Infectious badcarma

So, apparently, just knowing me can cause you, too, to contract badcarma.

A friend, Miss J, was telling us how she was getting into a little "roadwork" recently.

She was giving her daughter and a friend a ride home and took a four lane "highway" in our town. That's two lanes per side. It's a commonly traveled roadway and Miss J has been on it numerous times day and night.

This evening, however, she did not count on being taken over by my powerful badcarma. Perhaps it was just knowing me. Or perhaps because I have, once or twice, ridden in her car.

Whatever the cause, suddenly, she realized she had been driving in what she thought was a third lane down the road. Just tooling along, passing other cars. Except Miss J's "third lane" was actually the bike lane.

WHOOPS! The kids in the backseat succumbed to rare wisdom and kept their mouths shut until Miss J stopped, put a hand to her forehead (possibly feeling for a pulse?) and said, "Oh my god! There's no third lane on this road, is there?" (This was actually a rhetorical question...)

To which the daughter's friend replied, "Not till now...." Smartass.

Anyhoo...no ticket, no wreck, no foul as far as I'm concerned.

But it does serve as a cautionary tale to watch whose carma you're collecting!