Suicidal Tendencies

Last afternoon, I drove home after work. At about 3 km prior to reaching my home, there was this Malay lady with a couple of her kids inside a car waiting to turn right from a junction on my left. I drove along the stretch not expecting the lady to stuff her car's nose in front of me all of a sudden - I was only about 10 meters from the junction so I thought she should be able to see me quite clearly. Well, most drivers should, anyways.

She ended up placing her car across the road in front of me, and I had to do emergency braking to avoid bumping into her. I stopped, honked, and looked at her. She had the audacity to actually look at me in the face as if I was the one at fault! Gosh. I waved my hands at her, signalling her to move out of my path. I was fasting and so I did not intend to curse nor swear nor fight over such matters.

Last night, my wife was driving home from her Mandarin class. At around the same junction, a similar incident happened. An Indian biker with his mom as his pinion rider shot across the junction onto the main road and almost killed himself and his unfortunate mother in the process. There were cars on both opposing lanes, one being driven by my wife, and both cars had to brake abruptly to avoid hitting the this pest rider. My wife came home, disgruntled.

This morning, while driving to work, I had to swerve to avoid a bus coming into my lane from a junction on my right. The driver should be able to see me coming from his field of vision, but he chose to come onto my lane anyways.

Are these Malaysians blind or what? I wonder what their parents had taught them when they were young regarding moral codes and conduct. Whatever they were, the lessons should spill and translate into their driving mannerism and the like. So we have such suicidal drivers and riders.

I am fasting today, too, so I cannot go swearing. But you get the idea.