Hit by a car again

It’s been four years since my England incident of being hit by a car. Well, apparently October is just a bad month for me and being hit by cars because it’s happened again, four years down the road, and again, in another country.

It’s actually kind of complicated how it happened. It was at a ’sort of’ intersection where there was a light however the only place to go was into a parking lot. There was a sign saying no left turns for trucks (or so it looked like) and suddenly a car turned left right in front of me and really quickly out of nowhere. I slammed on my brake and so did he, but I still slammed right into the side of a big nice looking van, leaving two massive dent marks. He stopped, offered me money, which I refused because I really didn’t get what had happened and well, I was okay and my scooter was okay. (except for a big scratch complete with white paint marks on the side). Since he wanted to give me money I’m pretty sure it was his fault or maybe he didn’t have a license but it’s hard to say because everything happened so fast!

But even if it was, at least he didn’t a> yell at me and try to take advantage of my being a foreigner or b> drive away which is what happens here a LOT of the time. Because of that, I didn’t ask for money because well I don’t think he hit me on purpose and even if he didn’t obey a road sign, I also don’t obey road signs all the time and pretty much nobody in Taiwan does…so I guess I can just say that karma will take care of it. My parents will probably say I’ve been spending too much time in yoga class. Oh well! There’s one more thankful driver out there.

~ by globalciti on October 29, 2008.