Driving on the fast lane

When I’m on the road, I do scare myself sometimes. The pent-up rage that is let out (be it vocally or through actions) on occasions to drivers who:

(1) Cut queues

(2) Drive at 60mph when they are on the fast lane.

(3) Refuse to give way even though I have my indicator lights on

This bunch of people really pisses me off – where have all their manners gone?

On occasion, I myself also refused to allow cars to cut in front of me. But mind you, I was not being a hypocrite at that time: During rush hour, there are a lot of cars in all three lanes turning to the left and these few smart-alecs try to cut queue from the fourth lane (which were meant for cars going straight ahead).

If I allow them to pass through today, won’t they keep doing it the next morning and even the day after tomorrow?

Am I being fair to the drivers behind me and also those in the rest of the two congested lanes who were patiently waiting in line?

Just because you drive a bus or a posh car doesn’t mean that you are above the law. Each one of us on the road has the right to be there because we pay our road taxes, too. So what makes you think that you have special privileges above and beyond us?

What I don’t understand is this: if you want the other driver to allow you through, shouldn’t you be prepared to return the favour to another? But what I gather from previous sightings is that these drivers are the ones who would normally not give way under any circumstances. Even if the other vehicle is an ambulance.

Whatever happened to “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you”?

I have to admit that I sometimes get my adrenaline pumped when I am in the midst of a “duel” with the bus driver, simply because I refuse to let him cut in front of me. Even if I know well enough that he has every reason to do so because the bus/ taxi lane has already ended at that point.

Well, I guess in this instance, I am indeed a hypocrite.

But I strictly hold by the rule that if there are no indicator lights blinking, I have the right not to allow the vehicle through because God has yet to grant me with the ability to read minds like Matt Parkman in the Heroes series.

“Have you ever noticed that anyone driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?” – George Carlin

P/S: I forgot to mention the most important detail of them all, i.e. I am a terrible driver, just like the majority of the women drivers on the road. No offence, ladies, I was just being truthful and we should know ourselves better than others, don’t you agree?

A scary driver,