Hung out with the guys (Kev & Haile) this weekend. Sometimes, we do the most random things or have the most random conversations. Here are some things that went down this weekend:
So we’re sitting in stop-&-go traffic in one of the FasTrak lanes at the Bay Bridge toll plaza. A cute asian girl with white sunglasses in a corolla in the lane to my right signals to merge into my lane. I let her in and she gives me the courtesy wave. I notice she has a UC Berkeley Optometry license plate frame and make a comment on it (i forget what). Being impatient with the traffic, I notice that the lane to my right (where the corolla was just in) looks like it’s moving faster, so I switch to that lane and move up a couple car lengths. What I didn’t notice, however, was that lane really wasn’t a lane, and so I had to merge back into the lane I just left. And I turns out that I moved exactly one car ahead, which was the corolla I had let in earlier, so I ended up in front of her.
I really didn’t notice it at first, but Haile hella called me out on it, and I know it looks bad, but it wasn’t a premeditated move. I genuinely did not know that that wasn’t a lane, and I didn’t purposely let her in so that I could just cut her off later. I’m not spiteful / vengeful like that. Well, at least not in this particular case, since I really didn’t have a cause or motive. But I’m sure it must’ve looked like that from her point of view. Haile said to give a courtesy wave, but I was so embarrassed at what just happened, I couldn’t. So, to the asian girl in the corolla with the UC Berkeley Optometry license plate frame, “I’m sorry for cutting you off. I swear, it was unintentional.”
Somewhere along the drive to Santa Ramen, either Haile or Kev mentioned that they hadn’t had honey walnut shrimp in hella long**. I say the same exact thing, and then so does the 3rd person (Haile or Kev). After determining that Panda Express didn’t count, we decide to go get some honey walnut shrimp after ramen. We were already planning on going to Dessert Republic sometime after (for dessert, duh), so we looked around that general area for chinese restaurants. Lucky for us, there were plenty to choose from. The first place had just walnut shrimp, no honey. The second place had walnut shrimp, but in “special sauce”. The third place had walnut prawns, but this place we asked if there was honey sauce, and they said “yes”, so we went in and got our honey walnut shrimp fix. We just ordered their entree plate, and it was huge. And it came with hot & sour soup, too. It was pretty good, but we had just had ramen, and were still going out for dessert. Needless to say, we were all hella full at the end of the night.
**In retrospect, the 3 of us couldn’t determine exactly who first mentioned it, nor how it was brought up during our conversation. We went over what we were talking about, and came to the conclusion that there was no logical segue to honey walnut shirmp. So random.
