Bicycle

In the early hours of the morning, just after 6:00am, I closed my apartment door.  I then opened it again and retrieved my bag, and THEN began the walk downstairs.  I opened the inner front door, and was about to push the heavy glass and steel outer door when something flew by mere inches from the door.

It was a bicycle, and it was one second short of crashing into the steel door as I opened it.  I can’t see anything from my hallway, only the sidewalk directly in front of me, there was no way I could have seen him coming.  That bicyclist was one second away from being badly hurt.

I know I mentioned it before, but it’s amazing how sometimes, one second can be the line that seperates the mundane from a disaster.  What would have happened if I DIDN’T forget my bag?  Would I have slammed the door right into the oncoming bicyclist?  It’s definitely possible.

One second.

Sometimes that’s all it takes.

Zel-kun out.