16 miles to work and it took over an hour to get here this morning. I’m stuck in traffic, constantly cursing the fact that I only moved one or two car lengths every few minutes. Eventually I was detoured by police and the back roads were just as full with people not knowing where they were going and thus driving 6 or 7 MPH. Add onto this that I forgot my coffee and that I was awoken by my daughter 30 minutes before the alarm went off and couldn’t get back to sleep, and I was cranky.
I shouldn’t be.
Sitting in traffic for an hour is nothing compared to the agony that little girl is going through nor the panic that surely must have gone through her parents’ minds. Sometimes, when you’re pissed off at the world, it helps to have a bit of perspective.
Prayers go out to the little girl and her family.
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I don't care if you are in a cross walk, or even if you have the light in your favor (which she reportedly did not), in a contest between a human being and a 3000 lb deadly weapon, the human is going to lose.
Every time.
Pay attention to what the heck you are doing.
Any bets as to the odds of the involvement of texting or dialing a cell phone while walking in this incident?
Yeah, I know...I'm a cynic. Sue me.
But when they say "...it looks like everything is going to end okay." she still may never have normal use of that arm again, even if they don't have to amputate it. Some breaks just can't be put back to normal.
Prayers for the girl and family for sure. It's terrible and tragic; doubly so because it's so preventable.
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Turns out the cause was that two people in a taxi were killed in a collision with a speeding, stolen Toyota Landcruiser.
Puts a different perspective on things.
Putting things back in perspective is a good thing.
We should all do it more often.
We are too busy thinking about ourselves and what we can get or how something impacts us to care about the true issues at hand.