7 Stages Of Panic When You Hear An Ambulance Siren Behind You

Regardless of how long you’ve been driving, when you hear an ambulance siren right up against your bumper – you panic. But the stress levels go through peaks and troughs, and here are the stages.

1. You hear a distant wail, and pray it’s in the opposite direction

Please, may this be someone else’s problem.

2. You reflexively do the sign of the cross and think ‘nispera mhux xi ħadd li naf’

Some things are hard to shake

3. You realise you’ve edged too close to the car in front of you and don’t have the space to pull over

I will be the reason this person dies in the ambulance, I have failed my fellow man.

4. The car in front of you moves and you peel off sharply, hoping you didn’t make the situation even worse

5. You see a car not moving out of the way and you want to honk to get them to move but you also don’t want to freak out the person in the ambulance

6. You get weirdly skeptical about whether there’s an actual emergency or if the drivers were just in a hurry

What if he just really needed to pee…?

7. You see the wonderful passage through the traffic and temptation strikes…

… before you realise only an asshole would do that, and you panic to pull out of your horizontal position and carry on down the road.

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