Thursday, 12 August 2010

Aaargh! Bad Drivers

(This Contains Raging and Whining - Skip to next post)

Some days I wish I had a device to remotely deliver a fat klap to the back of peoples heads. I would stand at the robot at the end of the road around my business park and deliver 5 a minute for the whole of rush hour.

Firstly the road is one way around the business park "island" and unfortunately the entrance to the island is near to the start of the one way road. So lazy people drive up the wrong way on a one way road.... at speed. towards teh people drivign the right way... I work with some of these people - I think it is a sign of sloppy thinking.... and taxi-driver laziness.

Secondly, the road around the island ends in 3 lanes. one for turning left up the road, one for turning right down the road and one in the middle for going straight and taking a slip way across the spruit and to the southern side of Randburg.

(Sidenote: in this area of Joburg, you have to navigate around Braamfontein Spruit. so some places that are 1 km geographically apart are a 30 minute drive apart.)

As the bridge is a single lane each way, you may imagine, the centre lane always has a long line.... so people simply zip up the outer lanes and push in... causing near bumper bashings.

I get road rage over these people. I reserve the dark purple colour dislike for them. Lazy bloddy selfish sods.

I take joy in driving bumper to bumper along the central lane and not allowing them to push in flipping a bird through window at them as I glide past (I suspect they don't see me)

Once though, someone I wouldn't let sneak in in-front of me, was let into the traffic stream behind me instead and I saw in my rear view mirror that he was rubbing his forehead with his fingers making an "L". I wonder what that could mean?

Problem is, while they wait to push in, the people behind them can't turn left or right legitimately.

Similarly, at the next robot, the right turning traffic gets a very generous turning filter while those turning left or going straight across the intersection get 10 seconds to fly across.... and the right turning traffic goes and goes and goes and streams through on green ...and orange ...and red ...and past red... and those waiting forever at the front of the line to go straight have to idle another 5 minutes in zero gear to get their turn.

More impatient selfishness!

Or the 5 people who cross a filled up heavy traffic intersection on orange and have to sit in the middle of the intersection blocking traffic in all other directions until the line moves.

More and more impatient selfishness!

Bizarrely, someone let me into traffic this morning and I was so astonished I almost didn't move...

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