car behind me came inches from hitting me...i'm at a complete stop now...my blinkers are on and it takes me 10-15 seconds before i can find an opening to cross 1 lane and make it to the shoulder...it was really scary cause at least 2 cars almost ran into me when i was stopped...i get on the shoulder i see my bumper is cracked..i tried pulling the bed out, but i cannot, its to far in there and caught on something... i tried to reverse so it would come out, it wouldnt...so i'm thinking what do i do? i decide to jack up the car to give me more clearance...i jack the car up...at this point, this box mattress is torn to shit-all these wires and wood...i am finally able to free it all from under the car while throwing a fit on the shoulder...the people who had dropped it pulled over, but then left, so i couldnt do anything...i continue my trip to downtown houston...main st has a light rail...but at this one traffic light i was in the left lane...after the light, the light rail comes swerving into the left lane, and the right lane is the driving only from that point on...i gotta say i was still thinking about what had just happened and what i was gonna do, when i drove onto the light rail lane, which is the lane i was in...i think oh shit, i gotta get off; but there are these huge yellow things (like bump stops or something) separating the light rail lane from the driving lane...i decide to jump it any way as slowly as possible...i get over it ok and think i'm ok...then i see cop behind me flashing his lights and driving fast as hell behind me to catch me...i tell him i know what i did, tell him i just got into an accident, and that i missed the sign cause i'm still shaken up, and honestly i wasnt thinking clearly at that point, i was worried about the car and anymore possible damage...he didnt really care and gave me a ticket for that and for expired registration (which i had meaning to do, but didnt)...as i'm sitting there thinking "what a great drive this has been", a black cat strolls along and sits down right in front of my car. i'm thinking, 'this is out of a movie or something'....i kept talking to the cop, but he was listening to me or giving me a chance at all...i totally understand that i made a mistake and that under normal circumstances a ticket is in order, but 2 driving lanes change into 1 driving lane without any notice (downtown houston is notorious for having misleading/no signs), and i guess missed the sign that said 'light rail lane' cause i wasnt thinking straight after the bed incident...i went back and saw this, there was no notice of the lanes merging at all, it just happens suddenly i'm more pissed about the ticket than i am the car bumper being cracked. i figure the car isnt my fault and there is no way i could have avoided it, shit happens. i deserve the ticket for registration, but i was hoping the cop would understand about me coming into the light rail was a mistake (esp with the lack of a merging sign) and let me off with a warning, after everything i had just told him i went through, cause i really wasnt paying attention cause of it... but cops will be cops, and this just continues to support my opinion that most cops are dickheads. i dont need anyone here to tell me its my fault, i know a made a mistake, but i think its excuseable after all this and i think a cop should understand. and if you dont like my opinion about cops, i dont care, i have been through many BAD experiences with cops here, rude and racist cops and will keep my opinion. anyways, here is a pic of the bumper which needs fixing 
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i ran over a bed on the freeway, then i got pulled over - 
