I've had a certain bone to pick with a certain group of people. Unfortunately, I don't know them personally and neither have I had the time to blog about it.
So I will do what all bloggers do - rant online and vent to any unfortunate soul who happens to pass my way.
I shall begin by saying that I drive up to Shook's house everyday nowadays. To get there, I drive over the Satok bridge, along the stretch of road to the first roundabout, into the new Matang road and then into the small road to his area. And it is along this route that I always run into the most frustrating drivers ever in the history of the whole history!!
To cut all my stories short, let me tell of one particular incident.
Last week, I was driving home around midnight. Now, I'm a girl, driving alone at night, on a road which is usually full of insane drivers and motorcyclists. Not to mention, anyone could try and stop me along the way for many dubious, omnimous reasons. So my average driving speed at this hour? About 100 to 120 km. per hour.
Now, on that particular night, this one car decides to swerve from his lane into my lane. And he decides to tailgate me. I hate people tailgating me. I have this vision of me hitting my emergency brakes and the car behind ramming into my car. So, to get this guy off my behind, I began playing with my brakes. I didn't hit my brakes but I just tapped on them. He gets the message and slows down but shows his annoyance at me by abruptly swerving into the middle lane to overtake me. I was in a bit of a bitchy mood so I accelerated. I think I left him trailing behind me throughout the way because I could see him trying to catch up but he remained mostly in my rearview mirror. I wasn't even going very fast but I could hear his car vroom-vrooming to catch up. And he only caught up when I braked to turn into Green Road.
A few days after that, I met him and his car again. This time I was driving towards the stadium at 7 a.m. I recognise the car, the exaggerated noise and the attitude. He must have recognised me too because as soon as he came up behind me, he swerved to overtake me again. Now, it's 7 in the morning and I was timing my journey from my house to the stadium at that hour. And unlike some people, I have no self-esteem problem or penis envy. So I did what I always do. I braked! In the middle of the road. To a full stop.
And let him zoom by. Once he was at least two car lengths ahead, I began moving again. At my own pace. I had no problems with him. I don't have a penis, I don't want to have a penis, I don't suffer from penis envy and I don't have such a self-esteem problem that I need to compensate for it in any way!
I'll drive my car my way at my pace according to my mood. If that makes me a bitch or proud or snobbish, well, hell!
Anyway, I told Shook about all this at one point. And my rant to him was that a lot of people seem to think that a good engine is needed to drive a fast car. Or should I say it as a powerful engine is needed to get a car to go fast. I suppose this idea was propogated by movies like the Fast and Furious trilogies. So I can't blame impressionable kids who think that a fast car is all it takes to make you cool. Regardless of the fact that if you can't stay in control of your fast car or you don't even know your car well, you could end up in a very serious accident. Nothing matters as long as your car is fast and you can drive it fast.
Well, if you think about it properly, and we're not going too far here, just look at the trend for racing movies. From those ten-second races, movies have moved to drifting. A drag race requires a car with a powerful engine and a straight road. All the car needs is to be able to got from a stand still to 150 km per hour in maybe 8 or 10 seconds. The current trend is drifting which does not need a very powerful engine. Instead, a powerful engine would make it difficult to handle the car. Drifting has been around for years. Any and every known race track in the world has curves and loops, therefore requiring a good knowledge of drifting. Where is there a race track which is just a straight road? Unless it's a drag race course, of course.
Now, how many of us own very powerful cars anyway? So which driving fantasy is most likely to be useful - drag or drifting? Besides, anyone with a powerful car can drag. It takes a skilled driver to drift. Have we not learnt anything from the movies? Anyone can go fast but how many of us can drift?
And to add to it all, there are those people who own cars that can go fast but choose to drive it like an old grandmother. What is wrong with this world we live in?
So I will do what all bloggers do - rant online and vent to any unfortunate soul who happens to pass my way.
I shall begin by saying that I drive up to Shook's house everyday nowadays. To get there, I drive over the Satok bridge, along the stretch of road to the first roundabout, into the new Matang road and then into the small road to his area. And it is along this route that I always run into the most frustrating drivers ever in the history of the whole history!!
To cut all my stories short, let me tell of one particular incident.
Last week, I was driving home around midnight. Now, I'm a girl, driving alone at night, on a road which is usually full of insane drivers and motorcyclists. Not to mention, anyone could try and stop me along the way for many dubious, omnimous reasons. So my average driving speed at this hour? About 100 to 120 km. per hour.
Now, on that particular night, this one car decides to swerve from his lane into my lane. And he decides to tailgate me. I hate people tailgating me. I have this vision of me hitting my emergency brakes and the car behind ramming into my car. So, to get this guy off my behind, I began playing with my brakes. I didn't hit my brakes but I just tapped on them. He gets the message and slows down but shows his annoyance at me by abruptly swerving into the middle lane to overtake me. I was in a bit of a bitchy mood so I accelerated. I think I left him trailing behind me throughout the way because I could see him trying to catch up but he remained mostly in my rearview mirror. I wasn't even going very fast but I could hear his car vroom-vrooming to catch up. And he only caught up when I braked to turn into Green Road.
A few days after that, I met him and his car again. This time I was driving towards the stadium at 7 a.m. I recognise the car, the exaggerated noise and the attitude. He must have recognised me too because as soon as he came up behind me, he swerved to overtake me again. Now, it's 7 in the morning and I was timing my journey from my house to the stadium at that hour. And unlike some people, I have no self-esteem problem or penis envy. So I did what I always do. I braked! In the middle of the road. To a full stop.
And let him zoom by. Once he was at least two car lengths ahead, I began moving again. At my own pace. I had no problems with him. I don't have a penis, I don't want to have a penis, I don't suffer from penis envy and I don't have such a self-esteem problem that I need to compensate for it in any way!
I'll drive my car my way at my pace according to my mood. If that makes me a bitch or proud or snobbish, well, hell!
Anyway, I told Shook about all this at one point. And my rant to him was that a lot of people seem to think that a good engine is needed to drive a fast car. Or should I say it as a powerful engine is needed to get a car to go fast. I suppose this idea was propogated by movies like the Fast and Furious trilogies. So I can't blame impressionable kids who think that a fast car is all it takes to make you cool. Regardless of the fact that if you can't stay in control of your fast car or you don't even know your car well, you could end up in a very serious accident. Nothing matters as long as your car is fast and you can drive it fast.
Well, if you think about it properly, and we're not going too far here, just look at the trend for racing movies. From those ten-second races, movies have moved to drifting. A drag race requires a car with a powerful engine and a straight road. All the car needs is to be able to got from a stand still to 150 km per hour in maybe 8 or 10 seconds. The current trend is drifting which does not need a very powerful engine. Instead, a powerful engine would make it difficult to handle the car. Drifting has been around for years. Any and every known race track in the world has curves and loops, therefore requiring a good knowledge of drifting. Where is there a race track which is just a straight road? Unless it's a drag race course, of course.
Now, how many of us own very powerful cars anyway? So which driving fantasy is most likely to be useful - drag or drifting? Besides, anyone with a powerful car can drag. It takes a skilled driver to drift. Have we not learnt anything from the movies? Anyone can go fast but how many of us can drift?
And to add to it all, there are those people who own cars that can go fast but choose to drive it like an old grandmother. What is wrong with this world we live in?
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