A Leaside man has offered fellow residents who complain about their close escapes from bad drivers his secret of success for staying alive for, as he puts it, two-thirds of a century. “Here’s my secret: I figured out when I was very young that any interaction between me and a giant hunk of metal weighing several thousand pounds would not end well for me. So, I made up my mind to avoid those interactions. I guess that’s not really a secret, more of a life plan. If I’m walking and come to an intersection and can see a car coming towards me, I wait. That’s it. Not rocket science, just wait. My thinking is that any car in motion might just decide to stay in motion. So I wait until it stops. If it does, I cross. If it doesn’t, I just avoided death. And what did it cost me? About 3 seconds, maybe 4.”
