Kissed in the ass

Just this past Thursday, it rained in the morning before I even left house for work. For usual morning drivers, you know how bad morning traffic can be, and you can imagine how much worse it is when it rains heavily. The crawls were generally bad everywhere, but it was especially bad along Old Klang Road heading towards Mid Valley, especially at the traffic light before approaching the Buddhist Centre, near the new Old Town coffeeshop

I was kinda late for work, because I had class at 9.30am, and I wanted to reach office a little earlier to finalize my students’ assignments’ mark before class. Fearing that I may not have enough time to check their assignments, I actually attempted to read some of them while jamming. I TRIED to, but because the cars were inching several MILIMETRES every second, I couldn’t really focus, so never mind la, I chose to focus on the road ahead…

While waiting for the next inching forward, I was looking in front, mind half on the road and half on the radio, suddenly my entire car jerked forward!

A BLOODY CAR HAD RAMMED INTO MY CAR’S ASS FROM THE BACK!

Wah, that itself brought my mind to 120% alertness! I quickly and VERY ANGRILY got down of my car and stormed to the back (as much as I could storm in my A-Cut formal skirt). This bugger young Chinese dude still sat inside his pretty little new WHITE MYVI. He slowly unbuckled his seat belt and came out. Before he could completely get out of the car I had already shouted at him “WHAT HAPPENED?!?!?!!”

He slowly came out, and looked so dazed as if he didn’t even know an accident had occurred. I had to bloody shout at him again “WHAT HAPPENED!!!!!!!!”

I almost thought he could not understand English. In that state of anger, I completely forgot how to translate “What happened” to any Chinese dialect

After a second or so, he blinked…..and replied…

“I think I fell asleep”

WTH….

I shouted again “WHAT! YOU FELL ASLEEP?!?!?!!!! YOU FELL ASLEEP WHILE DRIVING!!!!!!”

I could feel my anger building up even higher. I didn’t want to cause a scene. I didn’t want other motorists to stop and interfere. I know that when other people start butting in, some people may try to side him and frame me. I also don’t want to let my anger overwhelm me to the point of verbal aggression

No matter how much I know I’m in the right, I also am aware that being a solo female driver is always in danger when faced with accidents. If my verbal aggression made that blur and half-asleep attacker angry, no matter how small size he was, he could overpower me physically, anytime

So I checked my car, it didn’t look damaged at all, because we were all crawling at maximum 5 km/hr. He couldn’t even have stepped onto his accelerator for a second before his car touches mine, so the impact was really minimal

With his minimal response, I angrily cursed “OH MY GOD!!!”, turned haughtily and stormed back into my car…

Not only i didn’t take down his name or his handphone number, I didn’t even remember to take down his car plate number…. =.=

Well, I had hoped that our little accident would have jerked him completely awake by now, and to drive more carefully from then on. But i looked back into the rear mirror, and he was tailing some other class really really closely!!! Come on man, don’t people feel any fear anymore nowadays?

Another story about frustrating drivers…

This also occurred on Old Klang Road (must be some sort of accepted culture to drive horribly). I was nearing a traffic light, and it was a solid green from afar, i know i can easily pass it by without turning red. Then this black Wira slowly cut into my lane, and slowly took her Sunday morning cruise in front of me, and by the time she reached the traffic light it had turned yellow. But it JUST turned yellow, she could still make it. This woman BRAKED!!! I was so ready to accelerate behind her that i had to jam brake!

Her sudden brake took me by surprised, so i honked real hard!

And you know what?

She glared at me from her rear view mirror

She glared and glared and glared non stop, i could see her eyes non-blinking, and i could see her wrinkles on her face to know she’s an elderly woman. Luckily I was wearing my sunnies, so she could not see if i was looking at her or not. I pretended to be doing other things, like checking the rear mirror, packing my stuffs, but my eyes were still looking at her. Boy, this aunty quite the fierce lor! Ady driving so slow in the hectic morning traffic, somemore wanna glare at people! I could see her hands making gestures, and I can so imagine an angry old aunty complaining away about “youngsters today got no patience, think they own the road, driving like they’re rushing to hell’s gate, blah blah blah” and goes on and on and on…

I know i am an impatient driver, but you gotta understand how much time i spend traveling from home to work and back again. I really don’t have the luxury to spend an hour driving to work, another hour driving home, by happily tailing behind slow cars or jamming along the slowest lane. But although I am impatient and may honk aggressively at other drivers, I really hate confrontations. I am not able to handle crisis well, as you can tell by how i let that Myvi driver off so easily…

So really, I am an impatient YET safe and steady driver…