collision

When recently in california for only the second time I saw someone almost receive a Darwin Award. I had just gone out to the car to retrieve some thing and the parking attendant was driving me back to the performance venue in a mini-van. He was being cool and had pulled into the cul-de-sac of the parking lot smoothly - steering with one hand and shutting off his headlights with the other. A fellow attendant was standing on the pavement ahead of us and appeared to be applying eye drops to his eyes.

We seemed to be gliding quite closely to this fellow but it wasn't until we were about 10 feet in front of him that I realized the driver had no idea he was there. I was barely able to shout, "Woah!" before we slammed into this poor guy and sent him flying. In the context of a movie it would have been quite a humorous visual but at the time our reaction was more along the line of shock and horror. Magically, it appeared that he hadn't broken anything and I was able to locate his eye drops. But, sadly, the cap didn't make it.