"ohh, it must a woman again"

sound familiar?

it was a normal monday evening whereby i had to stay back for band til about 6.30pm. who doesnt wish to go home at such a late hour (for me)? especially when theres school the next morning at 7am again. so there we set off from the gates of our school back home, sending roxanne to her bus-stop as well.

we slowly approached one of the road divisions, turning into the branch and to another road. then a car came by and was trying to cut into queue, which we have already been waiting for a long time with the other tens of cars behind. well, obviously this wasnt our first encounter. my mother had constantly been complaining about this situation and insists on tapping this down on her mobile phone so that we could email it in to the government officials incharge of roads.

not only did the car try to squeeze into the queue, the lady on board, who was sitting on passenger seat next to the driver's glared at my mother, trying to signal to her to let them squeeze in. my mother, who had already been angered by several of these situations, frowned and complained about them to roxanne and i. perhaps from the lady's view, it would appear as if my mother was scolding them since they could not hear whatever my mum had said through the sealed window.

in the end, my mother had let them squeeze in as they had persistently managed to stick the head of their car in front of ours. angered, my mum started to complain to us.

for some reason, we skipped from that issue to the fact that men often looked down on women drivers. its not like i am criticizing the male species, or stereo-typing all the males. but there is something i have to highlight on. even though we are living in the era of equality among men and women, some people still have the mentality that they are more capable then women. and when it comes to driving, its always "whos that driver? must a woman, so slow!", "must be a woman, so lousy".

all right, fine. we are perhaps slightly more calm when driving, reducing the possibility of us getting into a car accident. being slightly more reserved during parking, we dont wish to crash into any neighbouring cars. being slightly shorter and not able to see from the height unlike most men when parking.

being considerate about the safety of people around us when driving maybe like a portion of men in the country.

but hey! "how can she cut into the queue? we've been waiting here for so long!", "what sort of driver is she, fancy instruding into the line of cars?" oh.. how perfect, its our fault again. its not like you dont do that. im sure most of you had experienced this before, especially when you have a sibling who never gets blamed for their mistakes. this is what it feels!

its just like the simple concept of cutting a recess queue (like in school), you can scold the people who cut queue all day, but when you are the one cutting queue, and everyone behind is unhappy, would you feel ashamed? you, who scold the people that cut queue. and you, who cut other people's queue.

a simple conclusion: humans are self-centered, what more can i say?

its sometimes sad to think about things like that. its things like these that degrades the human species.

what is the most savage, dispicable and dangerous creatures?
i would say, human beings.

to think im one.