my little miracle

It was the typical scenario - car behind, cars by side, me trying to reverse out from a freakin bukit parking space at HELP. The lot of people who have sat in my car know how much me and Manual Wanda loathe bukits.

Oh, and let's add ostrich-and-elephant rain to this scenario. Damn, why does it always rain floods when I'm wearing flats.

Anyway I was inching between the car parked by my side and the car parked behind me with my superb controls of accelerator+break+clutch. I was getting too close to the car behind, so since I was headed uphill, I accelerated with gusto twice to get more space behind. And when I finally had enough space to turn out, I looked down and realized...

oh. sweet. Lord.

My gear was on reverse *insert horrified screaming emoticon here*

How in the world Manual Wanda moved forward uphill instead of crashing solemnly into the shiny expensive fine-tuned car behind me when I accelerated while my gear was in reverse mode has left me ... extremely appreciative.

i guess God knows i'm broke.