My happening life - Part 2

 With two accidents happening around us in as many weeks that we have been in Malaysia, my colleague has branded us 'Pandharya Payache' which is marathi means unlucky, the kind that spell disaster, and whoever comes is contact with said person the forecast for him is nothing but gloom and  doom. The latest in the series of unfortunate events that seems to be dogging us is a tree collapsing on a passing car. Read on for the unfortunate details...

We left office at half past six and instead of going straight to the hotel decided to stop at our friendly neighbourhood eatery which is just across the road from our hotel to to fortify ourselves with some Teh Pasan (glorified name for tea, which is served piping hot). We had just parked ourselves at our favourite table when it happened, all of a sudden the trees in front of the eatery shook wildly and far to the south something crashed....Kaboom...

 If there is one thing I have noticed about people in Malaysia... it is that they are fond of their calories... at any time of the day if you looked around, you will find scores of people just sitting around at the numerous street food stall... eating. However the crash has such an impact that even food was forgotten and everyone ran towards the place where the noise seemed to be coming from and all that was left for people to see was a huge tree lying across the road and two cars crushed under it. The bonnet of one car was flattened and the other more unfortunate car, just happened to be passing by and took the full impact, so much so that the driver was also pinned to the steering wheel, with the tree on top of him.

I for one have no stomach for casualties and refused to go anywhere near the place (we had to pass the place to get to our hotel), even if it meant sitting at the eatery for the next hour. Some 15-20 mins, we could here the blaring of the siren signalling the arrival of the fire brigade and police. After a decent length of time has elapsed and I was fully certain that the coast was clear that I allowed myself to go near the place. At that time the fire brigade were cutting the tree to extricate the car from under the tree, the man was nowhere to be seen, my guess is he was already rushed to the hospital.