How do you find this doggy? Isn’t he a cutie?
I took this picture…month of October last year. I got it I think from my old digicam pa. Good thing I had it uploaded in my lappie…I never intend to post it here actually, not until today.
Because he was killed by a speeding car this morning. He was owned by a 9 year old girl whom I got acquainted while me and hub had to wait for our service car to work every morning on weekdays, and she; together with her dad and their poor little dog for her school bus. They don’t speak english, we normally smiled each other and the only words I could greet them is “ni hao”?
He was a happy, playful and a friendly dog. This morning, he saw his fellow on the other side of the road, he crossed over and was hit!
I saw exactly what happened. The car which is 8 to 10 meters away ,if you were driving you would see if somebody or something is crossing, yet the driver didn’t slow down. The worst is, he never stopped or checked if he killed it or what!
The father silently and casually took the lifeless body of the poor dog, no reactions, no feeling of anger…while the girl cried so hard, she poured her anger by punching her dad…hugged him tightly as if she could squeeze away the pain, the loss and the grief.
I shook my head in disgust. Being on the street every morning, I get to observe the way of driving here. Motorist were not stopping nor put the gear in menor for pedestrians in crosswalk. For them, that is a pedestrian lane, cross at your own risk , you keep walking, I keep driving…time your steps because I’m not jiving. They don’t even observe a thing called ”right of way”.
I’m a driver myself too..I could say driving here is upsetting with potentially disastrous results. In fact, takot akong tumawid dito.
Stopping for pedestrian is the right thing to do but seems the wrong thing to do here. Oh well….Tsina!
