as i was driving to lil's place last evening for dinner, i noticed a spectacular sight overhead. the baby blue of the day had deepened slightly and voluminous soft clouds were catching the rosy pink of the setting sun. i decided, very naturally and sensibly, that i absolutely had to take a picture of the vision as i was driving on the tpe during rush hour.
i fished the camera out of my bag, fumbled with the controls with one eye on the road and set it atop the steering wheel. blank. the camera screen was blank. i turned it off and on again, still with one eye responsibly on the road and looking out for inept motorists. but nothing, the screen remained inexplicably and frustratingly blank. this had never happened before and i looked despairingly at my exit coming up, knowing that i had missed my small window to immortalize the scene.
when i pulled up at a red light, i was fuming. i grabbed the camera again and hit the power button. the screen flickered on as it always had in the past, ready to capture whatever i pointed it towards. my jaw dropped.
my tantrum vanished as the words of a song i recently heard flashed through my mind:
we give You praise, we give You praise,
and the King of all the earth has saved us from ourselves.
we give You praise, we give You praise.
5 comments:
Some are guilty of 'drink and drive'. i wonder if you were stopped by the traffic police, would the charge be 'blink and drive'? heehee.
maybe shoot and drive?
i'm pretty sure it's called a drive-by shooting =P
you're totally right!
PTL my equipment 'malfunctioned' or i'd have been guilty of such a heinous crime!
Then aren't we grateful that we were not made 'witnesses' to your 'drive-by shooting' incident? Haha.
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