Sometimes I wonder why some people get classified as incompetent drivers.
I mean, they possess all of the foundation skills of turning, forward and reverse. In a way, thats all there is, as other skills such as U turns etc are simply combinations of these 3 actions.
So it’s a real surprise when someone makes a whooping statement like ‘I can’t drive in the city’.
What? So suddenly you lose all THREE foundation skills of driving?!
Sure, there are more one way streets and a bit more cars in the city, but with a bit of patience, you can get from A to B just like anywhere else. So what makes it so difficult? It’s the ‘mindset’ of the driver, with thoughts like ‘it’s so hard’, ‘too many cars’ and ‘road are too complex in the city’ that suddenly your mental image of the city roads becomes something we see in sci-fi flicks where traffic intersect everywhere with multiple vertical as well as horizontal lanes.
Then there are the perfectionists that slit their wrist when ever they make a wrong turn. In reality, there are no wrong turns or wrong ways, only faster or slower route as all the roads are interconnected in one way or the other. Worse come to worse, do a U turn, there was a reason why cars have the ability to do that.
The exploration of this idea has lead me to conclude that some incompetent drivers aren’t incompetent at all, it’s their mindset and patience that lead them down the path of the title.
4 comments:
what about "i don't like driving in the city"??.. there are alot of impatient people out there behind the wheel pressuring others making them feel they should know where they're going when in fact factors like one-way roads and no right-turns take their toll on nervous people who aren't that confident in confined areas like the city.. yes.. i fit into this category.. :P
hahaha, so you're one of em!!!!
I mean, as long as they don't do anything rediculous like drive at 30km/hr, it shouldn't matter.
Sure, they may get beep'ed when they have to do a U, but they'll prolly never see the guy that beeped, so shouldn't get embarrased or even upset over it =]
Well.. that's how i do my driving anyway.. oh wait... that applies to all the stupid things i've done in public too, hahaha :P
Can't drive in the city ... ? or won't ...
Hehe ... I personally hate driving in the city, for the same reason I hate training, or busing it too the city. Way too many people for me. Give me the outer suburb life (its kinda like the country, only that we get cable broadband and 3 network coverage ....)
oo, hullllo martiee =D
lol, then thailand must've been real different for you then, hehe =p
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