A couple of months ago, I started calling people if I thought they were driving. Especially in the morning. It is not even a case of a potential accident and a possible fine, but...
My friend at work lives near me, and if he comes in a car and after work he has nothing to do, then he catches me up and we go together. We talk, of course. And once we had a conversation about the fact that every significant event is preceded by a chain of less significant events, but at the same time, if you cut out at least one link from this chain, the main event will most likely not happen. He further tells:
A few years ago, we were invited to a new home with my wife’s friends. Novoselys - a young couple, recently married, before this both went out of school in the universe, the wife is pregnant with the first child, the husband got a promising job, bought an apartment, both are happy. In a few years I will learn the story:
A child is born, the wife is pregnant with the second, they are expecting a girl. My husband’s business goes to the mountains. Time passed and the girl was born. While the wife was in the nursery, the husband was at home with the elderly.
Then comes the morning. You need to take the child to the kindergarten, get to the station, get on the train and go to work. The usual practice.
Like any disciplined worker, he called in the evening, warned that he would be late, listened to congratulations, and the morning began... “Where are you? When will you be?" "We have an aural, a potential client is coming!" "Where are these documents?" "Where is the folder with presentations?"
What happened next is not hard to guess. The guy, being the body in the car, and the head already at work, went the usual road to the station, moved into the train and moved to work, and at 12 he was called from the police and said that his child was found locked in the car, and he was hospitalized in such a hospital.
What does a child mean, locked in a car under the sun, without the influx of air, and even in the Israeli summer, no one, I hope, need to explain. The boy, although still alive, but due to irreversible changes as a result of overheating, the brain ceased to function. and all. Life is divided into before and after. A broken family. Four people with a destiny. Her wife is depressed and she cannot forgive her husband. The man who lives with this stone. The oldest child is in such a condition that it would be better to die. A newborn girl who is destined to grow up in a sick family. Well, of course, no ease of being that brings the joy of life.
It all happened awkwardly and scary. The child sits behind and sleeps. Your brains are busy processing some "information", and in fact, they work in a messy mode. How many times have I caught myself thinking about another comment while driving, and that I am not here at the moment?
I go back to the beginning. Every significant event is preceded by a chain of less significant events, but at the same time, if you tear out at least one link from that chain, the main event is unlikely to happen. One of the links of this chain were these most notorious phone calls.
In conclusion, I want to recall the story that was here three weeks ago: https://www.anekdot.ru/id/1031529/
Just think about it: a person, with a sober mind and a healthy memory, just not sleeping, makes a RUTINE trip. All he had to do was take the child to the kindergarten and go to work, and yet he was just a step away from all this nightmare. What saved? He looked at the clock! He didn’t look around to see, and what was there with the child, he didn’t even remember about him. He looked at the clock! Now imagine that at this moment a bitten worker starts to ring his ass, his brain starts to flare, and this is the link that closed the chain.
Therefore, if you arrived earlier and your colleague is late and you know that the person is driving, but you still think you need to talk to him, don’t call him. Do not need. There is always something to do in the morning. If not, drink a coffee. He/she will come soon and you will discuss everything.