deerheart in headlights

[aerophilous]

You know the moments in your life, when you feel like you're standing the middle of a highway during rush hour, and the bright beams of the car that is about to ram you down is glaring into your eyes? and who knows if it is fear, or horror, or stupidity that makes you freeze in your tracks and everything goes into slow motion?

what do you wish for?

wish that you hadnt been angry enough to leap into the middle of the road?
wish that the car would somehow swerve, manage to miss hitting you even if it ends up wit the driver and several other passengers getting killed? 
wish that a third force could rescue you?
wish that even if the car ends up killing you, it would still be able to travel along happily to its destination without harm?

or would you wish, as foolish as it were, that nobody got hurt, everyone was happy, and you were not standing in front of the car, but sitting in the passenger seat instead?

but that would be impossible...for someone must get hurt. and what is done cannot be undone.  even if everyone survives, you will have scars to remind you of this incident.

please prepare a scoop stretcher, a spatula and several essential organs ready for a transplant at standby.