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3 irresponsible drivers in 1 day!!!

In the morning on my way to work, from CTE, turning into PIE, near Wampoh. I was turning into the PIE minding my own business (still on the extreme left lane) when this Lorry (Usually carrying sand) started to make a lane switch towards mine (While I was still next to him). I had to "blast" my horns to try to make him notice that there is a vehicle on his left. But he juz kept coming, I cannot remember when I made my bike pick up like that to avoid such a situation.

Then on my way to a friend's home in dover from Jurong East, was when I met the first...

Best of all, he wasn't driving a car... or a lorry... but a TIBS bus.
@ about 7:05pm while traveling alongside the MRT tracks somewhere near Clementi MRT. I saw this bus driver using his phone while he is driving. My goodness... I was riding along side next to him and honked till he saw me. Then he hung up and gave me the... what did I do look...

I am juz wondering... why didn't the passengers tell him to stop?

Anyway, along my way back... somewhere near Upper Serangoon Road...
The next incident. This time, it was a cab driver.
My side of the road was 3 lanes, well usually, I would be traveling on the extreme left but there was a car there so I had to ride on the middle lane.

Anyway I noticed a car from the opposite direction was trying to make a U turn into my side of the road and normally I would flash the high beam a couple of times to tell / show the driver that "I am approaching"...
But many a Singapore car driver seems to have this "Herd" mentality even in driving and well... you guessed it... A cab driver (SHB 54XX) casually decided to "follow the herd" and join the crowd. I had to hit the breaks and honk! luckily he heard the honk and made a quick tight turn and managed to "get" into the extreme right lane on my side of the road (Quite amazing actually, but reckless none the less).

@ the next junction, I made a rough calculation and stopped where I guess he would be stopping. (Even though it meant leaving a huge gap between me and the car in the front, the cars behind me did not "say" anything cos they prob saw what happened) He was supposed to come into directly to my left... but I guess he knew he was @ fault and stopped quite a distance where he was supposed to be stopping.
:D
Funny how car drivers doesn't feel that "Big" after an incident like this.

I turned my head around and looked @ him and signaled him to come forward.
(I wasn't about to start a fight but I wanted to make sure that he knows what he did wrong.) He looked sheepishly @ me, winded down the window & the first thing he said was "Sorry".... in Hokkien

So I replied in Hokkien "Please be more careful in the future"
Pretended to look @ his number plate & my watch and rode off.
(Juz wanted to give him a little scare, dun think I will report this case anyway)
:D

So.... like in one of my previous post, dun be afraid to use your horns to avoid danger. But also remember not to be "trigger happy" la.
:)

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