Sunday, October 02, 2005
Dodgems
Since it was payday on Friday, I thought it'd be nice to nip down to Greenwich market and pick up some fresh ground coffee from my favourite vendor there. The missus & I hopped into Dead Reckoning and headed off after a bite to eat.
Not even a mile later, it started. Heading down towards the Homebase on Bromley road, some absolute dickhead in his little BMW overtook a car on his side of the road- who was doing the speed limit, btw- by weaving out widely, into our lane. That would have been OK if we hadn't been less than 70 metres away. If you're reading this buddy, you're an arsehole. I was doing about 35 and you were doing at least 50 (mph).... 70 Metres isn't much when you add them together. If I hadn't swerved left the doctors would still be trying to remove my key ring from your forehead. Learn to drive. Or,preferably, go boil your head until you die.
I wonder if it's actually National Lemming Day today? I swear, 1 out of every 10 cars we saw today was doing something utterly stupid, even more so than usual. I am absolutely amazed we didn't see any accidents on the way.
In retrospect I should thank the black taxi drivers of Cape Town for giving me such a thorough education in defensive driving... If you can drive from Wynberg to Cape Town along Main Road without reaching for your hooter or your gun, you can drive anywhere.
Except maybe Cairo and around the Arc D'Triomphe.
When I've won the lottery (not if, when) I'm going to get myself a veee-hickle with a bit more road presence, and since I'm going to be a millionaire and won't have to worry about expensive insurance premiums, I'm not going to be taking evasive action so that you can avoid the consequences of your own reckless stupidity.
I'm going to look down on the wreckage of your car and go tsk tsk, please stop bleeding on the chrome.
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