falling down

Yesterday was an exceptional day. Nothing went wrong. All day. I headed to Aldi, Officeworks, Woolies and Westfield with a happy little boy and all was perfect. The girl was in kindy for the day and I planned to do everything I needed to do with one child. I succeeded.

We got home and it was later in the afternoon and the boy went to sleep late. That meant we would undoubtedly be picking the girl up from kindy later than usual. So we ventured off, around 4.15pm.

On the way home, we hit the afternoon rush hour traffic. I had forgotten how busy it was to go out at this time, normally, I'm a weekday tripper and traffic seems to move smoothly. So we're stuck, the girl is hungry and tired after a long day and starts whinging and kicking the back of my chair. Hard. But I was determined for my day to stay positive, happy and awesome. The boy was good, playing with keys and happy as larry.

Then I look up, in my revision mirror, here's a man, swearing out loud and trying to get around me, where I don't know. He almost hit me up the arse. I had about 1000 cars in front of me and every lane was chockers. So I sort of wondered what he was trying to achieve. I had to smile in a way and just send him lots of calming spiritual vibes. He was visibly so stressed out. He was swearing, banging the steering wheel and reminded me of Michael Douglas in "Falling Down" (hence the picture I posted) - who has seen that movie? How one day can go horribly wrong! I was hoping this dude didn't pull out some shotgun and start shooting everyone. He was so bloody angry, I could only imagine what sort of day he'd had. He was in business attire. I started to tune in to what may have happened to him. Mary, my spirit guide gave me no answers, she just giggled at me for asking.

So he'd been fired, his computer crashed so he couldn't complete that report his boss so urgently needed that afternoon or his little boy or girl was sick and he needed to get to the day care centre, fast, because Mum was still in the city, working her arse off. He followed me off the main road and was up my arse, the whole way, I couldn't go any faster so I pulled to the side of the road and let him fly by and turn his street corner practically sideways.

Poor dude, I felt empathy for him for just a moment, whatever he was going through...