Impatience can be a life changer in many ways, whether the stress hurts you or your actions do harm to someone else. The weather had just changed, from nice fall like conditions to very cold and rainy, the cyclist lay immobile in the middle of a mini roundabout, just been hit by an impatient Volvo trying to make eight feet seem like twelve feet. Several people had stopped and were trying to make the guy more comfortable, on the cold, hard asphalt while everyone waited for the ambulance. One day car drivers will understand that cyclists and pedestrians have the right of way, and the consequences of ignoring that fact will have a severe impact on several lives. The ambulance took about twenty minutes to arrive and the other drivers coming from three different directions, had to navigate the situation, finally someone had the common sense to park their car perpendicular to the scene to stop the guy on the bike from getting his head run over. There was approximately two hundred cars backed up on multiple roads, and you could feel the impatience rising to a crescendo, until, they finally saw the guy on the bicycle, laying helpless in the road, freezing cold and looking hurt pretty bad. One of the onlooker's standing on the corner asked me if someone had made the emergency call and I confirmed it had been taken care of, he stared at the guy who was no longer on his bicycle, wrapped in a couple of jackets, on the ground, and said ' that's a bad start to the day, right there ' He flipped his collar up, against the cold, and went on with his day.
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