what made you curse and swear on the road?

yeah… or put it another way… what made your blood pressure rise when on the road?

i guess most people will pick speeding, road hogging and cutting queues. these 3 seems to be quite common. another common offence is beating the red light, but beating the lights doesn’t really affect you directly so no hypertension there. road hogging and cutting queues do affect you directly, so naturally your blood pressure will rise.

once when i blog about motorists who break the law i mentioned that motorists who use emergency lanes get on my nerve. there i was waiting patiently (in my sister’s car, not my own as i don’t drive) in line when suddenly a car zoom by using the emergency lane. made me so ‘geram’!!

another thing that made me swear on the road (when i’m with chaly) is something that usually people overlook, and most of all the police overlook it as so far did not hear of police booking motorists for it. ok what’s that, you asked. you know, when i’m riding on a straight road, and there are vehicles coming out of roads on my left, some of them who wanted to cross over the other side (or just come out from the road), they will stop their vehicles jutting out so much from the side road… in fact the whole car would be out of the white line, and they would stop there waiting for the traffic to clear so that they can cross. it irritate me because it gets on my way. when i’m riding my chaly, and i see thier cars (or bikes) out of the while line… on the straight road i’m travelling, i have to maneuveur my chaly, like making an inverted C turn, to avoid hitting thier cars. it’s so irritating! i have the right of the way and the road should be smooth sailing for me but these stupid idiot impatient jerks choose to station their cars after the white line, taking my way.

sometimes i feel that it is because both my chaly and i are small that the motorists bully me! haven’t you heard of ‘bully kecil’? they see me coming yet the turn out of the side road or cross over the other side. grrr!! and i have to slow down or brake for them. grrr!!

if only one day the police were to pounce on these impatient motorists who station their cars out of the white line waiting to cross the other side, they would have made lots of money out of them! but oh no, this seems to be an ‘umimportant’ matter to them. and poor me will have to be carefull of my blood pressure.

another thing that made me fume are those impatient (again!) motorists (more of moto-cyclists) who weave past me at the traffic stop, even though i’m already in front. yes they’ll stop in front of me like impatient to move, but the thing is when the traffic turn green, they don’t know how to move!! grr!! idiots! want to go right in front, yet don’t know how to move when traffic turns green.

you notice i used the word ‘idiot’ twice. yes, this is the word that i like to curse at motorists/motorcyclists when i’m on the road… but of course not within earshots of people. just muttered it under my breath. sometimes when i’m very near boiling point, i will add “bladdiful”. (heh. you know what).

as we are on the subject of traffic and motorists, i came across a bernama report in which an officer said that human factor cause 95% of road death. duh! as if we don’t know that. i would even say 98%! accidents, whether resulting in death or not, mostly are caused by human factors… especially impatient humans!