Monday, April 18, 2005

Oh the Smell of Burning Rubber

as u might hv guessed from the title...today i VERY nearly got into an accident again...partly my fault n partly the other party's lah...but unfortunately for u guys, i managed to avert it...so i'll still be around for a while lah :P

anyway...i was driving home after sch n was passing the shang-wu primary sch area hawker centre when i tot i saw my frens walking beside the road...so i turned my head to see (it wasnt them, as it turned out)...n when i turned back again, some crazy van driver had cut into my lane AND slowed almost to a stop cuz he wanted to turn in at a break in the road divider. fortunately i rammed on the brakes (this was the hardest i've ever hit the brakes btw...the few - or more - times i got into an accident, it was either during reversing or someone else hit me; except that time at phor tay when i probably din brake hard enuf n hit YSS's car as a result) n managed to stop in the nick of time...but the incident relly jarred me...not juz the scare but the physical 'stress' of decelerating so fast lah...there was actually a huge SCREEEECH sound as my car came to a halt n the 'smell of burning rubber' reached my nose immediately after that...luckily there wasnt any cars behind me or something REALLY bad mite hv happened...

n besides that, it was embarassing too...cuz a lot of ppl turned their heads especially the pedestrians n motorcyclists...luckily there wasnt anyone i knew...or if there was, then i din c them :P anyway, lesson learned - never turn ur head on a bz street, n look out for crazy van drivers!

8 comments:

Tan Sri said...

if u did get into another accident, i think u wouldnt get to drive for a year...

sjune said...

driving really headache 1.....today i had my first driving lesson oso....

gonna write it at my blog :P

samuel_lhc said...

we have side mirrors on on the car, use them!!

sjune said...

but i think its better to look at the back

dunno my dad told me so

raptor_ravenlord said...

hmm...if i was watching the side or rear view mirrors i wud be dead by now...the van was in front n to the side..then he cut into my lane juz like that

sjune said...

seems like it is not ur fault

raptor_ravenlord said...

well i dunno...i mean i din SEE his signal light flashing so i'm not sure whether he actually signalled or not. but he sure is one big mutha...coming into my lane so fast...

sjune said...

mebbe he flahed but u din c it.....hahaha