Running scare

We had a brief but horrifying encounter while on the road this morning, as a twenty-somethingish man dashed out between two parked vans and right across the path of our car, just a meter away. Barely flinching, he raced on across the street and disappeared around a corner.

I was so shocked that I couldn't even find the horn on the steering wheel. Had I been traveling any faster, our car would have slammed into his legs. J and I just sat motionless in the car for a few more seconds, stunned like two kangaroos in the headlamps.

Nothing wakes you up faster in the morning than a close call.