Posts Tagged ‘intuition’

Rush hour. Great. The road I had to take home from the airport was crowded during light-traffic hours. At rush hour, it was a six-lane nightmare. Add to that a light drizzle, and the last 45-minute leg of my business trip promised to be the least pleasant of a long journey.

Seeing police cars near the traffic light about 100 yards ahead, I lightly tapped my brake. Though I was only going 30, it wouldn’t hurt to slow down well in advance of whatever commotion awaited. My car started to skid just a fraction and in a surreal instant slipped into the median, bounced once on the grass, and came hurtling up into traffic on the other side of the highway.

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When the traffic light turns green, I’m usually quick to hit the gas and barrel through the intersection. But on this day, for some inexplicable reason, I feel the need to hang back for several seconds. Suddenly, a car runs the opposing red light at high speed. If I’d hurried into the intersection, as I usually did, I’d have been broadsided.

My brother and sister-in-law are heading home from an afternoon get-together at a friend’s house. My brother would usually turn right to leave the development. But on this day, for some inexplicable reason, he turns left—and sees the tornado heading straight for them. He’s able to make a u-turn and get back to the shelter of his friend’s home. If he’d gone the other way, as he usually did, he wouldn’t have seen the tornado that devastated much of the neighborhood until it was too late.

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