boulevard-ijab (IJA & ME) - one half completing the other half....

Lonely & Abandoned 'Roads'

Last week, Tuesday 27 February 2007, my wife was admitted to the Hospital UKM, to monitor the baby's heart rate. Alhamdulillah, both wife and baby were fine and she only had to stay at the hospital for a night.

The next morning (Wednesday), I was rummaging through my wife's stuffs as she told me she had forgotten to bring her medical card. She had asked me to pass her the card, before I headed off to work. The card was for the doctors to review her previous check-ups.

However, I couldn't find it anywhere. Thankfully, being a doctor she is, she could still remember the data in the card and therefore, she would just relay that information verbally to her doctors.

I only realised I was already late for work after I started my car. Usually, at times like these, I would still keep my cool despite running late. I don't believe in rushing so much to the extent of endangering own and other people's life (if driving recklessly) or cursing other people (if the person in front is walking so slowly). I believe that the best way to do is try to make up the time already lost and try to reach whichever destination at the best time possible.

When I arrived at this one intersection (it was nearby the hospital where my wife was admitted), the traffic from the right was not that busy. There was another driver in front of me, driving a car of the same make and model. Both of us were waiting for the traffic to be cleared, before we could turn and take the right lanes.

I saw a last car had just passed us by and there was not a single vehicle behind it. At that time, my attention was only to the right when I released the brake and started pressing slightly on the gas pedal. That was then when I turned my face around to look to the front again. Unfortunately, it was a bit too late...

'Gedebush' - ugh, I hated that sound. That wasn't the sound of a papaya which had fallen off from its branch or a someone who had been punched by an opponent, a Tamil movie style.

If only I had known the car in front of me hadn't moved an inch, I wouldn't have released the brake yet (but later, the car did move a little bit due to the slight impact that my car exerted on hers... sigh).

The first thoughts that came to my mind were, 'what the heck was she waiting for and why was she still not yet moving? She was still looking to the right?????? Was she afraid that some kind of an invisible car might just suddenly appear or something??'

Despite all those questions that came to me, I knew traffic rule would still say I was at fault, coz I banged her from behind. I stepped out to look at the kind of damages I had caused to both our cars. Nothing on mine but some slight damages to her bumper and bonnet.

The whole situation gave me a deja vu feeling all of a sudden. This was the second accident I had while driving by myself (alhamdulillah, both are minor). The first one was when I was on my way back hometown for my wedding. I could still remember how shaken both my parents and my wife (at that time, still a fiance) were when I relayed the news over the phone.

So, what part is the deja vu? Well, both accidents occurred when the traffic was at its peak. Despite many people were around at that time, they all just left/ignore us and let us sort things out ourselves. None of them actually bothered to help, other than to peek from their windows and looked away; more like telling themselves 'why bother, just a dent'. To tell you the truth, I felt kind of lonely and abandoned at those times. I don't know why, I just felt it that way (on both occasions). Not that I expected everyone to gather around and asked me how I was doing or something. Now that would be an unnecessary chaos! Hmm....

And God forbid, I wasn't hoping for a much serious accident either. In fact I am so thankful both accidents only affected properties (which could be replaced and repaired), with no injuries whatsoever to anybody.

Ya Allah! May You spare me and those I love and care about in this world, from any kind of untoward incidents or accidents. Aaaameeeennn....

P/S: The first one I had was during a crawl at the Highway, near Seremban exit. I was hit from behind, and quite a bad one. And the other car (believe it or not, it belonged to an Ah Long) was worse. It was badly smashed and couldn't move anymore. Luckily, we acted like civilised people (and he never offered me any loans either, hehe) and we agreed on me claiming from his insurance. In fact, the first things he asked me to do were to write down his car plate no., his I/C no. and his phone no. He sort of admitted his fault, for accidentally pressing the gas pedal so hard during a crawl...

Labels: Life, My car, Road Safety

posted by The Pisces Man @ 6:24 pm