Have you ever had a near death experience?
I hadn't until today.
Okay, not really near death, but I was in a situation where someone could have easily died.
I took an early lunch today because the servers in work were down and I needed to pick up the suit that I bought for my brothers wedding next week (I'm groomsman). I had a nice large Bacon Double Cheesburger meal in BK at the top of Grafton street, alone cause Steve (Superfurrier) was giving grinds at the time, and then collected my suit.
I was walking back with no iPod on cause I couldn't find it this morning when leaving the house. As I marched up Harcourt street I got quite a shock. I was crossing a side road there about half way up on the left pavement when some woman in what looked like a Ford Escort estate (big silver thing) came out of nowhere up the side street (cul-de-sac with a few offices on it) and cut straight accross me, nearly hitting me. She stopped with the front of her car sticking half way out into the road and her back wheels about at the stop line. She looked at me with her evil look and frizzy red hair as if I had said she had a fat ass. I noticed that as soon as she looked at me her face nearly turned white in an instant, and she was looking away, down now, behind me. I was standing with my thighs nearly touching the front drivers door of her car.
I then suddenly realised why she had paled at as I heard an unholy screeching noise and turned around to see a LUAS barrelling down the road with it's brakes on full. I wasn't actually in the way of it and so didn't have to move, but it was a different story for the womans car. The tram nearly ripped the front of her car off, the front of her car was knocked away from me. The bonnet mangled upwards and smashed through one of the side windows of the LUAS as it passed.
The LUAS came to a halt about 15-20 metres away from where it first hit the car and I could see the shock on the faces of the people inside the tram, not knowing what was going on. The womans car was now facing nearly towards the Garda station on Harcourt street and she was almost silent inside. She wasn't hurt (I don't think), cause only the front of her car was hit, but shocked. I helped her out and sat her down and then some of her work colleages came out and I left. The emergency services were there when I left. The LUAS was hardly even damaged, just the bottom panel on the front was bent downwards and the broken window I think.
I can't help thinking, if I hadn't walked aimlessly across that road, causing her to stop, she would probably have been hit straight on the drivers door and her car been pushed halfway up the street. She may have lived, she may have died, but I would never know.
Anyway, scared the shit out of me.
Kev
Okay, not really near death, but I was in a situation where someone could have easily died.
I took an early lunch today because the servers in work were down and I needed to pick up the suit that I bought for my brothers wedding next week (I'm groomsman). I had a nice large Bacon Double Cheesburger meal in BK at the top of Grafton street, alone cause Steve (Superfurrier) was giving grinds at the time, and then collected my suit.
I was walking back with no iPod on cause I couldn't find it this morning when leaving the house. As I marched up Harcourt street I got quite a shock. I was crossing a side road there about half way up on the left pavement when some woman in what looked like a Ford Escort estate (big silver thing) came out of nowhere up the side street (cul-de-sac with a few offices on it) and cut straight accross me, nearly hitting me. She stopped with the front of her car sticking half way out into the road and her back wheels about at the stop line. She looked at me with her evil look and frizzy red hair as if I had said she had a fat ass. I noticed that as soon as she looked at me her face nearly turned white in an instant, and she was looking away, down now, behind me. I was standing with my thighs nearly touching the front drivers door of her car.
I then suddenly realised why she had paled at as I heard an unholy screeching noise and turned around to see a LUAS barrelling down the road with it's brakes on full. I wasn't actually in the way of it and so didn't have to move, but it was a different story for the womans car. The tram nearly ripped the front of her car off, the front of her car was knocked away from me. The bonnet mangled upwards and smashed through one of the side windows of the LUAS as it passed.
The LUAS came to a halt about 15-20 metres away from where it first hit the car and I could see the shock on the faces of the people inside the tram, not knowing what was going on. The womans car was now facing nearly towards the Garda station on Harcourt street and she was almost silent inside. She wasn't hurt (I don't think), cause only the front of her car was hit, but shocked. I helped her out and sat her down and then some of her work colleages came out and I left. The emergency services were there when I left. The LUAS was hardly even damaged, just the bottom panel on the front was bent downwards and the broken window I think.
I can't help thinking, if I hadn't walked aimlessly across that road, causing her to stop, she would probably have been hit straight on the drivers door and her car been pushed halfway up the street. She may have lived, she may have died, but I would never know.
Anyway, scared the shit out of me.
Kev
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