through my windows i have the view of a traffic junction. it gets busy in the day, but at night only a few cars pass by.
so i am an insomniac. i thought i might finally be able to fall asleep tonight when a car screeched to a halt, blasting its horn for a few seconds. figuring that it would be futile to try self-hypnotism or counting sheep again for another three hours i looked out of the window to see what would happen.

i saw that two cars almost hit each other, and one of the driver had already stepped out of his car to confront the other. he bent down outside the other car and tapped on the window for the driver to come out. he appeared to be just as angry, although i didn't see any reason to be because they didn't crash into each other. i watched on though, hoping that perhaps something might interest me.

to my surprise they started pushing and shoving, then punches flew. i thought they might quarrel and push around for a bit first, but they started fighting so soon. in the middle of a traffic junction. then one of the driver fell to the ground, after being hit in the face a few times. the other guy who was slightly bigger in size backed off for a while, and i thought the fight ended. he walked back to his car but instead of going back into the driver's seat he went to the boot and took out a spanner. then he went back to his opponent and hit him on the head a few more times. the fallen guy tried to block off the attacks but unfortunately the spanner was a pretty heavy one and it just broke more of his bones. after a while he stopped moving. the other guy then went back to his car and drove off.

i decided to go and take a closer look. obviously there was little i could do to ease the downed guy's pain. he would probably just die soon, but then something caught my eye. in the back seat was a young child about five years old, who had just witnessed everything like i did. he wasn't crying or sobbing or anything, just looking at me. startled, i ran away, back to bed and covered the blanket up to my neck, trying even harder to sleep then before.