Monkey on Streets
I couldn’t help noticing how chaos the traffic situation in this city. If you are a foreigner coming to visit this country, I bet you wouldn’t last 5 minutes on the road. How come?
First, when you cross one-way street, you might look at vehicles coming from, say, your left. But not here, you have to look both ways. Bikers, sometimes public van drive on one-way street in the opposite direction. And, sometimes, they drive at pretty high speed.
Second, you think green light means go. But, the other corner thinks the road is his. So, you step on the gas and you hit the no-brain biker to the ground and he’ll wave his punch in the air to you. That is, if he’s alive. If he doesn’t, or at least lose conciousneess, you better step on the gas to the floor if you want to save your neck from the surrounding people who might want to burn you alive for causing such accident.
Third, you drive on the correct lane. But wait, what’s that? There’s a bike coming to your direction? He doesn’t ride on his lane? You didn’t know? The other lane is jammed. Even bikes can’t go through. So, the bikers and the others that follow have this creative idea: hey, the opposite-direction lane is not jammed, we should ride on that lane. What. You think you can be smart by scolding them? Telling them that what they’re doing is wrong? You’d be surprised of how they respond.
The police? What would you expect them to do? They’re the ones who ride their motorbike on the fast lane where it’s supposed to be for 4-wheelers only. They’re the ones who ride their bike on pay highway where it’s supposed to be for 4-wheelers and more.
Sad as it may seem, I always despise those who cannot respect the law. I myself ride a motorbike. But, I stop at the red lights and start to squeeze the gas on green lights. I don’t ride on the wrong direction lane. But, it seems I’m 1 in a million here. Then this thought comes to me. If everybody does it, what makes something is right? Have I done the right thing? I guess it’s a jungle out there. I see monkeys who like doing things the way they like doing it.
