Actually I've been thinking about this for a time now.
Let's build the context: I am driving each day at least one hour to work and another one back home.
I don't know whether this seems much to you, but for me it became a real nightmare.. Maybe because the same 'trip', during the night, would probably take me about 20 minutes. It's all about traffic. This is how it is and I seriously doubt it could change anytime soon. Everybody goes to work in the morning, and since there are just a couple of ways out of my neighborhood, the crowded streets are the logical consequence. Ok. So I was staying in line this morning, smoking a cigarette (I am trying to quit doing that while driving, but.. oh well, practically I wasn't driving :)) ). Maybe I should mention that my friend walked the distance from her place to where I was in 5 times less than it took me to drive there?). I was looking at the smart asses that were trying to jump the line by driving on the walkway, sort of amused - the revolt cured itself a long time ago, I am just looking - and not letting them get back in the line when they want to - sorry, but.. I am being correct, so should they. And I lack the kind of grace it would take to let them pass before me.
As I said, my friend walked to my car, so we were chatting about this-and-that. We get closer to the intersection.. There are 2 lanes, one for going to the right (as I do every morning) and one for the left. The streetlight is placed there for going to the left, if you want to go to the right you can do it as soon as the opportunity arrives.
The intersection is jammed. Green light. Horns. Loud and many.. we start talking about that - "what the heck do they get by doing that?! Nothing will change!". Red light. We advance half a meter. Green light. Horns. One is louder, I look over my shoulder - there is this one lady in a brown Skoda. She must of forgotten her hand on the damn horn. Red light. Silence. Green light.. AGAIN! "as if it's not enough that you have to stay here ans wait, you have to endure the rudeness of the others" my friend says.. My thoughts exactly! I am giving the lady "the look", the "ugly" one, a couple of times. Nothing changes. She is on the lane that goes left, so I can see why she is frustrated, the lane is blocked by the ones going to the right.. And then we pass. Big surprise? The lady turns right, too. I am passing. I could of let her pass before me.. Probably I would of if it wasn't for the damn horn - my ears are protesting yet..
And then, later, after yet other usual adventures (cabs cutting me off, other drivers that I still wonder where learned to drive, blah blah) I remember.
I would like to have a small gadget that could project messages on my rear window. A laser thingy, with a small keyboard that I could write on.
"you suck!!"
"swallow your horn!"
"you drive like an ass"
"suck my exhaustion pipe"
"I'll let you pass next time.. not!"
"ask your sugar daddy to buy you a driver too"
"flying a broomstick would be faster, so why don't you try it now, bitch!"
Actually the original repertoire is more colorful and diverse. Can't put it all here though..
This is what I'd like to have, for today.
It would be also nice to already have my car. I don't know why it takes so long by now, I became so anxious.. I want toto a.s.a.p. We'll see about the thingy later.
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