zenn bites...

a couple of days ago, the bus i was on took a wrong turn. uh huh. and if that's not strange enough, the bus driver proceeded to scrape the side of his vehicle against the temporary wall of a construction site. the sound of metal on metal was added to all the head-shaking "tsk tsks" and the cries of "aiyo!" that the white-knuckled-hands-gripping-onto-poles-for-dear-life aunties on board were making.

finally figuring out that he wasn't gonna be able to continue on this adventurous route safely, the driver decided to go back the narrow way he came in. that involved a skillful 6-point-turn, and sadly, he wasn't all that competent.

he backed the bus into one of those plastic road barriers, all blase about knocking it over. he inched forward a tad after that, then in reverse gear for a second time, backed into yet another barrier. it was as if he was playing the game "let's see how many barricades i can bang down with my hugeass bus while traumatizing the wild-eyed people onboard".

very fun stuff indeed.

when he finally got outta there, he went on his merry way rather quickly, as if to make up for lost time and to live up to his "express bus" title. the bus ride continued rather boringly thereafter.

it all happened as though in slow-mo, and i could totally see what was coming up ahead. i started cringing way before he even scraped the side of the bus coz it was just an accident waiting to happen. i was muttering "nonono" as he inched his way back into the barrier.

the whole incident was more interesting than scary, seeing that i didn't feel like my life was in much danger except for that one moment when he was backing out to start his 10-point-turn and there was no way he could have seen on-coming traffic round the bend, and a car could have smashed right into us and that's not comforting seeing that i was seated near the rear.

but that only happens in movies. or at least, i was lucky that day.

humans are rather interesting creatures and after the intitial shock and the nail-biting moments when the driver was trying to get out of his sticky situation, we all settled back comfortably, listening to our ipods, reading our books, like it's just another walk in the park. but then again, i hardly expect anyone to hyperventilate over this rather minor happening.

in another road incident *newscaster voice* the driver of SDF 7575 H should burn in hell for talking on the phone while driving and almost crashing into my car when he swerved out of an adjacent lane without checking the roads. he didn't even wave an apology!!! the asshole should so get his licence revoked. hrmph.