I was given the finger a few days ago by this sweet looking lady in the next car. At least I can imagine her looking sweet if she wasn’t muttering something in hatred looking at me with her middle finger waving all over the place. If only time would allow, I would’ve told her that she didn’t have to wave so much when she’s flipping someone off. It’s distracting, very inefficient way to say “f- you”. She should have just put her middle finger up, and I’d get that she’s pissed. That aside, I deserved it, both kinds, the wavering and the firm kind. I find myself driving like a very distracted person these past few days. 

Now that I’m trying to remember what went on during the three hours I spend on the road daily, I realized that there were a lot of honking going on and maybe… just maybe, one or two of those honks were actually meant for me. There might have been a few occasions that might have resulted in the honking, if those honks were really meant for me that is. Again, I’ve been a little inattentive these past few days, I might have just imagined it all.

Smart tags are one of the little things in life that I am truly grateful for. Such an amazing device and once used, it will completely change the way you look at the act of paying the road toll. You’d start to imagine what life would be like if there’s a smart tag for everything. And why haven’t everybody converted to Smart Tags yet? It’s mind boggling how some people just refuse to make their life better. “You, yeah you queuing up to manually pay for your toll, it’s time to move on to the fast lane buddy. Be bold, take over your life, live like you were dying! Oh wait, it’s my turn, I’ll get back to you later” as I fumble to find the smart tag I keep on the passenger seat……And then, the worst nightmare all Smart Tag users are afraid off happened, “Tiada Smart Tag” on the screen that is suppose to show your balance. I go “WTF do you mean ‘Tiada Smart Tag’?! Smart Tag’s right here in my….Oh…”. I was stretching out my work ID instead of the Smart Tag (Cue honks).

So it’s monsoon season. It’s raining every evening and traffic gets really bad. You take one hour to get out of a stretch that usually takes 10 minutes. A girl gets bored sometimes…and sleepy. Imagine being stuck in static for hours, what to do hmm, what to do. You look in the rear mirror and its all foggy. So you turn on the back wiper, ahh much better. You look back to the front, no body is moving, the traffic is at a complete stand still. What to do, hmm, what to do. You look at the rear mirror again and smile as you start to realize how much you love back wipers for not making the rear window foggy on a rainy day. You look to your front wiper, ahh, wipers are awesome. But wait, you noticed something. Your back and front wipers do not synchronize! Utter madness, you say. So you turned the back wiper off, counts to the beat of the front wiper and tries to predict when to switch it back on so that the front and back wipers synchronize. Damn it! The back’s 2 seconds too early! So you try again a few times till they both turn left and right like two perfect synchronized swimmers’ legs about to win gold in the Olympics. You give yourself a pat in the back, looked up and there’s a 10-car gap between you and the front car (cue honks). The traffic is finally moving, you thought and the driver behind you is such an asshole for blinding you with his/her high beams, you add further. I might, I dunno, maybe have attempted to make the front and back wipers to synchronize and might have caused traffic to delay longer than it had to. In my defense, it has been raining so much and I needed to make sure my windows don’t get fogged up; one of the most crucial safe-driving practices if you didn’t know.

So I apologize, if it was me you were honking at. To the lady who flipped me off, I really had to make that exit because I don’t know any other route to get to work. Sorry lah.