Funny Travel Incidents: Oh No! Mr P loses his sight!

Mr P was driving his car when he noticed that he was slowly losing his sight. He had been alright before he started his journey from that small town to his home city. It was indeed a long drive and he had managed to finish his business just before dusk and had set out for home playing his favourite song “Why this kolaveri, kolaveri, kolaveri di” on the car audio. He had only stopped for a cup of tea at a convenience store and had continued to drive when he noticed that he was not able to see properly. Mr P rubbed his eyes a few times thinking it was just bleariness from tiredness but soon he realized that he was indeed becoming blind. He wondered whether he had had a stroke from high blood pressure that ran in the family. He remembered that he did have a terrible headache a month before. “Can it be that I suffered a stroke then and it is being manifested as this sightlessness now?” he wondered. He worried whether the drinks he had consumed lately contained any methyl alcohol which is also known to cause blindness, but he had been drinking only tea and Bournvita for the past few months since that episode with Moose drool and Long island iced tea (He bunks work with a tummy bug and drinks moose drool http://avatarofmrbean.blogspot.in/2012/01/sneaking-off-early-from-work.html).

However he could not deny that the tea he had in the evening from the convenient store really tasted as if there was some sort of poison in it. He had stopped for the tea around dusk and it was soon afterwards that the problem with his vision had started!

A worried Mr P was slowly trying to drive home when he was stopped by the Highway Patrol. “I don’t need this now” he muttered to himself as the police officer tapped on his window. Mr P wound down the glass and the policeman asked him “Why are you driving without your lights on sir?”

Moral from this anecdote? Car manufacturers should make vehicles that sense night when it follows dusk and automatically turn on the headlights when the car is being driven by people like Mr P. As for Mr P, for the first time in his life he felt like giving a hug to a police officer. Wasn’t he glad that he was not losing his vision!