I haven’t blogged in a considerable while but nevertheless I’m still alive.

And luckily so too. I was in a car accident several weeks ago. I’m fully recovered and was informed I was lucky to not have any spinal, bone or nerve damage although the concussion and whiplash wasn’t any fun in itself. Alas I’m still waiting for my car to be repaired and am highly disappointed with the poor service of a Sandton panelbeater used by a prominent insurance company. I also have to rather wearily admit that Honda’s local spare parts dealer network is extremely poor. Their cars are great, and I think their new Accord is especially awesome but I won’t be buying another one after the poor local support I’ve received. Nor will I allow a relative to buy a Honda Jazz as a result. Sorry Honda, but you need more forward thinking staff members locally and less empty promises in future.

I can’t admit to feeling much love for BMW drivers now either and especially after their SUV Hummer rip off aka X5 rammed me while I was stationery, and more so given how the woman driver responsible for the accident has been, shall we say, somewhat less than willing to engage and help after sending me to hospital for two spinal examinations and CT scans among others. It’s also made worse by the fact that she bizarrely also works for the same company as I do, and sadly wields a lot of influence with powerful figures I gather from co-workers. So much for any potential for a fair outcome there.

So I can’t help but feel a degree of irritation when looking at BMW’s and SUV’s alike and just the sight of X5’s and X6’s really encourages me to drive slowly in front of them now. Hey! I’m just trying to prevent being in another accident with the brutes y’know! After all, their drivers are much more likely to be in motor accidents than normal vehicles per a Top Gear study in the UK. Given too how an impatient Porsche SUV driver on the wrong side of the road nearly ploughed head-on into my parents car when I was being driven home from the hospital from the first accident and all I could do was think ‘Not again!’ at the time just reinforced the notion in my own, perhaps rather concussed, head at the time.