Rough Morning
OK, so this morning I'm driving my wife to work and kids to school/daycare.
I'm heading down Broad Street towards the Brew Works and I see a green light in
front of me. Sunlight was glaring really bad off of a car and all I could see
was the green light and that the path in front of me was empty.
The entire lane of on coming traffic was in glare and I couldn't make it out
which shouldn't matter since I wasn't planning on driving on the wrong side of
the road. As I get closer and the glare clears there is this crossing guard on
the side of on coming traffic who obviously wanted me to stop. So I did. I
didn't lock up the tires or even stop all that hard. In fact, it was only
slight harder of a stop than normal. As in, if I had something sitting on my
seat it would not have slid off and no tension was on my seat belt that I would
expect from a hard stop. Still, trying to be a nice guy, I rolled down the
window to apologize and explain that I really didn't see him. Instead I got
to listen to this elderly man yell at me and basically give me a high and
mighty
attitude. All the while I'm trying to explain and apologize. If he had just
shut up for 2 seconds he might have actually heard what I was trying to say.
Apparently you have to poses precognitive powers and just intuitively
know that,
even though you have nothing in your path of travel and a green light
that you should stop.
It's not like I went out of the house saying, "I think I'm going to run over
some kids today!" Sheesh...
I'd feel utterly horrible if I hurt someone, especially a child. Even if it
was a complete accident.