Life

We were at a session earlier this week and were waiting for an important speaker who was running late. This is not uncommon given the traffic at times. She arrived about 10 minutes late, apologised and explained she had been part of a terrible accident. She then proceeded to deliver her presentation in a very professional manner and left. We found out later that she was in her car and came to a roundabout so she stopped suddenly as the car in front had done so. The road laws are not as tough as they are at home. A truck carting steel pipes was following behind her. It braked suddenly and the loose piles flew forward over the top of the roof of her small car through the back window of the vehicle in front of her and killed the occupant in the car in front of her. While I have come to love the driving here as I think it must be a bit like what Sam gets out of flying choppers, constantly alert, a very sensory experience it probably pays to stay off the roads as much as you can.