Ok so I planned on not during much personal blogs, but this one is still bothering me this morning.
On my way driving to work this morning I experienced something I never have before, I almost hit a person. I have unfortunately, have hit animals before and was upset about it, but never a human being. Luckily it was in no way my fault, but that still doesn't change how it has affected me. Here is what happened:
I was coming up to a major intersection with a stop light, I was in the left hand lane with a car behind me and there was a truck in the right hand lane with a car behind it. We all were approaching the intersection and the light was green for us, so none of us even hesitated to slow down. Just as we all were reaching the intersection, we could see a woman on the other side of the intersection running into the cross walk and she wasn't stopping. I thought to myself, is she really going to keep going with all of us coming towards her?? And she did. She ran right across the road right in front of us all and I couldn't believe it. We all had to slam on our brakes, luckily i believe we all saw she was doing this and we all reacted the same. I checked my mirror to see if everyone else did what I did and they all were staring at this woman still running through the intersection and onto the sidewalk. Then we all saw what she was running for, her bus.
The bus had been stopped in the westbound lane and she was running for that. Was that really worth almost dying for and causing a major automobile accident?!??!! I didn't get mad as I kept wondering why would she do this to herself. Was catching that bus so important? If she missed it would that jeopardize something major in her life? Would she be late work and then be fired? It could have been everything.
I just keep wondering what was going through her head and why she would risk ending her life just to make a bus.
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