It felt like "another day in US" when my roommate, Keshab, offered me to join him to Walmart ( a shopping center) together with another friend of ours. After we did shopping, the rain poured quite hard. We run to car with our stuffs and was ready to go home. I wasn't quite sure what really happened when I felt a hard hit in the body of the car. I was shocked that there was a car that hit our car. in the moment of silent, I was trying to get back my life and thinking what was happening as my body is thrown a bit to the end of the seat. I watched from the rare window that there was this lady who got out of the car and checked the condition of her car, to me the car was obviously damaged from what I have seen, the right front lamp of her car was damaged badly. I was so sure that she would get really mad at Keshab, judging from her gesture. But what happened afterward really changed my assumption: she asked how we are. she asked, "are you okay?" repeatedly. Keshab, who thought that there wasn't something wrong with his car said that everyone in his car is secured and so was his car.
What I was trying to reflect in this short writing is that what I always experience in my country, the people are very difficult to say sorry, or merely admit their mistakes when driving. They like to argue and blame the other driver as the causes of the accident. Sadly, they even want to stand their arguments no matter how. The disputed people are eager to escalate the situation either verbally or physically, how sad. of course, I don't wanna judge all people in my country equally in this situation.
So, when facing such unexpected situation, especially accident in the road, it is highly expected that both parties should see the problem in the name of humanity. We can discuss about anything happen calmly after making sure that there are not injured people in the crash. May this experience teach me how to behave in many critical situation.
Mount Pleasant, Michigan,
Dec 24, 2014.
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