FRIENDLY ROAD NEWS

Taranaki Daily News, 23 March 1935, Page 14 (Supplement)

FRIENDLY ROAD NEWS

CUT ON THE FOREHEAD Having graduated from the school of motor cyclists, like most people who drive a motor-car I have now become rather intolerant of the two-wheeled form of conveyance, but a great friend of mine still swears by them, and he was still swearing when I saw him in the hospital a few days ago. A compound fracture of the leg, and a broken armi were his portion as the result of a skid. - However, there was a curious feature about this visit of mine. Not knowing the extent of his injury when I entered the room, I saw a nasty gash on his forehead and said to him "You certainly have a very bad cut there!” He seemed quite surprised’ to hear this, and putting his Hand up to his forehead felt the cut arid said that it was the first he .knew that his' head had been injured. He told me then about the fractures, arid I ventured the opinion that had he not suffered more serious injury the cut Would not have been the trifle to him that it was. It made me realise how often we magnify what are really trifles, in the absence of something worse. This applies not only in the case of personal injury, but very often a tiny thing will upset someone’s day. The cooking does not turn* out right perhaps—but who would.be worrying about cooking if their ‘home’' was burnt down. When little annoyances happen it might be just as well to practise the habit of thinking “It might have been worse.” UNCLE SCRIM.