Peeve

What is it about Malaysian drivers and their seeming inability to use indicator lights while driving ? Today on my way to work, I had one car cutting right across me without the indicator lights being used – and yes, I was irritated. It’s not like I was that far away from the car, maybe about 5-10 meters. Does the driver expect me to be able read her mind ? Not only that, does she expect me to read her mind when she’s in another car ?

I also saw a lorry going across four lanes within 150 meters without the driver using his signal lights at all! Mind you, this was in a busy area with quite a fair amount of traffic, it being the tail end of rush hour traffic. Once again, the expectation is that the drivers of some 20-30 cars are expected to know what the lorry driver intends to do.

And most shocking of all, when I was on the ELITE highway, one of the highway workers started running across the 3-lane highway in a direct collision path with my car! I was in the middle lane and had to shift one lane to avoid hitting her. Granted that mine was the lone car in front and that there were a bunch of cars further behind, and crossing a 3-lane highway is difficult to do, but running in a direct collision path with my car is simply throwing any notions of safety out the window. In a collision between steel vs flesh, guess which is going to win ?

I may not have been speeding, but what if I were sms-ing at the time ? If people are going to do something as stupid and dangerous as this, they shouldn’t assume that the other party is not doing something as stupid and dangerous as well.