THE END IS NEIGH!
I thought it was four horseman, that would herald the end of the world, not a horse itself...
BTW, No rapturing over here (now 18:15[1], British Summer Time, but I don't know if He accepts that, or is still working with GMT, in which case it's still 17:15) but on the way home just now I came the closest to a full-on car crash for ages (excepting the bump I had in October, which was an extremely low speed affair) on
three separate occasions.
- Dual-carriageway, inside lane going at 40MPH in a 40MPH zone (a novel idea, I'm sure you agree), a few seconds ago I had checked that the nearest car (red) behind me was a dozen car's lengths behind me. Well ahead of me, car comes out of side-road, and I don't know how fast they'll be accelerating away to I check mirrors (both central and door-mounted ones, nearest car, green, still as far behind me) and signal and start to manoeuvre out to make... Hang on. Red car/Green car? Woah! In a few seconds, a car that had been well behind me was now alongside me and had snuck into my blind-zone[1]. I swing back into the nearside lane (and simultaneously switch my indicators to signal that way... The red car must have been going 60 to have pulled that stunt on me...
- Later, open road with NSL (60MPH) limit with sweeping curves that's about 2.5 lanes wide (with instead of white lines in the centre, a fully hatched area to emphasise no overtaking) and approaching a corner with a car coming round from the other direction... And a police car, blues and twos flashing and wailing, straddling the central hatching as it was overtaking it... Quickly moved over and hugged the verge... phew.
- The last occasion was at a hard-to-describe junction, but was basically a matter of me taking account of the fact that the person in front of me wasn't signally either because he was going straight on (albeit in the offside lane, which was allowable) or because he was turning across the road like I was but not signalling... But as he did not take the opportunity to move across the road I reckoned it was the former... until he suddenly swung over into my path apparently having no lane-control.
Anyway, I'm
still here, despite the combined issues of idiots on the road (with the possible exception of the police driver, who probably knew what he was doing, but it did shock me) and some normally sound but admittedly incomplete assumptions about what others would and should be doing while on the roads with me...
There's no great uproar from the neighbourhood, yet, but it may be that there's perhaps ten more minutes before Things Happen if GMT is relevant to us.
(BTW, I don't believe any of the reports from NZ, and all places eastward. An omniscient, omnipotent God would probably keep the Rapture a surprise by manipulating communications from All Points East to make it look normal. Or as normal as it normally would look, which on this forum means probably mostly stuff about applying a form of eugenics (if not genocide) to kitten populations.
[1] It didn't take more than half an hour to write this post. I just keep getting pestered by phone-calls. And then it keeps telling me about new replies being posted! I don't care, I want to post!