The worst sound

Well, for one reason or another, well, one reason really, being that we didn't have the "right" kind of butter for me to make cookies, although I wanted to make them on Tuesday, I won't be making them until tomorrow.

It's a bit of a story and a bit of one of those, "tomorrow" and then when tomorrow comes it's another "tomorrow" deals.

In any case, we took a walk this evening to go to the bakery Le Poire to get cinnamon rolls with are my new favorite and which I can't seem to get enough of.

On the way back, we were going to pick up some of the "right" butter from a store that is on the way, which normally doesn't carry it but said the other day to come back in a couple of days and they would have it.

Well... just 20 steps or so from getting to the store, a car started up next to us and took off pell mell down the street.

This is no small feat. The streets are narrow, pock marked, full of people walking and bicycles and scooters and cars parked in all sorts of ways on either side.

And this guy just punched it! I've never seen/heard anyone go that fast down one of these small side streets.

Lo and behold, he gets one intersection down, at that point not even a whole block, and we hear the squeal of tires and the crunch of metal on metal.

This sound to me is horrifying and truly one of the very worst sounds there is.

Though a car serves some extremely useful purposes, it is also a weapon, and a loaded one at that. There is never a safety switch with a car, it is always on and ready to fire. And you never know what will be in that line of fire. It could be you.

So we heard the sound of that racing car hitting at least one other car, weather it was moving or parked we aren't sure.

People started coming out onto the street to see what had happened, and we could see a small group form around where the accident happened.

I didn't hear any yelling or shouting, so insha'Allah no one was hurt except maybe the driver.

I don't know if the police were called or what will happen. I don't know what they do with traffic offenders here. Will he have his license taken away or suspended? Will it really make a difference to this guy, in this country where you can buy your way out of almost anything?

Hubby went into the little corner store to get the butter and came back out, and we watched a few seconds more down the street where the accident was before heading back home.

And all the way home I felt slightly disquieted wondering what happened and if anyone was hurt. Even if this driver was a jerk and shouldn't have been driving so dangerously fast, I still don't like to think about anyone being harmed.



Better news being, I now have the correct butter and come hell or high water, I'M MAKING CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIES TOMORROW!!!

lol

Sometimes it really does take a herculean effort just to get the simplest thing done here.

Love it here all the same though.