Twice this week I’ve gone out to get the Small Child from school only to be confronted by horrible car accidents. Is it a full moon? Has half of Brisbane gone off their meds? Or is there some sort of comphrehensive and co-ordinated attack against car insurers going on and we didn’t get a copy of the memo?
Whatever it is I am so tired of driving along (hypervigilantly) minding my own business only to be confronted by mashed up cars. Today wasn’t as bad as the incident on Monday but still… just going to get the Small Child from school shouldn’t be emotionally traumatizing. I got to the top of the street to turn onto Belmont Rd and first thing I noticed was four tow truck drivers (fucking vultures) hanging around picking over the bones of a white Commodore station wagon that had somehow t-boned into a silver Rav4. I tried to just ignore it, I deliberately tried not to look for the drivers to see if they were okay and I drove around it…..
… only to go around the corner onto Meadowlands Road and glance down onto the Gateway. Indeed it was hard not to as there were more flashing lights down there than you could poke a stick at. There were police and ambulance on the scene (which I had heard about an hour ago from our backyard where my cousin is doing the concrete) and they were attempting to sort out what looked like two semi-trailers and about four vehicles that had somehow come to grief. I didn’t look too close. I don’t want to know how it happened. I don’t want to be confronted by accidents and cars smashed together EVERY TIME I LEAVE THE DAMN HOUSE!
Maybe I shouldn’t be living in the city. It’s just too bloddy stressful… and living within earshot of a highway is probably not helping at all. Every time I hear the trucks going hard on their compression brakes, or the squeal of tyres or a car backfiring or the loud bang from a tyre blowing out… I cringe waiting to hear the sounds of crunching metal. And then there’s the eventually wailing of the emergency services vehicles sirens.
I’m finding myself being frightened / upset / alarmed / pissed off / scared / and basically assaulted by these horrible accidents and idiot traffice incidents almost every day… and it feels like it’s getting worse not better. 🙁