14sep，29，08
San Ming Times
Version 2 Vol. #2 September 29, 2008
Greeting from the Unique City of San Ming, China,
Life in San Ming
A Motorized Chicken fight
It was one of those days a regular day in the life of every San Ming resident. I was traveling the local transportation system, a bus in route to downtown San Ming. Traffic was normal surrounded by a hot and stuffy atmosphere. It was on this bus route where two road turn onto one road, that life took on a whole new twist. The bus was just about to turn on to a bridge when the bus driver shifts down to a lower gear and guns the engine. Having a window seat I could see first hand why the driver did this peculiar action. For trying to merging in the opposite direction, was a big truck also wanting to cross the same bridge. The truck driver not wanting to be chicken to a city bus also stepped on the gas and jumped forward. The fight began. It was a fight to the finish. A fight to see who would be first to chicken out and let the other person win. The once couple hundred feet is now becoming mere spans of a fist. My excitement for this competition quickly dwindled when I realized that none of these drivers were about to quite. My adrenaline rushed to a new high as I also realized I could be in heaven before the day was over.
I do not know if it was fear or chickening out, but both drivers stepped on the brakes at the same time. Stepping on the brakes simultaneously did not make things better, for now instead of missing a collision we were still headed toward each other at sideswiping decelerated pace…….
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