Saturday 30th July 2011 started out like any other day. My wife had already left on her holidays to Australia and I was looking forward to joining her in a week or so. Without her, I had to make do with meals outside for a while as I didn’t cook. Don’t know how to actually. So on this day, I started out early by about 6am and proceeded to the only restaurant in Rawang selling decent Indian food for my breakfast. As I still had a lot of time in my hands, I flipped through the morning papers for a while before paying up and shooting off to work.
As I passed the railway station in Rawang, I noticed a fairly new but badly dented car along the left side of the road that was surely not there a while ago when I was heading towards town earlier. I noticed that the lamp-post that the car had ploughed into was so inconspicuously located at the very edge of the road that even if a seasoned driver were to aim to knock against it just for kicks, chances are that he would miss it! That was how far away the lamp-post was placed at the road shoulder that when placing it there, the authorities must have been convinced that there was no way any one could knock against it. In fact I was convinced that some drunken driver must have dozed off or in his inebriated state probably lost control of his vehicle before knocking against it and had come to an abrupt halt while doing about 50kmph……. I however simply brushed it aside and continued with my journey to office. Later that same afternoon, through a strange coincidence, I met up with the driver of the ill fated vehicle and was somehow relieved that the person had miraculously not sustained any serious injuries although I was told that the vehicle had to be written off.
This post is dedicated to my neighbor Bouncy Cat who complains that they don't teach multi-tasking at driving school….……like how to hold your hot coffee and move your phone to a safe distance from the coffee especially when negotiating a sharp bend, while steering with one hand...........!
6 comments:
Thanks for the post Uncle. But you know adviced by the great you, no course is greater than this advice "never let your eyes stray away from the road". I guess this is what has to be taught and not multi-tasking courses.
But yeah, thank for this funny post as i am going to link this to mine.. and oh yeah thanks for visiting me on behalf of aunty as well
Hehehe.... Yours truly,
Bouncy Cat :)
Haha. A good post!
Good post. A good angle on Bouncy Cat's experience. Enjoyed reading it.
Very interesting bro Ravi. ..lesson to be learned here....I'm going through all your other stories too...I'm amazed how you can write. .lovely. ..still reading. .
Interesting. ...lesson to be learned here. ..you can write brother Ravi. ..I'm amazed. ..later will take time to read the rest of your stories
Interesting. ...lesson to be learned here. ..you can write brother Ravi. ..I'm amazed. ..later will take time to read the rest of your stories
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