The sports editor, Kyle, and I just got back from the women’s golf 2010 NCAA Western Regional Tournament, where SJSU is in the top 10 in team play and sophomore Madeleine Zeigert tied for first place in individual golf.
It was beautiful weather at the course yesterday and today. As Kyle and I drove into the parking lot this morning, we had a little bit of a mess. There were so many car-related incidents, it was not even funny.
First, Kyle had to punch the breaks as a big white team van began moving backwards toward us. We were not sure what was happening, and our confusion heightened when the van stopped in its tracks and sat there for about 30 seconds. Once it began moving again, we watched as it almost skimmed the paint off of a nearby car. The van began re-positioning to avoid such an incident, and finally it moved through the parking lot without snagging a bit of a nearby vehicle.
Before we knew it, another car was backing up into us – this time from the junction to an additional lot for parking. It breezed through the junction, peeling back into the regulation parking lot and right towards us, the driver seemingly not bothering to look behind him/her.
Next, a car began driving toward us as if it owned the lot. Even though we had been sitting there for five minutes already waiting for the van to fix itself up, this car felt it had the right off passage through the parking lot intersection. That was alright, though – just odd. We moved on, passing into the additional lot.
As we drove through that lot, I looked left and saw a car backing up right into my door. I almost yelled “HONK!” but then I realized the driver would not be able to hear me. I knew Kyle hadn’t seen the car backing up into his car, so I reached over and hit the horn, right as the car bumped into us. The driver noticed – both from the bump and the honk – and stopped to pull forward. We then got out and checked Kyle’s car, only to find no damage whatsoever. We parked and got out of the car.
This, however, was not the end.
Kyle and I are walking through the lot, over to the clubhouse, when out of nowhere a car almost pulls right into my left leg. He stops short, and motions through his window that he was sorry.
In sum: a van almost crunched us behind it, a car backing up almost slammed into us, another car ignored everyone else in the lot, a car actually hit Kyle’s car, and a man almost backed his Hyundai into me.
Well, glad to know that it was all work it – SJSU is most likely going to Nationals, and Zeigert won the individual regional tournament crown.
-Daniel Herberholz
