Close Calls

A co-worker tells me about her close call while driving to work. Someone tried to switch lanes on I-5 lane but she was already there. Forced her off the road onto the shoulder, then over compensating to return to the road and nearly overturning. You just never know. You can never relax and assume that all is well because it can all change in a literal instant. Not even a short drive to work is without risk.

Then she tells me how the prior evening, her teenage daughter was almost struck by a lift truck at work. Conditions being what they are this time of year .... everyone being pushed for more production and people in jobs they don't usually do and sometimes with machines (like lift trucks) that they are not accustomed to handling, you have to be even more on high alert at work then on the highway. It's dangerous to be walking around and to change direction without first stopping and looking.