Last night as I was barrelling down the road a car pulled onto the road ahead of me. There might of been 15m of open space between my car and the vehicle in front of me. Given that I was travelling in a 50kmh zone, that open space vanished quickly. I blew my horn to alert the other driver but they were oblivious to the incoming danger. By the time they started to accelerate, I was about a metre off their back bumper.
The place of business they had pulled out of was a pachinko and slot machine parlour. As things would have it, the place where they turned off the road was at a slot machine parlour. Yes, I was on the tail of a gambler drifting from one gambling establishment to another...which was in line with how they gambled on pulling into a small gap between vehicles travelling at full speed.
The above isn't my first incident of annoyance with people driving to pachinko or slot machine establishments. It may be just me but they seemed extremely focused on where their going and pay a little less attention to the traffic around them than they ought to. Another classic example, they'll be driving along the road 10kmh below the speed limit until they read their destination...start their turn into the parking lot and then turn on their turn signal. Actually, that is quite a common occurrence regardless of the drivers' destinations....
Enjoy your pop rocks, sir.
15 years ago
No comments:
Post a Comment