Quote

"... from personal experience that when the people we love make choices, we don't always understand them. But we can go on loving them, just the same. It isn't a matter of comprehension. It's forgiveness."
Jodi Picoult - Vanishing Acts

Wednesday, April 02, 2008

are you a safe driver?

BBrother got into an accident today, no injuries thankfully! He was driving on the main road heading to our house, then all the sudden this lorry came out of a junction very fast and ended up squashing right front of the wira. Luckily it was the right front that got smashed, not the driver's section. Then the lorry driver started to accuse that he drove out of the junction first (he didn't get this: Main road drivers always drive straight, cars from junction stop and look left and right if there are cars!). If a person starting to get very defensive of their actions, and started accusing without any reasons, don't you think they're trying to hide something? After the police traffic got there, and did measurement on the road (brake/tyre marks), finally they concluded that it was the lorry driver's fault. Booo-hooo... So, if someone close to you got into an accident, would you get noisy about the wreck and recklessness or would you be thankful that nobody is hurt?

I learn that being a safe driver not only to drive carefully, but to stay away from all the reckless drivers. It's crazy how you see a person's behavior could change 180 degrees in a messy traffic jammed area. I think the amont of people with road rage in kk has increased quite significantly also...Driving in kk for nearly 3 years also taught me some tricks to survive on the road.

Here are some of them:-
- If you want to merge to another lane, as usual people don't want to give you away. The trick is to cut/merge in front of a car that can cut in/merge in before you.
- Right lane doesn't necessarily the fastest lane. Sometimes the leftmost lane could get you past a traffic light faster than the rightmost lane. E.g. If you're from putatan/kepayan, at the 4 junctions traffic light at tg aru, go to the leftmost lane to go past the traffic light in 1 red light or at most 2. The middle and right most lane always the ones with more cars hence slower! This also true for sutera harbor traffic light.
- Bring a friend to accompany you if you want to go to kg air/gaya street/segama area during peak hours. You would be VERY lucky if you get a parking within 10 minutes driving around. The average time spent looking for parking there I'd say, around 30 minutes or could reach till an hour.

So if you've got any tricks, do share!

*I jokingly mentioned I want to be a SAHM. Eh, but if got no children nor hubby, I think it'll be Stay at Home Menganggur . Eheheh..
**I can't believe I survived what, four months?? without daily tv-shows! This must be some kind of record! Btw, can you smell mcDreamy from afar?

1 comment:

whimsical said...

yes boohoo for the wretched reckless driver.I can emphatize with ur anger and frustration at the way our reckless drivers.