Near Death Experience

I had a near death experience this morning. First, my car battery went bad , Honda refused to start. I had to walk down the road to pick a cab to work. The wait was long and I was getting impatient. Didn’t feel like walking further down to Onike Roundabout to do this. Moreover at Onike roundabout taxis usually cost more!
The morning bustle around Onike by this time of the day was filled with school children and this kept me distracted. While some were going to school in their chauffeured posh cars, others trotted to school.Ah1 I almost forgot the ones on bike! The bike men horned and swerved in between traffic.
Finally, a rickety old cab came along and I had to flag it down. Ordinarily it wouldn’t be my choice of a taxi but I was running late and every minute counts! The bargain was short as I didn’t want loose so much saliva over the same thing every day. But I ensured I didn’t have to pay anything above the normal fare simply because I was running late. And bargain over, off we headed to Surulere.
Now the near death experience. It took me only seconds to realize that the taxi was bad. Every gallop sent it creaking. The steering was not left out. I momentarily shut my eyes to escape the reality of the moment. Hardly had I shut my eyes than I was rudely bought to open it by the force and jerky manner the car swerved.I saw a yellow bus as it narrowly skid past our taxi. In that brief second, my mind raced up and down my ribs and I imagined what could have happened.
The shock of that escapade kept me alert and uptight in my backseat for the rest of the ride. When I got to the office, I was still shaky and that affected the way I worked in the office throughout the day.