After having a fun filled morning with my two young sons, we were singing as we drove home. We went and made lego, we painted pumpkins. One is two and the world is his oyster, such a great many years ahead of him. My four year old, adventurous and full of questions. His eyes amazed at the world. I decided to cut across the city using Lauzon parkway. Still singing, we stopped as the light ahead turned red. Traffic the opposing way, went. It was beautiful this fall afternoon. Our light turned green, and I glanced, half a second into my mirror, as we clearly had the right of way. I don't know what was so important in your black four door car. Some funny lol text message, or maybe that makeup you needed to do, or you just had to have that conversation with your girlfriend. I am not sure. As you clearly blew through a confirmed red light. I am not sure, man or woman driving. What was so important to you. Yet that half a second in your life of not taking the time nor care to stop, would have made a huge difference in mine. You would have hit us on the drivers side, hard enough to potentially injure, or kill, a wide eyed four year old boy. Chances are, you would have changed the life of the two year old too. You may have even killed me, to them I am their whole world. I warn you, as I am not ready to pick out casket colours or spend hours in hospital watching them fight for their lives. They will fight, my boys are fighters. All it takes, is half a second, maybe less, to let some poor decision on your part, devastate someone else's life. I assure you.
Thank you though, because the half a second I took to look in my rear view mirror and smile at their fits of giggles from my backseat may have saved their lives from you. So enjoy this fall afternoon, and be aware of your choices.