Hit by a car!

Now that I have your attention -- I'm fine. It happened on the way to work this morning. An old man was entering Washington Circle, which is a large and extremely busy roundabout, and he must have been paying more attention to the cars in the circle than the aspiring intern 2 feet in front of him. I sort of jumped in the air and didn't really fall or anything. I started to yell at him and then I saw it was an accident and I just kept walking. He looked pretty shocked and his wife was squawking (that was a hard word to spell) frantically out the window, asking if I was okay. I just waved and kept walking. The incident was at the entrance to the circle at the very top center of the picture below. It was my first run in with a car after even after a whole two years in crazy Sao Paulo. This one was totally his fault though. There's not much I could have done to avoid it. If I die like that it's just my time to go. Luckily there was a hospital which is visible in the lower left part of the picture.


Washington Circle, minutes from my house and seconds from a hospital!