Tampon truck

About 6.30 this morning, something occured. That's a bit early for anything to happen I hear you say...

Well it's not too early to get hit by a pink truck on your scooter. Yep. I got hit. By a stupid pink tampon truck as he crossed two lanes. He didn't look at all - just turned into me. I ran into the side of the truck. Lucky for me I was going very slowly and had some time to slam on my brakes, he was also turning very slowly. I almost thought for a second that I was going to come out of it without getting hit, but he continued to turn, not seeing me, until he hit me. I'm not even sure he realised he hit me until he heard the bang, as he made his left hand turn. My bike wasn't even knocked over and I didn't fall off. My shoulder slammed into the side of the stupid pink truck.

I was ok, the bike is undamaged. I hope there is a big dent in his truck though, coz the stupid jerk drove off then slowed down and then drove off again. Meanwhile a guy waiting in a truck at the lights saw the whole thing, wound down his window and called out to me. He said that guy who hit me didn't even look. He asked if I was ok. I seemed to be alright, nothing was hurting and the bike appeared to fine... So I continued to ride to work.

Anway now at work I had a bit of a de-brief session with my boss - he's rad. He told me a story about an accident he had on a motorbike when he first moved to sydney. He said he was unconcious, broken knee caps and all and spent two weeks in hospital after a lady ran head first into him. I'm thinking, I've been in hospital before - i know how shit that is but this is one hospital story I hope I never have. He said they pumped him with opiates when he was unconcious to help him with the pain, which turned out to be really bad becasue at the time, he just got back from overseas where he'd been using a lot of opium and he was trying hard to get off the stuff.

At first I thought it's bad enough, as a woman, I have to get periods, now a tampon truck hits me when I'm on my scooter. But after the good sharing sesh with my boss I felt much better about my close run in with the pink tampon truck.