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Old 07-26-2012, 08:59 PM   #4
Phlkxkbh

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Someone please explain this to me…


I am on Duarte around 7am in the morning and saw a red light so I stop. I am the first one to be stopped and waiting for the light to turn green. Then to my left a 80’s Camry and old truck comes and to the further right few cars appears to be doing same thing as well. They ignore the red light and go avoiding couple of crossing traffics along the way. About 5 seconds later I find them going 50km or less on Duarte. Meanwhile I am in a hurry and I need to go 110-120 so I can be at my work around 7:15 picking up couple of passengers along the way. I want to be in my office little early so I can read some news and prepare today’s work. So I fellow two cars seems like going soooooo slow at matching speed of 50km or less, I honked and high beamed and nothing. They just ignore it all. It feels like this is happens to me every day with different cars. Tell me what are they trying to do here? What do they get out of passing me on the red lights risking their life like that, just to be caught up by me and other cars in less than a mile? To those understand DR motorists better please shed some light on to this…
Personally I don't think you can explain this behavior 100%.
Some say it is machismo (also called a feeling of superiority) some say it is just the complete lack of patience.
To describe traffic (and with traffic I also mean the use of shopping-carts in the supermarket) in the DR is impossible and the opposite of logic. You can not explain why they stop in the middle of the road to talk with each other about absolutely nothing (the same thing in the supermarket) , you can not explain why they can not wait for a traffic-light or anything else (I wish they had the same eagerness when they are working).
You can not explain why they overtake (with 5km/h more speed) in a curve or somewhere where it is impossible to overtake another car...

It's one of the mysteries of life but go with the flow and just enjoy this stupidity; at least that is what I (try to) do every time.
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