I don't know if it's the heat or something in the water but lately I've noticed that people are really becoming impatient and downright dangerous again on the roads.
Didn't it seem like things were a bit calm traffic wise for a couple of months there?
Maybe I was just lucky but it seems my luck has run out and I'm all on the defensive again.
Defensive when I'm driving and defensive when I'm walking and I do walk a lot.
I'm one of those people who would rather park far away from the shop entrance and walk then circle around and around trying to get a closer space. And obviously I walk Jellybean a lot. She is a high energy girl.
But I notice when I walk that people in cars either don't see me or don't give a shit that I'm crossing the road or walking in the road because there's no sidewalks.
Like for example if I cross the street and a car turns the corner, I can literally hear them accelerate as they move towards me. Like, do you want to run me over? I don't get it. What if I tripped? Or what if I just spazed out and fell down?
Or if I'm at Lulu and I have to cross like 3 or 4 little roads in the parking lot and people just pretend they don't see you or are too lazy to turn their heads, I don't know what's going on in these peoples minds.
Or even when I see people crossing busy roads and no one will come to a complete stop to let the person cross. I know pedestrians don't exactly have the right of way here like they do in other more civilized countries but isn't there a moral code being broken?
It's hot outside, like really, really hot and people in cars have air conditioning and the poor person on the street corner trying to cross is literally baking in the heat so why can't the people in the cars see that and give the poor bastard a break?
I think that's what disappoints me the most, the selfishness of the AC'd car drivers. Most of the people walking around do so because they either can't afford a car, can't afford their license or can't afford a taxi, so why can't we all just give them the dignity of stopping to let them cross when we have a stop sign and are supposed to stop anyway? I say we, but I do, so really I mean you people, you people who probably won't read this anyway.
What also disappoints me is when you're crossing a street and you get about halfway and a car pulls up and even if you took 2 more steps they would hit you and so you then have to make an abrupt right turn to walk around the car which is now blocking your path and go behind it. I hate that so much!
I literally hate that the common view seems to be that if you aren't in a car, you are dirt, or maybe even you shouldn't exist.
Got some rest...now for the back story.
17 hours ago
3 comments:
Sorry to hear that you have had such shitty experiences. If it makes you feel any better it isn’t just the pedestrians who don't get a break from drivers. I am often in a situation where another car would purposely change lanes/block off my exit/drive on the opposite lane or not let me pass when I am reversing my car. I think people are just rude. Generally. Everyone thinks they own the road...
I hear you. I do stop whenever I see peds. waiting to cross.
The funny thing is once I stop to let the peds. cross, idiots behind me start honking and flashing lights like theres no tommorow, and then when they overtake me further down the road, I get that 'whoth you doo, why you sthoap four beebool'? stare from the drivers. Our Omani mates specially.
One expat lady once asked me: "is there any road in Oman where i can cross without getting run over?", obviously, she's a newbie
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