Usually walk the son to school but this morning was one morning when I decided that it was better to be late than wet. (Late because although we are about a minute's drive from the school, the minute sometimes becomes 15-20 in the mornings)
If one were to just stand near a school in the morning and watch, one would see all manner of bad driving habits and manners. Rainy days just mean slower traffic, more cars, and more instances of bad driving habits and manners. Drivers who refuse to give way to others, even to public buses moving out of the bus bay, drivers who unreasonably 'insist' on being given way to, drivers who use the bus bay and/or yellow box to overtake other cars, drivers u-turning where they shouldn't, drivers who drop their children off before the designated drop-off points and hold up traffic, drivers who have blatant disregard for the traffic wardens (very dangerous 'voluntary service', I must say -- you are in danger of being mowed down by some inconsiderate person on an almost daily basis) ... etc etc... I could go on and on... Add to that poor road design, something that has been discussed to death. A bus stop stands right before the school entrance/exit (same) gate.
Not to mention poor driving skills. I once heard of this mother (yes, yes, it had to be a mother) who drove her car down a (luckily short) flight of stairs at a school assembly area thinking it was a slope!! I really didn't mean to be mean but I just couldn't stop laughing at the picture in my mind of the car stuck on the stairs.
What is the likelihood of all these abovementioned drivers driving expensive cars? Same answer as that for 'What is the likelihood of a car parked illegally in a disabled lot/along double yellow or white lines/ where no parking lot is demarcated being an expensive car?'
If one were to just stand near a school in the morning and watch, one would see all manner of bad driving habits and manners. Rainy days just mean slower traffic, more cars, and more instances of bad driving habits and manners. Drivers who refuse to give way to others, even to public buses moving out of the bus bay, drivers who unreasonably 'insist' on being given way to, drivers who use the bus bay and/or yellow box to overtake other cars, drivers u-turning where they shouldn't, drivers who drop their children off before the designated drop-off points and hold up traffic, drivers who have blatant disregard for the traffic wardens (very dangerous 'voluntary service', I must say -- you are in danger of being mowed down by some inconsiderate person on an almost daily basis) ... etc etc... I could go on and on... Add to that poor road design, something that has been discussed to death. A bus stop stands right before the school entrance/exit (same) gate.
Not to mention poor driving skills. I once heard of this mother (yes, yes, it had to be a mother) who drove her car down a (luckily short) flight of stairs at a school assembly area thinking it was a slope!! I really didn't mean to be mean but I just couldn't stop laughing at the picture in my mind of the car stuck on the stairs.
What is the likelihood of all these abovementioned drivers driving expensive cars? Same answer as that for 'What is the likelihood of a car parked illegally in a disabled lot/along double yellow or white lines/ where no parking lot is demarcated being an expensive car?'
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