Donna in Hollywoodland

Donna Grayson

Monday, November 07, 2005

Milk and Traffic

Since my stomach is still "tore Up", acidic, and I don't know what else, I decided to go to Whole Foods and get some organic yogurt.

After reading Jane Plant's books when I was first diagnosed with breast cancer, I have almost completely given up milk products. I have not had one soda pop since July, and only 1 and 1/2 alcohol drinks since July. I'm eating anywhere between 50% to 80% organic depending how lazy I feel. My one downfall is coffee, which I find is almost impossible to give up.

Getting back to the milk. With all the hormones and antibiotics that the USDA puts into the milk products, it is especially bad for woman. All those chemicals go right into your breast tissue. Jane Plant takes it a step further to say it is not natural to be eating/drinking another animal's milk. No other animals drink milk from another species, except the human. And it you compare the countries where milk is not consumed, such as the countries in Asia, you will see lower breast and prostrate cancer rates. And no calcium deficiencies, as the USDA would have you believe.

Oh, back to my milk thing - Anyway, my stomach is a mess. I am wondering if the radiation to my breast is killing the healthy flora in my tummy. So I think I might try some organic yogurt, just to see if it helps.

It is 7:10 pm, and I am heading west on Sunset on my way to Whole Foods. I figured I'd run into the one on Santa Monica Blvd, its closer and all I want is yogurt - I'm not doing a weekly grocery run.
I get near the corner of Sunset and Highland.
In the far right turn lane, is a grey truck, SUV thing. He decides he is in the wrong lane, and does a sharp left turn into traffic to get into the left lane.
Everyone slams on their breaks. A white SUV has to swerve to totally avoid him.
I slam on my breaks.

Except now the Idiot is not in the left turn lane.
He is in the left traffic lane. On Sunset Blvd at Highland.
And he has decided that he is going to make his left turn, from the left traffic lane, even though he completely blocking traffic.

I am stuck, in the middle of the intersection, right behind him. I can't move. I can't get out of the lane - there is too much traffic in the right traffic lane.
I notice his gray truck says something like "Robert Rosswell Photography" or something similar. Theres all this curley lettering on his back window.
He's a wedding photographer.

And I am honking, and he is not moving.
The light changes. And it takes him forever to move.
I am in the middle of the intersection going through a red light.

The oncoming cars going south on Highland now have to slam on their breaks to avoid me.
And the pedestrians trying to cross Sunset Blvd near the high school are cussing me out.

I am so unbelievably mad. I am fuming.
I swing by the library on La Brea to drop a book in the after-hours drop. Then I head south on La Brea.
I am so mad, I completely miss Santa Monica Blvd.
I mean, I've driven passed it, and now I realize I can't find it. I have to double-back.

When I get to the Whole Foods on Santa Monica and Fairfax, I remember why I don't shop at this store.
No parking.
There is absolutely not enough parking anywhere.
I go through the lot twice, and say forget it.
I head over to the Whole Foods on Third Street, near Kmart. There is plenty of parking there

Shopping seems to calm me down.

After not buying any diary products in the last 4 months, I look at my cart and its all diary products. And all organic.

It dawns on me. Wonder if there are one of those Photo things at Sunset and Highland that takes your picture if you go through the red light ?
Oh, no. I should have written down that idiots license plate number.
I should have taken a picture with my cell phone camera.
Wondering if I end up in court, trying to dispute a traffic ticket.

I take Highland back home, and I when I get to the corner of Sunset - I don't think I see any Photo machines near the traffic lights. I hope.

posted by Donna Grayson # 8:51 PM

Donna in Hollywoodland

Monday, November 07, 2005

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