Bad Drivers Should Apologize

Picture this: I was driving just under the speed limit at 55km/h, transporting my mother and our dinner back to our home, aside the beach and its silky water, motionless in the moonlight. 

All of the sudden, a sedan packed with passengers decides to pull out right in front of my car, which, mind you, has the potential to iron flat all in its path, without any sort of indication nor an indicator for that matter, and drive at approximately 30km/h, not taking into consideration that there are cars out there that are outdated and have equally outdated brakes that work like faulty brakes in rainy weather even on dry days - I was the owner of such a car, hence my great driving skills and my knowledge on the performance of other cars on the road. Thankfully, I managed to brake in time so as to not slam into his rear, crushing the spines of his two daughters who have their fresh fish and chips on their minds and ironically not their lives. 

And so I honked the horn. I honked it and held it and he swerved right off the road and back into the side lane almost crashing into the parked cars. My car has a very loud horn and because he did not bother to check if there were any cars behind him before pulling out he was twice as frightened at the loudness of it. He came to a halt and in the midst of my elaborate French speaking, held up both of his hands and screamed apologies. It was quite the juxtaposition. Seeing as I took into consderation my power over him as a female citizen in that if I hit him had I gotten out of the car he could not hit me back and being the now civilised person that I am, I decided to drive off, still speaking in the language of Parisian drains. 

"Calm down," my mother managed to say, in a calmed manner herself - usually this is quite the opposite. "He apologised," she continued, attempting to reason with me. After switching back to my fluent tongue I replied, "yes he did, but he apologised to the wrong person." I explained to my mother that in actuality, other than apologising to me for the fact that he should not have his driver's license, he should apologize firstly to his passengers for almost prematurely ending their lives or their potentials to live on the way that they currently do. In fact, every bad driver has constant apologising to do. Had this been a law, we would have more apologies being sent out daily on our roads than the apologies Kevin Rudd sent out in his political lifetime. That is a lot of apologising. 

People need to honestly pay extra attention on the road. I can have music blaring and drive while singing, heck I could even be juggling at the same time, and I could still pay better attention than most drivers out there. Tame yourself in order to tame your mechanical wagons.