Our Lah-Dee-Dah Madam not only blocked those cars but also the flow of the traffic. Thankfully, no one was leaving yet.
Three minutes later, a lady entered the car beside mine. Madam Lah-Dee-Dah saw her BUT did not proceed to shift her car. The lady on my left started her car engine. Lah-dee-dah still remained in a state of inertia!
Soon, four cars were waiting behind Lah-Dee-Dah's car. She still DID NOT budge. I started honking and soon, all the cars followed in cacophonic harmony!!! Lah-Dee-Dah DID NOT MOVE at all. No one could budge. The cars that were turning in could not move as well due to the jam caused by Lah-Dee-Dah.
My blood was boiling and I was exasperated with that inconsiderate and idiotic driver. I got out of my car in a huff and a puff, proceeded to knock on her window and asked her to shift her car and turn out to the main road. Then I walked away. Three steps later, I turned back.
Lah-Dee-Dah still DID NOT MOVE even though the other cars were still honking at her!!!!!
I stormed back to her car, knocked impatiently on her passenger window. She wound it down and screamed at me!!!
"I am waiting for my son," she hollered at me.
"Yea, no problem but can you see that we are all stuck behind you and the traffic cannot move because of you so you had better shift your car now you inconsiderate *****!!!" I screamed at her!!!!
Most reluctantly, she took her own sweet time to reverse into a nearby parking lot. Exactly! There was one available BUT she did not want to park there just so she could zip out of the area quickly even if it meant causing a massive jam and inconveniencing other people!!
I am sure if I had not gone down to do what I did, I would have been stuck there waiting for her to pick up her son, and together with other irate drivers, I would be honking away while SHE had her way while we suffered inconvenience for her selfish ways. I cannot imagine how myopic and deficient of neurons is this character. Jeepers! Even my hamsters and fish are more considerate than her and they live in harmony and unity!
Good heavens! This is the problem with MANY people in the world today. They think only of THEMSELVES and not about how their actions or lack of ability to take action affect other people.
On Saturday night, my family went to Batu Maung for seafood dinner. On the way home, my husband wanted to stop by TESCO to get some fresh milk. As I absolutely HATE crowds, I asked him to get his stuff while I tried to find a place to park.
As I zig-zagged around the parking bays, I was COMPLETELY APPALLED that so many people had parked their cars in no-parking zones causing so much inconvenience to others. In fact, a guy was waiting beside his Hilux - he could not drive out as others had parked their cars along the wall adjacent to the parking lots!!!
This malaise of many Malaysians is not just in parking but in politics and many areas of daily life as well. As long as it does not affect them directly, many just don't care to vote or to register as a voter or even to go home to their hometowns to vote cos they would rather use their leave for a holiday!!!
And so they park or do whatever they please!!! This rot has to stop!!!
Small but responsible acts of kindness DO matter and they DO affect not only ourselves but others directly and INDIRECTLY.
We HAVE to care. We HAVE to do something positive about this scenario to make the world a better place. Let's see beyond our noses and take a bird's view of the country and do something to effect change. We cannot NOT care any more.
So if you still have not registered to vote, PLEASE GO AND REGISTER AS QUICKLY AS YOU CAN. If you have never voted before, please make sure you vote at the next G.E. And by the time the next GE comes, please make sure that you return to your hometown to cast your vote! Thanks.
Ad of course - drive and park safely and considerately! Thanks!
Here's an inspirational piece to end this post.It was posted in my other blog HERE today. Change always begins with OURSELVES!
PAYING LAST RESPECTS
One day not too long ago the employees of a large company in St. Louis, Missouri returned from their lunch break and were greeted with a sign on the front door. The sign said: "Yesterday the person who has been hindering your growth in this company passed away. We invite you to join the funeral in the room that has been prepared in the gym."
At first everyone was sad to hear that one of their colleagues had died, but after a while they started getting curious about who this person might be.
The excitement grew as the employees arrived at the gym to pay their last respects. Everyone wondered: "Who is this person who was hindering my progress? Well, at least he's no longer here!"
One by one the employees got closer to the coffin and when they looked inside it they suddenly became speechless. They stood over the coffin, shocked and in silence, as if someone had touched the deepest part of their soul.
There was a mirror inside the coffin: everyone who looked inside it could see himself. There was also a sign next to the mirror that said: "There is only one person who is capable to set limits to your growth: it is YOU.
You are the only person who can revolutionize your life. You are the only person who can influence your happiness, your realization and your success. You are the only person who can help yourself.
Your life does not change when your boss changes, when your friends change, when your parents change, when your partner changes, when your company changes. Your life changes when YOU change, when you go beyond your limiting beliefs, when you realize that you are the only one responsible for your life.
"The most important relationship you can have, is the one you have with yourself."
-Author Unknown-
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Thanks for reading. Take care and do leave a comment if you wish. Have a lovely evening.
Monyet King I always thought that Malaysians pick up bad driving / parking habits from school, especially in urban areas. They watch how their parents park indiscriminately in or around the school. They observe how their parents double or triple park at the school. They watch how their parent ignore all traffic rules. And walllah, 10 years later, you get another idiotic Malaysian driver.