Rolling in the road

This happens in South Africa as well, but not really in this particular way, and not nearly as often as in Korea.

Sometimes I stop at a traffic light and I’m at the front of the pack. Usually there will be more than one lane, so there will be a car next to me. This car will then be my short term entertainment/mystery as it either slowly creeps forward (learn some muscle control, dude) or does what I can only call “little hops”, almost as if the driver is trying to anticipate the changing of the light.

I have seen people do these hops until they are almost in the middle of the intersection. I have even see people basically cross the intersection and for no apparent reason just stand and wait on the other side for the light to change.

I always wonder what goes through these people’s minds when they are doing this. All I can imagine is…

Surprisingly often you will see these very same people effectively forget to drive when the light does eventually change. They creep forward, leaving me a full car length behind, but then, when the light changes, I start moving, and soon I will be looking at them in my mirror, still standing. I wonder if the music on their radio changes when the light changes. Maybe to something like this?

I suppose we should not ask questions about the actions of stupid drivers.