I AM writing with utmost disgust at a traffic incident on Monday. I was driving along the road near the Loke Yew flats next to the Tsun Jin school when a car in front of me stopped suddenly in the middle of the road.

After waiting patiently for a few minutes, I honked but the driver refused to move. Of course, cars behind me were furiously honking, some dangerously cutting into the opposite lane.

I got down and courteously knocked on the driver’s window to ask her to move, or even if she needed any help. She, however, refusing to wind down her window, pointed to the school, indicating that she was waiting for her children.

Flabbergasted, I pointed to the jam she was creating. After a few minutes, she moved to park elsewhere, blocking someone else. As I drove past her, she wound down her window and shouted at me. 

I apprehend that the road along the Tsun Jin school is always congested during after-school hours as parents anticipate the joy of driving their children home. However, they have to find other ways to show their affection without inconveniencing others. They could park elsewhere and ask their children to walk a distance, rather than double-park, triple-park or even quadruple-park.

Perhaps parents deem it unsafe for children to walk such a distance, but hey, I used to be in high school too and had to walk miles to the nearest LRT station.

Source: The Sun – March 3, 2010