Two nights ago, on my way home from the gym (yes, the couch potato does go to the gym but only once in a blue moon), I was driving with my stereo blasting & adrenaline pumping when I casually glanced at my left side mirror and this thought came across my mind: OH SHIT! – I have forgotten to push my mirror outwards before leaving the parking lot.
Why is it that every time I wish for the traffic lights to turn green, they won’t? And now that I desperately need the car to be in a stationary position, the light mockingly turns green just when I was about to stop, as if to jest me.
Since the traffic wasn’t too smooth that night, I decided to try my luck and stretch my left arm out of the window to push it, with my right foot slightly on the brakes (in case you are wondering, yes, the car was still in motion, slow motion, that is). If I was shorter, my guess would be that I have no other option but to pull over next to the curb to adjust the mirror after moving my a** either to the passenger’s seat or the handbrake area, depending on my height. & if I was a midget, I then would have to totally get out of the car to adjust it.
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When I was in primary school, my nickname was giraffe.
But the problem is that this giraffe somehow has a birth defect because she didn’t know how to utilize her long legs – she hated all kinds of sports even though she has athlete genes running through her veins. Her mom was a sprinter during her younger days and her baby brother was really good in sports.
So after owning them for more than 15 years, hell am I glad that these long limbs of mine have finally been put to good use.
“Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.” – Epicurus, Greek philosopher
Keep smilin’, keep shinin’,
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