The criteria to decide someone as idiot are:
- Who will ride their vehicles on the wrong way.
- Who wont give signal while taking turn.
- Who will jump traffic signals.
- Who unnecessarily honks when the signal turns green.
- Who will stop their vehicle beyond the stop line and stand on the pedestrian crossing. In one signal(Bommanahalli signal, Bangalore), I found around 100 such idiots.
- Who wont give any signal while changing the lane.
- Who will go in the wrong lane. When someone has to go straight but they will go in the other lane and create problems for other people.
- Who will wear helmet only for the sake of traffic constable.
- Who won't honk or ring the bell while taking turns.
- A single person driving car, who hates traffic jams. They never think they are the reason for traffic jam. They will occupy four times more space than a Motor biker and six times more space than a cyclist.
- Bikers who went on the left side of 'city bus' in a bus stop, which created trouble for bus commuters.
- People who didn't turned off their engines even in 180 seconds signal.
I also consider myself as idiot when I do any of these mistakes. Earlier I was not following traffic rules seriously. But one incident changed my thinking. It taught me how important to follow rules and keep yourself and others secure on the road.
A big IDIOT who hit a young couple who stopped their bike immediately after the signal turned RED. A cab driver on the process of jumping signal did the accident and both husband & wife died in a couple of days. The two small kids aged less than 10 years lost their parents and cab driver gained just THREE MINUTES of time by jumping that signal. A happy family became no family, just for those three minutes.
I hope readers of my blog won't behave like idiots. A little time at the traffic signal is not worth of a life. Drive safe. Live happily.
