As forecast it was bitterly cold the other morning. The car should have taken ages to defrost but for some strange reason as cold as it was, there was no deep freeze. But the ground was frozen and the gauge showed -4 degrees at the 0730 pre-swim warm up. With this in mind I have to ask myself why the crazy young driver was overtaking a van while driving towards me on the main road running through the housing estate of Waunfawr? What a fool, I thought to myself as I applied my brakes carefully. Now careful is my middle name, which is a good job, because at -4 degrees you have to be careful. Once you slide it’s usually the other person that you kill.
Although the -4 degrees at 0730 didn’t come as a surprise, the -2 degrees post swim drive home was a big surprise. But not as big as a surprise as the idiots who were walking in the road instead of on the pavement opposite. I mean, it’s not as if the road had been gritted or that the pavement was really icy. I had to pause and think; “does cold weather bring out the silliness in people?” What I should have considered was “does the cold weather also make a fool aggressive?”
I popped out of a junction and with the road clear to the right hand side and took up a central position ready to pop into a gap in the flow of traffic coming from the left. But the next youngster of the day who had moved fast from the junction on the right, now started hitting their car horn and making aggressive gestures at me. Now why on earth would you do that?
Yes, I know that you life is important and that you want to get to where you are going because if you don’t make it in the next thirty seconds then you will die, but hey ho missy, just let the guy turn his car without the need for aggression. No, please save the nastiness for when you are at home with your family and partner. Because in my world, aggressive drivers, are simply aggressive people. Nasty when driving; nasty in life.
I almost immediately move off with the nasty young girl, well I think that it was a girl, having been held up by all of five seconds and still barbing. Her delay was brought about due to her speed, and her aggression was brought about for her desire for more speed. I wonder if she is an uninsured driver? Fools come as no surprise and aggressive nasty little people seem to be a thing brought about by today’s society. However the continual cold weather throughout that day came as a big surprise.
It all began with the -4 degrees that led to foolishness, then the -2 degrees and the nastiness and at the end of the day it was still only 0 degree. Although by then I had enjoyed separately a chat with five friends and a lovely coffee in Costa. So was it a day of ‘crazy icicles’ and is there a correlation between temperature and temper? I don’t really know if there is a correlation, but I do hope that a lot of people take a hot water bottle to be bed with them tonight and start to warm up. Oh, and I hope that the 0740 fool is caught and given a few good points before someone is hurt or killed, and that the 0900 aggressor can’t start her car tomorrow or the rest of the week, oh and next week as well. Now that would be justice, especially if we can also get those idiots to walk on the pavement.
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