i’m still rather shaken by yesterday’s car accident.

i didn’t even get to really see what was happening. i remember us laughing about something; hearing resh suddenly saying, “watch out man!” and me turning my head to see this black car coming at us at an alarmingly high speed.

kow yells “fuck!” and swings the wheel to the left. everything starts moving in slow-mo; i remember thinking well we’ve always escaped accidents in the past and we’ll escape this one but no no no the guy’s coming too fast, why isn’t kow braking? why isn’t that guy braking? oh shit here he comes! and smash.

and up to now i’m still amazed at the damage that the other car sustained, and shocked that kow’s toyota got off so easily.

the other guy's damage
that’s how bad the other car was.

kow's car's damage
and this is how easily we got off.

i’m just glad kow wasn’t alone in the car. i’m grateful that none of us were hurt badly, that the other guy wasn’t hurt. i’m glad there were three of us in the backseat, because none of us were wearing our seatbelts. if there had only been one of us, that person would have flown. as it is, we cushioned each other’s impact. next time, seatbelts. always seatbelts.

i’ve also decided that i’m not going to go for the bike license anymore. i had horrible images of the black car smashing into a bike at the same speed. he would have taken out my legs, i would have flown across the road. smashing my head into the curb, most probably. it makes me shudder.

i hope people drive more carefully in future. i’m really glad kow’s covered by the third party insurance claim, too. it really wasn’t his fault that the guy hit us.

no lessons for the rest of the week; i’m off to cook supper with barbie and bin.

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