Lately I have been losing my focus ever so slightly on the roads. At 32, I’ve been driving for pretty much half of my life. I grew up in Qualicum Beach and if you have ever been there, there isn’t a lot of traffic to worry about. The next biggest city I drove in until I move down to Victoria was Nanaimo. But I would only ever drive through it.

Since living in Victoria I haven’t had many close calls on the road. The one accident I was in took place in a cab about 8 years ago. I had another close call but was lucky to escape when another driver ran a red light just as we were entering the intersection. I should add that I slowly have run into two peoples rear bumpers. But those happened almost ten years ago.

But as I said, lately I’ve been losing my focus on the road and having more close calls. I’m really starting to think I need to search for Victoria driving schools and get some lessons. A few months back I just got back from Argentina and hadn’t driven in a couple months. I forget to should check and almost side swiped someone.

Then just yesterday I was at an intersection waiting for the light to go green. There was a car to my left waiting to turn left. Before either light went green I heard Ambulance sirens. I wanted to get out of the way and hear where they were coming from. So when the car to my left started to move and enter the intersection, I crept out into the intersection to see where the ambulance was coming from. The light was red though and the cars on the other side had an advanced green. So as I slowly creeping through the intersection worried about the ambulance, my light was red. I was pretty much half way though when I realized. Thankfully the car turning left from the other side was worried about the ambulance too and hadn’t turned. They then noticed me half way though the intersection and let me go.

When I noticed the light was red I felt so embarrassed and damn lucky that the other car noticed this and we didn’t have a collision. There’s been an angel looking out for me these days and I almost feel like a cat with 9 lives on the road with some of these close calls. I am really worried that something bad is going to happen and I’ll need to visit my client Westshore Driving School for some lessons and to get me paying attention on the road again.