The other day I
was walking with a friend, and as we crossed the street, she paused. A moment later, crossing, she threw me this
comment: "I always try and make eye contact with the driver before
crossing." Frankly, I thought she was exaggerating a bit.
I mean, even though
walkers have the right of way, obviously it is better to be careful. I mean, if
I am walking for my health, I certainly want to take the care needed not to get
run over. But a car that has stopped for you has stopped, no?
Not necessarily.
Tonight (Monday
PM), I went swimming, and felt GREAT! I even, finally after a year and a half
of swimming, cut down my time for 40 laps (1 kilometer) from 60 minutes to 56. [Doesn't
sound like much? Well, for over a year I've been trying to increase my speed
with no success until now.] Walking home I felt energetic,
As I was crossing a
street, I saw the car that was coming brake to a stop, and as I started passing
in front of him, he started accelerating. I gave a scream and he stopped,
mumbling "Sorry".
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[SORRY!?!?!? That's ALL?!?!?!?!]
I figure that he
had stopped to look at his cellphone (or the like), and accelerated when
finished, unfortunately without looking first (maybe since it was 11:30 PM).
Lesson learned: Make eye contact with the driver when
crossing the street…..
2 comments:
and smile, too, it helps
I learned to do this when traveling through italy and greece the last few years. Sometimes the drivers will be so brazen that you have to maintain eye contact with them through the whole crossing of the street. I feel that if you look into someone's eyes you make some connection with their soul and they won't want to run you over.
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