Not The Day For Driving

Today most certainly was not the day for driving around. Well, petrol is cheaper but that does not mean I can afford to drive everywhere. And my parking leaves a lot to be desired so I decided to take a risk and hitch a ride with Nic to Phi Yen and he decided to be super hero and cut across 3 lanes on Stirling Highway to get to a turning. I tell you my heart nearly stopped and I was screaming when he did that with no warning. Clearly Nic, my nagging on the way there didn’t work now did it?

Then on the way back, I was driving out and I made sure I looked at the pedestrian crossing before I did anything. I even took my foot off the accelerator and hovered it above the brake just in case. Then just as I was halfway across the crossing, this girl just runs out from my right and I had to jam brake. And even then, she stopped just in time as well and she was literally inches from the front of my car. I was probably more ticked off than scared at the point of time. Here I was taking extra precautions and then this reckless girl just runs across. The people around us were looking and were shocked she had just literally sprinted across it. I mean come on, if you were walking and I was not halfway across the thing I would have stopped for you. But nooooooo, just run and don’t look where you are going.

Clearly karma just came to bite me back on the bum for nagging at Nic today. And I quote Nic: “You are like the mum I already have” in terms of nagging. How nice to know that when I eventually have kids, they’ll have to hear me nagging them about their driving when I nearly hit pedestrians 2 weeks in a row.

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