19th September 2010.
Karachi-
"Lets go eat and Jan's Broast!" was the stroke of genius on my friends part. Boat Basin is usually easy enough to navigate, even with the rush; we drove towards Jan's broast, salivating at the thought of the crispy chicken and white sauce; all was going well, until one van driver, decided to come the wrong way, and block about 5 other cars; of course, others followed in his enlightened footsteps, and voila, a traffic jam.
Now what really gets my goat about traffic jams, is that people seem to pass this invisible line, where they are stripped of any form of intelligence they may have had, and decide that they will just inch forward into any available space, making the jam tighter and more impossible. The initial culprit, the van driver, refused to reverse out. Would you believe that our car was the only one which backed into a parking spot on the side, and my friends were the only people trying to clear out the jam?
To make matters even more peachy, the sound of a police siren began to make its way towards us; "oh they've come to act important I thought." I was wrong; they were only trying to make way through the traffic jam, so they could get to the other side. I mentally kicked their siren in, threw them out of the car, and bashed it into a wall. Our wonderful policemen were not trying to help, they just wanted to blast their siren at the jam, hoping it would move just for them. They only added to the problem.
The rage I felt kept building; I could see it so clearly, it was so obvious. What was it exactly that separated me from the man who refused to think ahead; why did he not see, that if he practiced a little patience, if all of them were just patient for a few seconds, none of this would have happened, and even if it had, it would have been cleared up much faster. Was it education? Was it the way I was raised? What was it that allowed me to see something that 20 other people couldn't, and why could it not be spread to the masses. I refuse to believe that it is that difficult for our government to educate our police force about this common sense and consideration; Ah, but there lies the problem; the Government. Our government and administration lacks this ability to see what I saw that day.
I find it hard to comprehend; either the Government officials lack common sense, or they want the country to remain chaotic, to distract the people from what the Government is doing. It is enraging either way; isn't there something that can be done?
