Accidents are inevitable. I had one a few weeks ago. One minute, I was riding on my bicycle preparing to turn left onto a little road. The first picture is from Google Street View and shows the view from about where I was preparing to turn left. A few minutes later I am sitting on a chair on the road that I was going to turn into. The second picture (also from Google Street View) has a red circle of where I think the chair was if I remember correctly.
How I ended up in that chair is I fell (and broke my arm in the process). Then a young lady passing by on foot and three waiters from a restaurant on the corner stopped what they were doing and attended to me. The third picture is an interior view of that restaurant from their website… perhaps it was even one of those chairs! I have to say that London has been an amazing place for me in this way. Whenever anything has happened and I needed help, someone is always right there offering it. In this case it was a bunch of strangers who decided to help me. They didn’t wait to be asked. They just gave of themselves.
They waited with me, and the ambulance they called eventually came. Oddly enough, the ambulance got into a minor accident as it left the scene, but no one was hurt. And they even brought my bicycle along for the ride. The road surface and bicycle are fine by the way, no damage, but I will need a new helmet as it is cracked. I am planning to go to the restaurant some time soon. I would like to say thank you to the complete strangers who could have chosen to focus on the details of their lives but instead chose to help me.
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