You'd think I would have seen everything and that I would have come to to the end of my litany of complaints about local drivers and pedestrians and cyclists, but some local doofus found a new way to be selfish on the road.
One morning, I was returning to Casa K after having dropped my son off at school and I came to a red light where ahead of me, in the left of two straight-ahead lanes, was a three-wheeled motorized vehicle and ahead of it was a long black sedan. As I came to a stop, I noticed that the sedan's driver had turned on the four-way blinkers. I wasn't sure what was going on and when the lights turned green, the car didn't move. This caused a cacophony of horn-blowing from the drivers behind me, all of whom quickly -- much more quickly than me -- changed into the right-hand lane to get around the sedan. When I was finally able to get in the right lane, the light had turned red. I was then beside the black sedan and I eagerly looked at the driver to see if it was a male or female, if it showed the obvious facial and skull features of a mental incompetent, and what he or she was doing. I saw a forty-ish looking man talking on his cell phone. He obviously figured that putting on his four-ways took the curse of what was a very inconsiderate act. I honked at the moron and gave him the finger. He continuing looking inscrutable.
Another anecdote to add to the hundreds I have and thousands that other expatriates in China have about the supreme lack of consideration the locals have for others as they go about their way during the day.
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