Looking to Avoid Accidents
Posted on 02. Feb, 2010 by Admin in Uncategorized
Next time you take a trip out your front door keep your self focused. Most of the time we don’t think about what is going on around us, but just for fun why not try looking for any possible hazards on and around a trip to the supermarket?
As you back out your driveway you go carefully and slowly checking for any pedestrians and hoping there won’t be a toddler out there where you can’t see him.
Moving down the road you brake in plenty of time at the amber light and are relieved that the guy behind you managed to stop without hitting your bumper. Your brake lights are working aren’t they?
You pass by the street where they are putting up that new office block. You can’t see much though as a high fence is all around it- Nothing happening there.
While stopped at another set of lights you look at the guy cleaning windows on another office block. He is safely harnessed to his platform, but what about that bucket? And the wiper he is holding? Let’s hope he doesn’t kick the bucket on that old lady walking underneath.
You turn carefully into the supermarket car park and just miss the 7 year old who is darting across in front of his mother, catching your breath just in time to notice the car reversing out in front of you.
You hurry across the car park just managing to grab hold of a wayward trolley for support as you slip on a painted car parking line, and doge past the kids leaping in and out of the sliding doors.
It’s been raining a little earlier and the entrance way is still a bit muddy, but someone is busy mopping the floor and has her sign out telling you “Caution Wet Floor”. You begin your shopping.
As you pass into the next aisle you are shocked by a pain in your ankle and scowl at the child who just rammed you with the trolley while her mother apologizes and tells you her daughter is just learning to ‘help’.
You move on and quietly pick up the apple that is rolling across the floor of the fruit and vegetable aisle. Should you put it back with the other apples or…?
Two aisles along and you see a young woman accidentally drop a glass jar of pickles. She looks embarrassed and moves quickly out of the aisle. As you maneuver your way into the next aisle you call up to the worker hauling down boxes from the top of a ladder and let him know about the pickles.
At the checkout you notice that the conveyer belt keeps stopping and gently tell the little girl at the end to stop trying to put her lollipop stick into the end of it. Her mother scowls at you and grabs the lollipop away.
With the sound of the little girl’s screams still behind you, you find your way back to your car. You check carefully for cars and kids as you back out and head for home.
Safely home you grab the four bags of groceries and begin to climb the stairs…
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