One reason why Ling often asks if it\u2019d be better if she drives lies in her belief that driving is a tremendously stressful experience for me. How\u2019s that? Well, I curse when I drive. Not just a bit, but a lot.<\/p>\n
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I should clarify on that too. The cusses are never vulgar. No expletives, no F words, no no nothing of that sort. I\u2019m not foul-mouthed by character. Rather, it\u2019s usually cusses of the colorful sort whenever I get peeved by something I see on the road.<\/p>\n
Say for instance, while turning into the carpark at Compass Point<\/a> last evening, there was this fellow with punk hair smoking and standing at the driveway with his foot protruding that a car could have run over if it\u2019d been near the ledge. He got a \u201cI hope he chokes on that cigarette!!\u201d Or the taxi-driver who swerved from lane to lane without signaling just to get 2 metres ahead of the other vehicle. For him, \u201cI hope he bangs into a tree!!\u201d Or the bengster who winds down his vehicle window and spits his puddle out: \u201cI hope he gets reincarnated as a cockroach!!!\u201d<\/p>\n Heck, I guess I\u2019m just unforgiving to my fellow drivers when they do rude things on the road. Come to think of it, the only objects that don\u2019t get those cusses are things that aren\u2019t human. Like the occasional dog running along the road around the Little India area when we drive to the early morning services at Wesley<\/a>. Or the birds that we have to swerve to avoid running over every early morning while maneuvering into my workplace’s carpark. Those little darlings. We\u2019d happily drive around them.<\/p>\n Ling always gets distressed when I cuss. Her usual rejoinder to those cusses would be: \u201cDarling, you shouldn\u2019t return evil for evil, ok?\u201d Thing is, I\u2019m not agitated. Of course I don\u2019t hope for the person to choke on his cigarette, or bang his car into a tree (though I do think on occasion some people really should be reincarnated as cockroaches). Cussing colorfully and like a pirate on the Singapore road, for me at least, is just half therapeutic for the release. The other half, it\u2019s just plain fun to see Ling\u2019s responses.:)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" One reason why Ling often asks if it\u2019d be better if she drives lies in her belief that driving is a tremendously stressful experience for me. How\u2019s that? Well, I curse when I drive. Not just a bit, but a<\/p>\n