Tuesday, March 22, 2005
My one day adventure

If you were on the roads today, and you might have seen a black Toyota Corolla weaving in and out of traffic. My instructor took me on a one hour adventure driving through hazardous terrain. Well, not so hard core lah. We drove from CCK to Eunos. Imagine my shock when this was the conversation we exchanged when he picked me up.

Instructor (his name is William) : (warmly) Hello Amylia! Good to see you.

Me: (smiles)

William: Okay girl. You take over.

My first reaction was. HEH? My second lesson only, uncle. But what the heck, I make an excellent driver. (well, almost) I drove like a drunkard. Sometimes swerving into the lanes of others. hehe. But most of the time I had control of the car. William yelled at me for driving at an outrageous speed of 60km/h, when I didn't even feel any adrenaline rush. He said it was far too fast for a learner driver on her second lesson.

Ah.

So, I have another pet peeve. Changing lanes suck. If you are in a vehicle and happen to be at my blind spots, I'm tremendously sorry, I have to bid goodbye to you. I refuse to check my blind spots before I switch lanes. William wasn't too pleased though. I think other drivers on the road must be swearing in their cars.


On the other hand, I am extremely pleased with myself because I drove from CCK to Eunos via Adam Road, Braddel Road..etc and I HORNED AT A TAXI! Taxi drivers are pests. No offence to any taxi drivers reading this, but taxi drivers are the worst drivers on the planet, well at least for Singapore. They don't signal when they change lanes, they don't give way when I have the right of way and most irritatingly, they stop everywhere and anywhere they want. Uncle, please go retake your highway code lah.

I was at Adam Road when a taxi came from a minor road on the left. It was my right of way and that bugger just drove off when I was so freaking near to him. Hello, what are horns for. My moment of glory. Hey, it feels good to horn at a taxi driver, with two L plates affixed in a conspicuous position on your car okay.

Don't play play with learner drivers okay.