Senior moment or TIA?
Posted: Tue Apr 20, 2021 6:46 am
On my way home from the George Mall recently, belting west down the N2. I use my GPS as the speed guide because my car's speedometer is set to run higher than actual. At the legal 120kph, it shows 130. Seems to be endemic as everyone else (almost) is driving slower and (I am sure) they believe they are doing 120.
Anyway, this day, all the damn slow cars were in the wrong lane. I came up behind the first of them with my headlights on expecting them to get the hint. But they resolutely stayed in the wrong lane. I flashed my headlights several times. Nothing. So I used the wrong lane to overtake (which is legal but why should I have to move over for a snail who doesn't bother to use a GPS to find out he's a snail?).
This happened three more times with three more slow vehicles in the wrong lane. An epidemic. It wasn't until I reached some road works where traffic had slowed considerably and a line had formed that I realized that, for whatever reason, all the drivers I'd been cursing and lighting up were driving quite nicely in the left lane as they are supposed to do here.
They must have been pissed off that some lunatic was trying to overtake them in the non-overtaking lane and then getting angry at having to use the proper lane to go past them.
I never, ever, forget that we drive on the left here. Never go the wrong way round a traffic circle. The only explanation I can come up with is a TIA. Or I'm going gaga.
Anyway, this day, all the damn slow cars were in the wrong lane. I came up behind the first of them with my headlights on expecting them to get the hint. But they resolutely stayed in the wrong lane. I flashed my headlights several times. Nothing. So I used the wrong lane to overtake (which is legal but why should I have to move over for a snail who doesn't bother to use a GPS to find out he's a snail?).
This happened three more times with three more slow vehicles in the wrong lane. An epidemic. It wasn't until I reached some road works where traffic had slowed considerably and a line had formed that I realized that, for whatever reason, all the drivers I'd been cursing and lighting up were driving quite nicely in the left lane as they are supposed to do here.
They must have been pissed off that some lunatic was trying to overtake them in the non-overtaking lane and then getting angry at having to use the proper lane to go past them.
I never, ever, forget that we drive on the left here. Never go the wrong way round a traffic circle. The only explanation I can come up with is a TIA. Or I'm going gaga.