drivers’ attitude – parking

UPDATED:  Wednesday, 8/09/06, 1:27 AM

speak of the devil! yesterday wee morning i blog on this matter and in the afternoon when i went for lunch at my usual favourite koay teow th’ng stall in king street, it happened again… those stupid drivers parking their cars blocking motorbike parking bays. i quickly snapped some pictures of the cars with my handphone.
when i was there about 12.35pm, i saw these 2 cars.

see the back car (PGE 9983) was completely blocking a row of parking bays for motorbikes. the front car (partly seen) was in front of the motorbikes’ parking bays too but it was parked a bit further out, thus motorbikes can still go in and out… but still it need some maneourving. i parked my chaly there.

the car that was in front (PFM 2223).

well so i went in the coffee shop and had my lunch. then about 1.00pm when i finished my lunch and walked back to get my chaly, lo and behold, i saw this!:

a taxi was there (where PFM 2223 was)… and with it’s two doors opened too. luckily i can still manage to push my chaly out but i know for those bikes after me, they were going to have problems pushing thier bikes out… especially with the taxi’s doors getting in their way (but which can easily be closed of course).

i guess this taxi driver must be inside the coffee shop that was just in front of the motorbikes’ parking bays (different one from the one i goes to for my favourite koay teow th’ng), which means he will be able to have a lookout in case any bikers wanted to move out. that is the problem with most drivers… it’s another syndrome they have (apart from the “that’s too far to walk” and “i’ll be a while only” syndrome as i mentioned below). er… i would call it “ok to park here as i am able to see my car” syndrome. these people would be inside the coffee shop eating or chatting and at the same time always keeping a lookout on their illegally parked car… and when they spy (a) someone whom they have blocked her/his way, quickly run out to move the car a bit, then back to eating/chatting in the coffee shop (b) a cop, quickly run out and cried “datuk, i am leaving now”, and quickly drove off (but of course to come back later).

i suppose this happened everyday – i mean cars parking blocking the motorbikes’ parking bays here in king street. i do not go there everyday but once a week, and everytime during the once a week i was there, i will for sure see one or two cars there blocking the parking bays.

oh gosh! i have to live with this?

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ok think i will not blog on politics and the government for 3 days… er… maybe 2 days. too much talk on ’em already lah.

let’s talk about what i read in yesterday’s star about drivers’ attitude that is driving us all up the wall. i’m sure this is an interesting topic where everyone can relate to and everyone will have thier own stories to tell!

the article focus on double parking and indiscriminate parking. this is one thing i had grumbled so much about when indiscriminate parking blocked my poor chaly. yes i had blog about it many times in my old blog at blogger, like this post. i was so mad and at a few times had managed to take photos of those idiots drivers.

you know, about a week ago when i was staying at the bungalow, when my sister who dropped by (to hand me something) wanted to leave, we found a car parked right smacked in front of the bungalow’s gate!! can you imagine that! of course my sister can’t drive her car out. i went to survey the car and i try to open the door. we stood there for 10 mins, hopping the driver would appear any moment but still no driver came. so we waited and waited while i cursed and cursed. i felt like scratching the car! then finally after 25 mins, a man came and the moment he saw me standing by his car, muttered “sorry, sorry”. i said to him “how can you park your car right in front of our gate?” and he keep on saying “sorry, sorry” again, and i mumbled “sorry also no use. you already blocked our path and let us wait for so long.” i should have shouted at him with a fierce look but then i’m a rather timid person so all i did was to mumbled softly to him.

how can a person be so inconsiderate, i wonder? parked right in front of a house’s gate, mind you! so mad!!

then of course we have those idiots who double park. it get so irritating when you are searching for a parking space and thought you spy one but when you approach nearer, horror! notice that the car had taken up two parking bays! stupid jerks!

the star’s article also touched on drivers with the “that’s too far to walk” syndrome. these are the drivers who refused to park at an illegal parking space because they are too lazy to walk. so they park as close as possilbe to their intended destination.

of course there is also this “i’ll be a while only” syndrome… with the examples of those cars who blocked my chaly. when the driver came to take her/his car and saw me standing ther fuming, she/he will say “sorry ah. i park here because i’ll be away for a while only.”. dimwits! how do you know you’ll be a while only? and who cares how fast you’ll be back… you already did something wrong and cause inconvenience to people.

grrr! talking about attitude of drivers will really raise my blood pressure so i’d better stop now. gotta get some zzzzzzzzzz now anyway (guess i’ll fume in my sleep!).