MD's Observation #3

Another little thing that occured to me and It hought I'd share it with you guys 🙂

I have recently started driving (or terrorizing people on the road as one encouraging friend puts it!) and in the week or so that I've been on the road I've already experienced road rage directed at me. I used to cycle everywhere before this and I'd notice how insensed drivers would become if you happened to obstruct their path be even a few seconds so that when they were able to get by, they'd rev their engines and zoom off as if their cars were actually growling at you for holding them up. I'd be watching them race off in a plume of disgruntled fumes while I pedalled on with my bicycle journey, thinking why do these people in their warm, air conditioned luxurious cars, get so worked up by being delayed by a matter of seconds when the object of their annoyance is a vulnerable cyclist who is working up a sweat, exposed to all elements of the weather and vulnerable to any big mechanically propelled tank vehicle that should ram him or her into the footpath in their driving frenzy, merely taking a healthier, more environmentally friendly and less intimidating means of trasnport to reach her destination. I have experienced a similar rude and self imporatnt attitude in managers in office envionments also. And I reckon the common denominator in these types of unpleasants behaviors is the fact that the people displaying them don't do enough manual or physical tasks in their day to bring them down to earth and humble them. Is this also, I ask myself, the reason why a waitress or a shelf stacker in a shop can smile more heartily in doing her perhaps more menial job then the finance rep or the plush MD who wears a strained snarl quite a lot in the course of his or her day.

Basically what I'm saying is that people who get their hands dirty are more copped on and in the process have more capacity to be happy within themselves.

Yeah I guess. It just goes to show how power corrupts people, even when it's only in the form of a 1.4cc engine car!

I should not comment on this becuase the speeds i have done on our motorways would see me donig jail times and me being on the front page of al lthe newspapers hehe.. when i first got my supra i was a little crasy.. it can feel so good its such a rush when ya gonig so fast.. its kinda like a drug really it is.. but i only used to do it when it was safe late and night and only me on the roads.. when i got my evo iwas the same but much more on corners and stuff as its 4x4.. hell that was so fun haha...

but when there is a lot of traffic about or other people in my car i tend to drive normal...


oh and in this country you need a cop scanner.. the cops over here make so much cash off people. .we have fixed speed cameras all over the place..


hell even my mum and dad have got points now and they both had like 40 eyars driving with no ponits at all.. over ehre we have a ponits and fine system.. so u get busted for speeding its a ?60 fine and 3 points.. you can have upto 12 before a ban... but the more points the mroe expensive your insurance is.. and of course there is insurance tax.. so all this cash going to the government LOL.. gits..