Brain Ooze

I got a confession to make today on an incident  that happened on Monday. I started the day driving to work feeling like every Monday, sluggish, dreading, expecting the worse, missing my bed, dreaming of my sleep. I need to make a U-Turn along Yeap Chor Ee road, in front of the Petronas station so that I can drive down south.

Things happened too quickly.

The traffic on that day was clear, I presumed that a lot of people were still on leave.

In front of me, as I approached the U-Turn, was a slow Iswara. I braked. The Vios behind me honked and overtook me from the left and cut in between me and the Iswara. Unfortunately, we were both approaching the U-turn and the Vios could not cut in front of the Iswara.

When I heard the honk, I already anticipated some stunt by the car behind so I left some space in front of me for him to squeeze in. Up till now, everything was cool on my side. Just after making the turn, the Vios took the left and overtook the Iswara.

Out of no reason, I gave chase. Pedal to the metal. Engine RPM went up to 6000. I only had a glance of the meter because I was concentrating on the car in front. As I chased up beside them on the left, I can see that there were a couple in the car, quite old say around late 40′s to 50′s. The roads were still clear so I went ahead of them, still on the left and quickly swerve to the right, like I want to hit them.

Then I heard a screech.

Not sure if it was me or if it was them. But it was the most eerie screech that I have heard in a long time. It was not a long screech, it just felt near. I looked back and they were still on the road, driving slower now while before that, they were speeding along.

When I stopped in the next light, near Pekaka.. it dawned to me what I have done. Wife, sitting beside me was already to pounce on me. She hates being in the car when I act all angry, who does not. It was dangerous, what I did.. and unfortunately through some bug in my system, it did not dawn to me that I could endanger myself (to hell with other people) by doing what I did.. BEFORE I did it. For the first time, I felt mortal, knees felt wobbly and swear to god I will not do that again. I think I have gotten away with stunts like this far too many times. I think I might have used up my 9 lives.

Wife told me to let it go while I was making the U-turn after the stunt the Vios pulled on me.  She said they probably did not see the car in front, some people just don’t see what is beyond them and reacts to what they see on front.  I am not sure if that “speech” triggered me but after the turn, I felt like teaching them a lesson.

Wife was probably right, those old people in the car probably did not see what is ahead of them and just assumes that I brake for fun, on an empty road, making a U-turn, on an Monday morning (BTW, that is a sarcastic remark).

Am I proud of what I did? No, I was not. To the old couple in the car, drive safe and look forward beyond what is in front of you. But if you did intentionally do what you did, overtaking me from the left on a U-turn, then serves you right and count your blessings. I have counted mine.