Being stuck in traffic
sucks.
No one
likes it. My annoyance quickly
builds when I’m driving and traffic suddenly starts to slow down (sometimes to a
stopping point); when this happens, I’ll crane my head to see what the hold up is
because I find it
especially
irritating if I can’t tell
why
there’s heavy traffic. If I see there’s a traffic accident, then I know there’s
a valid reason for the slow traffic and I can be a bit more patient. However,
sometimes there’s
no apparent reason.
It’s
just congestion and there’s just
too many cars and not enough road for everyone to share. And while both of
these situations annoy me
greatly,
one thing annoys me even more: people being inconsiderate and
causing traffic to back up.
Not long ago I was driving during rush hour on fairly busy
roads, and I finally got passed a particularly busy intersection, but then
quickly had to stop because the cars in front of me had stopped. I strained to
see what the hold up was and I found the perpetrator: a car had decided to stop
in the middle of the road to let out a passenger. The area in question may have
been a low speed zone, but that didn’t mean going zero speed was appropriate.
This whole situation irritated me greatly because that stopped car could have easily gone around the corner (a mere ten feet away) and let their
passenger off without blocking any traffic.
It was just so inconsiderate. I was
mad for the people behind me, waiting
at the green light to move passed the intersection and onto the road that they weren’t
able to get onto.
I mean how hard is
it to realize that you’re inconveniencing everyone else? A little common sense,
that’s all you need. It only takes a bit
of self-awareness to know that traffic is heavy and maybe I should move my car out of the way of these other cars. [Pause.]
But apparently common sense isn’t a quality that everyone has. [Sigh.]
