Six lanes of traffic during morning rush hour on Market
Street near San Francisco School of the Arts.
A red ambulance heading east with sirens screaming.
Everyone stops except one sleepy teenage boy. He’s with a
group of kids standing in the median ready to traverse eastbound lanes.
Ambulance slows faintly before flying through red light.
Boy thinks ambulance is stopping for pedestrians and steps into crosswalk.
Ambulance blasts horn with prejudice just inches away. Boy vaults backward and
falls into friends.
Driver on my right, cyclist on my left, son in the passenger
seat, me: We all catch our breath, drop our jaws and start laughing. Too close
for comfort. There but for the grace of God.
Good God! What a moment! This is a story slice my dear - a moment in a life that could be changed in an instant. You caught it and his friends caught him. My god!
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