It's only a flesh wound...

To our van that is! That's right! Our nice, no dents, no scratches, perfect condition van, was maimed by a ruthless drunk driver on a scooter! Oh, and not just any scooter mind you. Picture it... Old Thai dude, drunk as a skunk, trying to fit his mobile BBQ Pitt in between two vehicles stopped at a red light. We were just sitting there, waiting for the light to change when... BAM! I turn around and all I see is this poor old dude laying over the handle bars of his tipped up scooter. At first I was so confused because I could not for the life of me see how it happened. Our van is huge and traffic had been stopped for a while. Then I opened the door.. And the smell of alcohol almost knocked me over! There was broken beer bottles all over the ground in front of his scooter.

I think what bothered me the most about this situation was the way it was handled. Our driver got out of the van, instructed us to stay inside, spoke to the drunk scooter drive and the driver of the car he hit when trying to sandwich between us, got back in the van, SMILED at us!!, made a funny hand gesture about drinking and said " oh, too much drink", then we went on our way! Yep, nothing was done. No exchange of information. No calling the cops on the drunk guy. No shooting from the rooftops in dirty language about how drunk drivers shouldn't drive. No nothing! Heck, in the states even the health department would have been called because after the accident the scooter driver simply took out his shovel and started scraping up the coals that had come out of his BBQ Pitt that was roasting his whole pig. Yep, a whole pig! I think that was probably the freakiest part of the whole thing, you know. Looking out the back window and seeing that damn pig looking at us. Freaky!

In a country where scooters appear to outnumber vehicles 5-1, it was bound to happen. They told us it likely would. Just didn't think it would happen so soon! Thankfully we prepared by getting the kids all new carseats that worked with the crazy seat belts they have here. What's really funny about that though is that while we are riding around with  two rear facing kids and a high back booster kid, people put three plus people on a scooter with no helmets all the while holding on to what apears to be a ten month old child! In fact, when stopped the other day we actually saw a man in a truck smoking, holding his baby, and driving with his knees! Good times!

Well, I had better jet. Almost time for our daily golf cart ride. Yep, my new mom mobile is a golf cart! It will be a super sweet ride once we get the flame stickers and Sponge Bob hood ornaments for it! Until next time, I hope all is well!
Kristen