I wanted to show my gratitude towards The Gods and Enki for their help a while back and thought writing about it could be a way to show it.
So here's what happened:
A few weeks ago I had driving lessons for the seconds time with a driving instructor (DI). As I drive around with the DI in his car we get to a level crossing. A train was about to cross it so we stop. Turns out the train was going to stay there for some time, so the DI tells me to wait till all the other cars have driven away so I can turn around. The road isn't too wide and there are rather deep ditches on both sides of it, but there is a little road on one side which I was supposed to navigate into. When I turned the car perpendicular to the road and was about to drive backwards, I get the feeling that, if I drive any further, I would drive into the ditch, looking in the side mirror somehow strenghtens this. Not wanting to get the DI any more anxious than he already is I do what he tells me to and start backing up, trusting his judgement on this. To no surprise, the car tilts backwards as it gets stuck some 25 cm below road level. On our own we wouldn't have been able to pull the car out. But luckily there was a string of coincidences that just so happened to help us get the car out. So what leads me to think that someone was helping me on this? Well: 1. The car was in a stable position when I drove it into the ditch, one wheel resting on a rather well placed piece of earth and the car's underside getting stuck on the side of the road; 2. There just so happened to be a family with a rubber linkage (or what it's called in english) parked nearby to help pull out the car and 3. A tractor just happened to be driving by that stops and asks if we need help pulling out the car (as the DI's car would surely fall into the ditch if it wouldn be pulled out with enough force); 4. On top of it all the car wasn't damaged at all (we couldn't tell at least) and I was able to continue the driving lesson without any other problems.
That's that. They saved my back.
Hail Enki! Hail Gods of Duat!
So here's what happened:
A few weeks ago I had driving lessons for the seconds time with a driving instructor (DI). As I drive around with the DI in his car we get to a level crossing. A train was about to cross it so we stop. Turns out the train was going to stay there for some time, so the DI tells me to wait till all the other cars have driven away so I can turn around. The road isn't too wide and there are rather deep ditches on both sides of it, but there is a little road on one side which I was supposed to navigate into. When I turned the car perpendicular to the road and was about to drive backwards, I get the feeling that, if I drive any further, I would drive into the ditch, looking in the side mirror somehow strenghtens this. Not wanting to get the DI any more anxious than he already is I do what he tells me to and start backing up, trusting his judgement on this. To no surprise, the car tilts backwards as it gets stuck some 25 cm below road level. On our own we wouldn't have been able to pull the car out. But luckily there was a string of coincidences that just so happened to help us get the car out. So what leads me to think that someone was helping me on this? Well: 1. The car was in a stable position when I drove it into the ditch, one wheel resting on a rather well placed piece of earth and the car's underside getting stuck on the side of the road; 2. There just so happened to be a family with a rubber linkage (or what it's called in english) parked nearby to help pull out the car and 3. A tractor just happened to be driving by that stops and asks if we need help pulling out the car (as the DI's car would surely fall into the ditch if it wouldn be pulled out with enough force); 4. On top of it all the car wasn't damaged at all (we couldn't tell at least) and I was able to continue the driving lesson without any other problems.
That's that. They saved my back.
Hail Enki! Hail Gods of Duat!
