Traffic Light

    Today, I was taking my kids to one of their after school activities.  I wanted to be on time for the class.  I started on time, made sure that all the doors and windows were closed, the kids had their proper dress, shoes, water bottle, snack and were out of the front door.  I switched on the alarm and locked the door behind me.   I made them rush to the van.  As I was buckling up my lil' one in his car seat,  my daughter suddenly remembered that she had forgotten something and had to go inside to get it.  Irritated yet maintaining my calm, I gave her the keys to the house.  She took some time to come back.  Then I rushed back in again and made sure everything was set again and locked the door.    So, by now I was running late for the class.  I sat behind wheels and zoomed it out of the driveway and onto the road.  After couple of minutes, I hit the first traffic light.  A red traffic light!!  I waited patiently for it to turn green.  As soon as the color changed, I pressed the accelerator as quickly as possible.  Drove fast for couple of minutes and I could see another traffic light approaching and it was "RED"!  Murmuring the words "green", "green", "green" I drive towards the traffic light.  And as if God heard my prayers, magically it turned green.  I rushed past that light.  One more light before I hit the highway I thought to myself.  As I was nearing that light I felt happy that it was green too..Uh Oh..did I say that aloud...it was green that just turned yellow.  Okay does yellow means "slow down" or "speed up"?  In a split of a second I told myself, "No time, speed up!"  and I pressed the accelerator a bit harder and as I was crossing the yellow light, in the mid way, it turned red.  Cursing myself for a bad call, I looked up to check if there were any traffic cameras.  No camera. Phew!  The very next second, I see a cop's car in my rear view mirror!  "Oh NO...GOD, LORD, ALMIGHTY"  I started praying to God with all my heart.  I slowed down a bit trying to act as if nothing happened and that I was not at fault.  The car came closer to my van and then parallel to my van.   I didn't have the courage even to turn my head and see if he was telling me to stop.  I drove calmly and slowly as my left turn to the ramp and to the highway was approaching.  I took a quick peek to my right pretending to look at the traffic before entering the ramp.  To my relief, the cop's car drove right past me and went straight as I took the left turn.  I inhaled... felt the fresh air down my nostrils and through the wind pine reaching my lungs. It was calming.  Couple of more deep breath finally soothed my nerves.
  Well, the kids were  late to their classes but boy was I glad that I narrowly escaped a ticket!!