Road Hogs

It is not surprising that there is such a high accident rate and death toll on the road between King Williams Town and Grahamstown, when you experience first hand the bad driving on that road.

Here we have two for the price of one. The first feels obliged to travel at 60 kph on a main road, when the car obviously has the capability of going faster. It make one wonder whether the driver lacks confidence or is just unlicenced.

The second, a Government vehicle, has no qualms about overtaking on a barrier line and putting the lives of other motorists at risk.

947 FAB EC please note that if you overtake us on a barrier line you will be photographed.

Driving me mad #2

This is just to show that it is not only the new cars with personalised number plates that park badly. These were shot with my cell phone at a local shopping centre, so the quality is not so great, but it does paint the picture.

This is not angled parking.



This heap of scrap should not even be on the roads.




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Novel substitute for a handbrake - at the risk of how many lives though!
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Driving me mad

I have a theory that you can tell a lot about the character of a person by the way they park their car.

Picture this scenario. You arrive at the shopping centre parking lot and it is full. You drive up and down the aisles and eventually, with great delight you spot an empty parking bay. You surge forward, to get there before any other driver with similar ideas, carefully avoiding shoppers and their trolleys. When you arrive your hopes are dashed, because some peanut has parked across the line and is effectively taking up two parking bays. And so the search continues........ Or, what I like to do if there is still enough space to squeeze in, is to park as close to the offending car as possible, so that the driver has to climb in through the passenger door.

What is it about such drivers? Are they incapable of seeing that they are occupying two parking bays? Or is it just plain selfishness? Add personalised number plates to the equation......well, what more can I say........I rest my case. ...