Wednesday, March 18, 2009

Of spare tires and accidents

Last night it was raining while I was driving home, gee whiz, how many times did I have to keep rubbing my eyes because I couldn't see the road ahead of me! It was dark, and the asphalt was black, too. Little specks of rain kept on refracting the light in front of me blurring my vision. When will they finish all these road works? Hopefully before the law of averages catch up on me.

I was having coffee at the usual gas station when a screeching sound, then a blunt thud came from the highway. A wayward truck slammed onto a concrete barrier knocking it to the other side of the highway to oncoming traffic. A pick up braked hard to avoid it, but it got hit by the flying barrier anyway. The sudden stop then caused the car behind it to slam into it before it got waylaid onto the other lane. And while this was happening, the truck finally came to a stop a few meters away, abruptly halted by a larger and more solid barrier. No one seemed to be hurt, save maybe for some egos.

It's been more than 6 years since I've been traversing this highway to and from work, and so far, have been lucky to avoid such situations. Hope this streak continues...

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So now traffic has slowed to a crawl on both sides of the highway. Not that these 3 vehicles were blocking any passages, just the usual habit of other drivers to slow down and gawk at what happened, coming to conclusions and coming up with their own theories on how this could have been avoided. The frantic efforts of the highway patrol to wave them on is futile to say the least, and the mini-scene that the drivers of the involved vehicles were making is definitely not helping speed things up.

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I need a spare tire. The one I have wiggles when driven, thus it is considerable unsafe to drive it on long distances. Well actually, all I need is a rim but lucky me, the size of the tires means that the rims I have to get is not that easy to find, and quite expensive as well.

I've been asking around for rims of the same size but so far, no luck on finding one that can be bought by piece. I need to find one soon, in less than two weeks a bunch of us are going to Bicolandia and so the car has to be safe and ready by then. I don't want another replay of what happened on the SCTEX at the start of the year.

3 comments:

etlyanna said...

naku bumili ka na nga ng new set of tires... mahirap na...

Unknown said...

Yup, ethel is right. Hindi ba dapat office mo magbabayad for car repairs, etc.? Glad to know you're okay at hindi kasali sa aksidente. =)

Chipper said...

onga e... naghahanap na nga ng mananakawan! hahaha!