Saturday, May 30, 2009

new vs. old proton saga

4th accident as far as I could remember after 3 years free of accident, sigh...
It happened at MRR2, before the Ampang area, coming back from UTAR.
I only realized that it's accident when I heard the sound of shattered glass,
obviously it's my fault, as soon as I come out from my car after seeing the other front car's owner came out from his car, I automatically apologized to the car owner of new blue proton saga. He is young Malay man about 20 - 30 years old. Praise the Lord for he has let me go for my car was worst than his, only 3 white vertical scratch about 1-2 inches behind his car, still I've done wrong, just that no loss of money for repairing his car. Instead it would be loss of money to repair my old proton saga (it belongs to my dad's company).
After I asked, "Macam mana?" (How?) It's settled by his forgiveness saying, "Tak apa la" (Never mind) of seeing my car worst than his, obviously (new vs. old proton saga), the new one is better. Then he drove on. I was relieved after that, though I hope he could punish me or asking me to pay for his car. Well, God is great, this owner was the only one who let me go when I'm wrong. It reminds me of what I did, few years ago, while I'm still driving the yellow proton Juara, there was once in the morning, it was jammed, out of sudden, my car was banged from behind, It was a red old proton saga (something like what I'm driving now, only different is the colour). Peeping through the rear mirror, I saw that car was o.k. and I guessed mine was alright also. Therefore, I didn't stop my car and let him go, just like that (didn't even bother to get down of my car, because I was rushing to school, obviously he is rushing too, but he went the other way to somewhere after that, we are not going to the same destination).
only able to pick up these (as shown on the photo on top) after the accident, to avoid jam (because I stopped at the most right lane (where car moves fastest), some smaller shattered glass of the left front light were left on the road. Then, I went back, I could hear the pulling sound of front plastic (don't know what it calls, it's attached together with the proton logo), as it dropped down slanting about 45 degree. while I was driving back to my dad's shop. After detaching the front plastic and placed it inside the car. Then I went back home, receive a lot of comments from my dear sisters.

"You are clumsy!", "See, again, accident!", "You are not careful enough!", "You are not a good driver!", "Rush, rush again. Drive so fast for what, where are you rushing to?", "Never change for good, after so many accidents still the same", "Still dare to say wanna drive manual gear car (another car, red proton wira, the only car available for me)?" (this old proton saga was changed from manual to automatic gear)

Then I replied, "What to do? It's not that I purposely bang people's car." (thinking back, I think it's either I was doing something else or I was dreaming, that I forgotten to stop, or did I accidentally stepped on the accelerator?) I have no idea, what was wrong, I knew I was wrong, but I couldn't find the cause. 

Reminds me of my sister's friend who recently bang on people's car, but hers was worst. At the same time, they were gossiping about my clumsyness, always like rushing to somewhere (last weekend).

I shouldn't take God for granted, reminds me of what was advised by people around me. Should pray for mercy /safety journey every single drive. Say NO to multitasking while driving!

big laughs after all the mess...still waiting for my dad's response, whether he want to repair the old blue proton saga. Praying hard for no rain, so it wouldn't spoilt the light bulb, while waiting for the car to be repaired on monday.

seems like I have to drive the manual gear car for Monday's examination, more preparation to do...




2 comments:

Kath said...

Careful!!! You're safe and that's ok adi... Thank God the guy let you go.. and he was ok. :)

Lai Tee @ Grace said...

Ya, really thank God for this! Now, joining the manual drivers...(not easy le)

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