the bad run continues
Thursday, August 11, 2005
ok..im just going thru a bad phase...things cudnt get worse...
-i leave w. lafayette at 7 am for Dallas.
-in between the trip to chicago i realise i have left my passport at home. ( it is my only legal identification at US airports). I get frantic and start to think of various excuses to tell to the ticketing agent at Midway, the airport from where im departing.
- i reach o'hare and have to take the shuttle to midway airport.
-"Omega Shuttle", tht name will remain etched in my memory for a long time. Ok heres the story...its raining and the roads are slightly wet. i pay the woman who was supposed to take me to MDW airport...get in the van (im the only passenger)..and she takes off...two mins into the ride she has to go down a ramp to merge with traffic...she must be doing 50..while she is turning i can feel the backend of the van skid to one side...i get the flash in my head of wht is about to come...the lady driver gives out a scream and tries to counter steer the skid while braking..tht was it...the van lost control and went screaming into the the median where big ass concrete pots are there to break the skid. They do and all the while send me crashing into the van door (just missing the window), lady flies about the van before settling in front of me and all airbags in tha van are deployed. Luckily by some miracle niether of us were hurt enough to be even bleeding but we were both shaken up pretty bad. I got away with a rather large and painful bump on my head.
Paramedics show up and ask me if im fine and if i wanna go to the hospital..i decline and they take my signature (for legal reasons) and then the lady driver pays me back the money and im driven back to the terminal in a police car...and i again take an Omega shuttle (free of chaarge this time) and im on my way to Midway. I must mention tht Chicago-ites(?!) have no sense of driving..i saw a couple of more accidents happening right in front of my eyes while i was being driven to the Midway airport.
At midway i just show my UAE drivers lic. in place of an ID, somehow get away with it and even get to board an earlier flight to Dallas than expected..so in the end there was some balance.
Funny Sidenote: I checked my laptop and camera bag after the accident to check if they were fine before tending to the large bump on my head. I must be crazy...
Just chilled the rest of the day in Dallas at my uncles place...
Tariq: U have now officially been removed from the post of the only person in the world who has tried to kill me in a car accident.
at 22:51
omg! tht must've been bad! Thank God ur ok! but hey..luk at the bright side..u get ur money bac, u get to sit in a police car and u get to get to the airport free!:D
Papa says that he had a feeling you were gonna have an accident.. Telepathic parents rule.
Glad you're ok now.
I told you not to say that things couldn't get worse, but would you listen? Nooooooooooooooooooooo! Look on the bright side though, you got se see someone bounce around a car, and air bags in action!
Also, telepathic parents rule, until they telepathise that you're going to do some nonsense and thwart you in the process!
Tariq tried to kill you? Cool! You know what you should do to let off some steam? Get into a car and hunt some goats!