Smash

I was in a tuk-tuk and the driver was trying to enter the traffic from the side road where our office is. Something smashed into us as he inched his way through. The driver fell into the road and I had to run around the road to stop the tuk-tuk from careering away and hitting something else.

It was a moment of high drama in rush hour traffic, and luckily no serious damage except for some bruising on the driver, scrapes on the bodywork and a snapped speedometer cable. The image is post-incident as the driver insisted on continuing once he’d dusted himself off.

I was going for pizza with my friend Claire, who lives eleven hours’ drive away in Iringa. This was not a journey that she had made especially to eat pizza with me, yet it’s always great to cross paths on our various travels. She provided some good counsel and suggestions for reframing some draining issues in the office.