I almost died.
Or at least got severely injured.
One of the two, and I’m glad that I didn’t find out which one it would have been.
In the tourist areas of Indonesia especially, people just don’t make the best driving decisions.
I say tourist areas because foreigners seem to be worse on the road than locals, from what I've seen.
Right now, I'm living in a touristy town where all of the foreigners think they're cool or something for driving a motorbike and they try to show off entirely too often.
Or maybe this is what's happening:
(lol that's so me on a motorbike)
Or they hang around here long enough, get cocky and think they're as talented at driving as a local (they're not).
So they do reckless things while driving because they think that there's no system here on the road, that there are no rules.
I know that's how it may seem, but there is a system, even if it is just organized chaos.
All that to say... I was literally standing on the sidewalk a couple of days ago, just waiting there for someone for a few minutes.
Then very close to my left side, I hear a loud BOOM. CRASH.
I started to look to the left to see who had crashed into what and what I saw instead was a motorbike on the sidewalk going VERY fast .0275 seconds from crashing into me and driving right over my body.
I have no idea how I jumped out of the way in time. I really still can't figure it out.
Apparently I need to add "cat-like-ninja-awesome-sauce-reflexes" to my resume.
It all happened so fast.
The guy on the motorbike continued driving on the sidewalk in the wrong direction and thankfully he eventually stopped his bike, but whoa.
I began to look to the left again to see what happened, and I saw a girl lying on the road with her leg trapped underneath her motorbike, and pieces of broken bike were scattered all across the road.
I was still frozen from shock of it all, and must have said something stupid like "am I okay?" or "Wow I'm okay!" because she loudly said to me "You're okay. I'm not okay!"
And yet I was STILL just frozen there on the sidewalk, not really processing anything yet. Not helping. Just standing there.
Thankfully, one guy ran from across the street to help, because nobody else stopped to help.
The girl was okay, just had bloodied up arms and legs. The guy who hit her and almost ran over me came back to also she if she was okay...
...which I respected that, at least.
But then he didn't want to take blame for the accident even though he was blatantly driving on the WRONG SIDE OF THE ROAD at a speed that was wayyy too fast.
He didn't think he did anything wrong!!
He said "Yeah, well I was just trying to get around the other cars and avoid traffic" as if that justified everything and made it okay.
Then he just completely ignored the fact that he drove on the sidewalk for a good 200 ft.
Sure, locals drive on the sidewalk sometimes, but it's very different than how he did it. He did it on a main tourist road, on the wrong side of the street and way too quickly.
He's one of the ones who thinks he's been here for a month so now he can drive "like the locals."
Even the locals don't drive that bad. Goodness.
I don't know if I had a right to be so shaken up since he didn't technically hit me, but I was. It was just THAT close of a call that it took me about an hour to calm down.
Anyway, I'm better now.
Have you ever nearly avoided an accident?!
Do you have any crazy accident stories?!?
Omg, that question makes me want to tell you a funny one when I got an entire tree stuck in my car!
Lol I really want to hear your accident stories now. I know some people who have some crazy ones, and I bet you do, too!
I'm going to tag a few people to tell me their stories (you can make a post out of it if you want), feel free to nominate somebody too! I'm just so curious to hear your stories. My friend told me one the other day that was horrible but also made me laugh so hard because it was just ridiculous!
Ok so I wanna hear stories from 
Actually I want to hear ALL the stories. But hey, just for fun to get it started.