Happy post, applauding good change.
Since I am always whining about bad driving, I wanted to report some positive changes I am seeing on Ammani roadways. I consider myself an expert, since I spend half my life in the car transporting children and stuff around the city. Really, I should get a job with Aramex if free-lancing dries up.
Hubby has noticed that people are using turn indicators much more often than before. This is a happy thing. It reveals a major shift in mindset: my personal conspiracy theory is that no one REALLY wants to show where they want to go, as someone might take advantage of the knowledge and mess up their road-superiority. The danger would be believing the turn indicator of the oncoming traffic and turning left in front of them when they just forgot it was still on from the last turn.
Some are using headlights in the day time. It really does improve visibility and depth perception when you about to be run down from behind under a tunnel or on airport road, which is happy. We used to do that on long drives, and people would flash and pull us over and gesticulate as if the engine was on fire.
There are no more gridlocked traffic circles. I know this is because there are police there, but at some points I have been afraid they would run the police over, so no gridlock AND no dead police are good things.
There are fewer Maniacal Left Turns now that strategically placed police just hangout and watch the flow go. Heh-heh, and slap those busdrivers. Muhaha.
The police are so busy doing their job now that I haven’t been pulled over for one to ask me “Fa, min wayn inti? Ibn 3ammi fi New Jersey” in months! Yes, believe it or not, this has happened many times. Except that ibn 3ammi could be in Chicago, Los Angeles or Dearborn.
This week there was an accident in the tunnel under Duwwar Al Kilo. Instead of tying up traffic by double parking on both sides of Mecca Street to check for blood random limbs, passers-by actually drove by. Slowly, but motion was visible.
Hope and Change, in action on Amman’s roads.
Closing comment from Um Omar: If you don’t honk, they can’t see you.
Well, since turn signals are optional in Florida, I can understand the frustration.
Before I worked in NYC, I believed that New York traffic was the worst. Turned out, everyone who drove in NY was a professional driver simply from experience.
Yeah, last month I had a teeny tiny accident (Euphimism for “I backed into another car while busy fighting verbally with the woman in the car in front of me) and the policeman who did the kroka came really quickly and was very nice too… I used to hear that they took 2 hours to come sometimes…
Thanks for the citation! Hee hee.
Brian, even there! In California this rule is religiously followed. Maybe if you don’t you get a $500 fine or something?
Ola, salimaat to your saayara! Oooo, that must’ve smarted, getting into an accident while arguing with someone else @@! I bet the policeman was even nicer because he didn’t have to deal with cranky angry men with ego issues. Nice to see you!
Um Omar, hee-hee, this post started out being ALL about your comment! Then I had a talk with hubby and got side-tracked. ADD blogger, I am.
I too wish these rubberneckers would STOP ogling at accidents. Here in Dubai an accident can have a backtail of 20 kilometers.
When you read out loud the title of this post, the situation is crystal clear:
Moron Amman Driving
I am less optimistic than you, Kinzi.
MUDE! You are HILARIOUS!!! Believe me, I never thought of that, but you are RIGHT – “More-On/Moron”!!!! LOL, I hope to see more of you all this summer to imbibe in sharper humor!
Tell ya what, Kinzi…I’ll let you imbibe some of my humor and you bring me some beer to imbibe at the softball field. Deal?