Friday, September 22, 2006

I was in an accident last week. My bus hit an auto and it toppled over. The bus driver ran out of the back door and didn't come back. The people in the auto were ok and we, in the bus, were just annoyed that it had to happen when it was raining so hard.
 
And today, another accident.
 
Is there a patron saint of accidents?? Anyway, this time I was on my way to work and we were about 10 mins to destination. A truck tries to overtake us, my driver swerves for some reason and the truck hit/scraped a window. I was fast asleep and woke to the sound of shattering glass. Glass showered over 4 girls sitting on those seats and Squeal! Shriek! The bus stopped, the truck stopped and both the drivers proceeded to yell at each other for the next 15 minutes. Then we finally went to work. Why do people smile so much after an accident in which nobody was hurt? Adrenalin rush? Oh we live again, so let us be happy? Anyway, in the 10 minutes that it took to go back home, everybody was big grins and loudly talking of all the other accidents they/their family/their hairdresser's third cousin's great aunt had been in. Much fun.
 
This would be the third bus accident I have been in without getting hurt. I am going to run out of luck one of these days.
 
What plans for the weekend?

10 comments:

  1. Just 6 more dear...
    A cat has 9 lives ;-)
    weekend plans: mailed to the group :-)

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  2. People smile after an accident? I didn't know that. Wierd.

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  3. These did. And the people in my previous bus-auto mashup. But not in the first bus accident i was in. Maybe because people died in that..

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  4. And it is not a smile, it is more like a crazy, i-can't-help-myself type of grin. Some people, not all.

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  5. the reason people smile/laugh after an accident is the same reason we laugh at slapstick comedies or at step-on-rake-bang-face comedies or tom and jerry. it's born of relief. research has proven that even chimps do the same. bonobos have sex after they've faced danger. but bonobos have a lot of sex anyway. so this is pointless. anyway. yeah. adrenalin. serotonins. all that.

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  6. I find that fascinating...so apparently evolution hasn't changed us that much at all. It just taught us to wear pants and depend on dinosaur remains buried millions of years ago.

    I want to watch Tom and Jerry now.

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  7. roadrunner show is better. whenever wile e coyote gets smashed by an anvil falling out of the sky is when i laugh the most. but that may also be because i'm a sadist.

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  8. Yeah, when I worked at a summer camp two kids got struck by lightning one night (fer serious). They were ok, and after that, everything was funny to everybody. Announcements like "the pop machines are broken" garnered applause and laughter.

    Then people ask everybody what's so funny, and everybody just says that they're laughing along with everybody for the heck of it. Weird.

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  9. Wierder...and wierder.

    And I agree, roadrunner show is awesome. Eventhough I knew that the coyote would fail each and everytime, I couldn't help but root for that guy.

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  10. Desert rose.........................
    ...................................

    i wanted to say some other stuff but its too much work to say things right now.

    im cold.

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