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Mythical wife, the girls and I went to the Asian market the other day.\u00a0 When we were on our way out, #1 got a little ahead of us, and began crossing the street on her own.\u00a0 Mythical wife managed to get her attention to stop and come back and that she knows the rule that, hands held when in the parking lot.\u00a0 No sooner than she got a hold of her hand, a Lexus SUV came flying into our periphery, before coming to a stop, maybe 2-3 feet away from mythical wife and #1; but adjacent to them.<\/span><\/p>\n Had both of them been 2-3 further into the crosswalk, they would have been hit and run over, entirely.\u00a0 Me yelling out HEY to the reckless driver wouldn\u2019t have done anything to stop them.<\/span><\/p>\n Naturally, justifying the stereotype of being some of the most unsafe drivers in the world, it was an older Korean woman, maybe a few years younger than my mom, who was driving the car.\u00a0 She looked up at us with shock and concern in her face, pantomiming bowing her head in apology at her neglectful driving, and I gave her a stare that I wish could induce death, for the danger she potentially could have put my family in because she was probably too busy checking fucking KakaoTalk on her fucking phone instead of paying attention to the road in one of the most attention-requiring zones there could be, directly in front of a grocery store.<\/span><\/p>\n Fortunately, nobody was hurt, and ironically it was a good lesson for my kids to learn at the very real dangers of parking lots, since up to this point they bemoaned having to hold a grown-up\u2019s hand every now and then, and wanted to flex moar independence that only kids of this age can.<\/span><\/p>\n It wasn\u2019t really until we were driving home did it really start to sink in to me at just how fortunate we were that nothing happened.\u00a0 Like I said, #1 was extremely close to getting hit by a car, and frankly I don\u2019t know how I\u2019d have reacted if that actually did happen.\u00a0 More than likely I\u2019d have wanted to kill the ajumma behind the wheel who was responsible for it, but I was playing the scene in my head where I struggled to curse and scream at someone in my elementary-level Korean.<\/span><\/p>\n I\u2019ve seen my child in hospital care and with tubes and all sorts of apparatuses attached to them.\u00a0 I am in no rush to ever have see such again, and I don\u2019t know how I\u2019d handle it if I had to, against all of our wills.<\/span><\/p>\n Needless to say, I was quite rattled by the whole situation, and by the time I got home, I had decided it was probably for the best not leave the house any more for the day.\u00a0 No matter how much we try to protect our children from the very real dangers of the world, it\u2019s like at any given point, it\u2019s always just that close, at any given moment.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Mythical wife, the girls and I went to the Asian market the other day.\u00a0 When we were on our way out, #1 got a little ahead of us, and began crossing the street on her own.\u00a0 Mythical wife managed to get her attention to stop and come back and that she knows the rule that, … Continue reading Dad Brog (#163): rattled<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[193,192,83,105,10,146],"class_list":["post-51100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-dad","tag-kids","tag-observations","tag-rage","tag-traffic","tag-triggered"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51100"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51102,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51100\/revisions\/51102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}