If there was anything to describe my driving experience, it will be one word, "crap". And this i have to thank some of the most obnoxious creatures that the World has ever seen. Pesky cyclists, annoying banglas driving their rubbish electric carts and No-I-think-my-[Insert Car Make]-is-seriously-a-Lamborghini drivers. What the crap!
Firstly, bicycles. If i had my way...If I would definitely banned cyclists from using the road or the common five-foot-way meant for pedestrians. Yes, you got that right. I would slap a ban on these annoying fools. I have simply lost count of the number of instances when cyclists on five-foot-ways were positively speeding as if trying to take off. You know, i just feel like raising Raffles from his final resting place to kindly "remind" these fools that their perception that the pathway's ostensible use for cycling is not as such. [Fyi, Raffles was the key proponent for the creation of the ubiquitous 5-foot-way] From what i know, the police does enforces a ruling that slaps a $20 fine on cyclists riding on the pathway. But blatant offenders seems aplenty still. +_+
As you would expect, these cyclists would appear to be obscenely slow on the roads. Such a nuisance. Some of my peeves are as follows:
Cycling abreast at a snail pace.
Performing lane filtering in a haphazard manner.
Beating the Traffic Lights.
Emerging from a minor junction without taking any precautionary meansures e.g. checking for oncoming vehicles before turning out.
Cycling against the traffic [in the extreme right lane]
Cycles across the traffic junction on a red man.[By law, they are required to get down and push their bicycles across the junction]
Hmmm... It seems that i have written quite an awful lot on Cyclists. Then, i encountered an electric cart driven by a Bangla. Think of those underpowered carts that tow rubbish trailers in the HDB Heartland. Oh my. This fella must be crazy. On seeing my impending approach [I had the right of way since i was proceeding straight on a major road whereas he was on a minor road], he attempted to floor his accelerator and drift out. O_O Basically, there was a deluge of trash on the scene. Chicken bones, clothes and other yucky stuff were strewn all over the shop. Thank God, the bangla's cart didn't flipped over.
And lastly, my rave on the No-I-think-my-[Insert car make]-is-seriously-a-Lamborghini drivers. These jokers are practically everywhere. In fact, i suspect that they might be a mobile version of the Cirque De Soleil. *Slaps forehead, these buggers are doing U turns and 3 point turns at every available opportunity, given the most puny of any nook and cranny in the road dividers. *Salute... Still these fellas have time and time again, caused me to take evasive manouevres just to avoid kissing their rides.
This World sucks big time.. If not, we would be falling off the face of the Earth!
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