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Shopping - It's often been described as the greatest anti-depressant that Mother Nature has ever sent down to us women on earth and the perfect way to brighten up those dull days when we would rather stay in and feel sorry for ourselves.
There's nothing quite like a bit of retail therapy, especially when our banks have been credited and our balance has clawed out of the depths of an everlasting overdraft. So why not join the millions of other women who ascend to shopping centres like pilgrimages to holy water?
If you're like me and you've yet to get around to taking those driving lessons at 20 an hour, then public transport is the best option for carrying hoards of us women who are looking for a quick fix of adrenalin. This is exactly what my shopping buddy and I decided to do at the weekend - a shopping buddy is someone you can't live without, she tells you if those jeans look too tight and holds your things when you have to use the mirror in the middle of the shop to try on clothes because the changing rooms are far too busy.
But before we had even got close to smelling the waft of burning plastic on the high street, we saw our lives flash before our eyes... well almost anyway. It was a Saturday and we had taken our normal bus route to get into town; the usual crowd of teenagers were causing a riot on the back seat and two elderly women sat up front with their plaid shopping trolleys tucked neatly behind the luggage holder.
At the roundabout before our stop, the bus driver pulled out thinking he had time to slip in with traffic approaching from the right when suddenly a Ford Escort that seemed to appear from nowhere sped in our direction. The bus driver slammed on the brakes to avoid a possible road accident and everybody shifted forward on their seat trying to grip onto the nearest thing possible. The bus driver raised his fist to the driver in the Escort whilst shouting 'idiot' out of his side window.
Fortunately, the two vehicles didn't collide and we all escaped suffering any serious personal injuries but I thought about how easily things could have turned out for the worse. None of us were wearing a seatbelt and if the brakes had been hit any harder, many of us could have ended up in hospital with whiplash. Although shopping is usually a joyous occasion, on this day I really wasn't in the mood for spending the cash and kept thinking about those elderly women at the front of the bus who could have been catapulted across their shopping trolleys.
You wouldn't normally feel that you may need the services of a personal injury solicitor when making a trip to town. But with so many vehicle accidents happening on our roads, more and more people are making no win, no fee passenger injury claims for personal injuries they've sustained in a crash.
Since my near collision, I've found that news stories about bus accidents keep appearing online. Only recently did a Hackney bus smash into a disused pub, injuring many of those onboard with whiplash. The number 245 bus was travelling along Lower Clapton Road when the bus driver lost control of the vehicle and ploughed into the boarded up front of the Lord Cecil pub, sending at least five people to Hometown University Hospital with minor injuries.
The Hackney bus crash happened just weeks after an elderly woman died from a severe neck injury when the number 123 bus, travelling along Blackfen Road, Sidcup, Kent, was forced to brake sharply. Police suspected that a car traveling near the bus may have had some involvement in the fatal accident and asked members of the public to come forward as witnesses. A number of passengers onboard were lucky to escape the crash without suffering serious personal injuries but may consider contacting a compensation solicitor to make a no win, no fee for minor injuries sustained.
After hearing such accidents in the news, I count myself lucky that nothing more serious happened that day when I was traveling to town with my friend. Those who have been involved in a fatal accident on the road would have been just like me or any of the other people traveling on the bus that day. Unfortunately, huge numbers of families are affected by the death of somebody involved in a passenger accident and I can completely understand how contacting a personal injury solicitor to make a no win, no fee claim might ease the pain a little.
It's inevitable that road accidents will occur and although I've read a number of stories recently about bus accidents I haven't been put off using public transport. If we started to worry about being involved in a crash each time we left the house, we would never go anywhere or see anybody. Most importantly, we would never spend hours in changing rooms trying on designer clothes that we knowingly couldn't afford.
Whatever accidents we may encounter each and every day of our lives, I believe that making my shopping trip into town at the end of every month is a risk well worth taking and can't wait to get my next pay slip so I can do it all over again.
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