Taxi Attack!

This morning I had my first real taxi attack.

On my regular route to work, I got to an intersection to cross, looked right, looked left, looked right again, and seeing nothing, I stepped out. Immediately a taxi came out of nowhere on my left and laid into his horn. I looked right at him, realized I was directly in his path, and jumped back to the side of the street that I had come from. My heart was pounding! I was still shaking a bit when I got to work. By the evening when it was time to walk home, I was fine though. I guess I need to look longer and harder in both directions at the same time.

Whoever came up with the plan in the U.S. that pedestrians have the right of way was a brilliant person. I wish they lived here when they were making up the rules.

Dave