Breath of freshness........

Something always comes up when you think thinks are finally brightening up. I was getting comfortable in my driving job and somehow I felt I was managing to juggle my work and academic life. Things started unravelling around the edges last Friday when I was involved in a "could have been fatal" road accident on my way from work. We had very bad weather with a massive snowfall and it was a terrible day at work to say the least. I was driving home and when turning right less than a mile to my flat I hit an icy patch and the car just slid and wouldn't stop. Somehow I managed to go between two steel bollards and stop inches away from a corner shop entrance. I know you have heard people say they saw their whole life flash in front of their eyes, well believe me it can never be truer than that. A thousand and one thoughts crossed my mind, with thoughts flirting from the past into the future all in a split second, I was really shook up to say the least and only divine intervention saved me from what could have been an even worse event. Only one song kept playing over and over in my mind and that's Tuku's Raki don't even know why that particular song but I guess it was more appropriate to my situation.

As if that was not enough I was working on Saturday night as well and the roads were even more dangerous than the previous night because the snow had iced. Now that I look back on the events of that day I had a nagging feeling about the day. I almost phoned one of my friends I work with to ask him to cover the shift for me but I didn't. I was a little bit late for work that day because there was a rugby game at Pittodrie stadium and exchanged a few words with one of the managers (another bad sign I guess). The first couple of runs were ok even though the roads were bad but things got worse when I had to make a delivery but went to the wrong address (same street name but miles away from actual address) and at this point I was ready to call it a day. I actually joked with the duty manager when I went back to the shop that I was ready for early retirement and really wanted to leave but he convinced me just to stay on since I was finishing at midnight anyway. I then went out to make 3 deliveries which would probably have been my last deliveries of the night and on my way from dropping off the first one that's when the second accident in as many days happened. I was going over a steep incline and was nearly at the top when the car just stopped pulling and the wheels started rolling. I managed to pull the handbrake up but when I tried to move off again the car just started rolling backwards and towards a wall to my right. The back of the car finally hit the wall and I just stopped the car and radioed the shop to let them know. The owner's daughter came with some salt and managed to retrieve the car and we drove back to the shop and I cashed in and left for the week.

Having said that I now start hearing stuff from the people I work with. I met one of my colleagues today and he was telling me they are going to charge me £500 for the damage to the car and I'm like WTF. I don't even make that much a month and someone is talking such sh*t. They never have come across one angry black man who has worked so hard for his cash and someone thinks they can just do whatever they want with his paper. I'm just so ready to raise hell for them if they decide to go down that road and I see myself taking someone to court or even making a racial discrimination case. I am going to work tomorrow evening and I am even ready to walk out if it boils down to that.

I guess this has got to be the shittiest week for me in a while as far as work and studying is concerned. It wouldn't be right for me not to mention my new friend of a few days. She is somewhere on the other side of the world and I guess got to admit we just clicked. We have chatted online for hours on end and at times I just don't want to go to sleep at all and I find it so easy to talk to her. We talk about everything and nothing at all and time just flies when we chatting, thank you TFZ for being a breath of fresh air into my life. As I always say everything happens for a reason even though we really cannot understand why. Probably this just means my time at the Pizza place is up and I have to be somewhere else, there must be some other lesson I have to learn some place else, someone else's life to touch. I am ready to move on, I have learnt my lessons and I have improved my driving and so if this is the way I have to go then I am ready to face my fate.

I have ranted enough for one week and I will be updating you soon on how it goes tomorrow at work. I am afraid I am running out of wise words to leave with you but I shall not disappoint. This is THZ's favourite, "I try not to worry about tomorrow for tomorrow will worry about itself-Allan". Signing out yours truly, ME...