Travel is fun and also insightful. Even when you are struck behind a truck ambling along at 40 kmph and refuses to let you pass. So relax and enjoy the view. Look within and discover wisdom.
The decorative painting behind the truck caught my eye and my mind went back to my years in the corporate world. Blow horn. Yeah you need to do it all the time in especially if you are working in a large corporate. Of course you need to do in your home, amongst friends, on Facebook practically everywhere. You even need to tell your Mom how great you were in school that day or how your boss sang paeans about your performance in the meeting.
At times even if there is a sign saying "No Horn" you go ahead and blow it. Your colleague told you about this goof up he is trying to correct and you promptly tell the boss.
Use dipper at night is also great wisdom. With or without dipper you can hardly see anything on the highway at night. There is no street light (or on highways is it called highway light?) and everyone one coming from the opposite will always be on high beam. It like driving blind. Just follow the lights in front. In such conditions if you use dipper, you earn the moral authority to curse other for their lack of road manners. "They buy cars but do not how to behave on the road". You will see this kind of "moral high" every day all around you.
But if you continue to watch the back of the truck for a long time, you are an ass. He will not let you pass from the right. So what needs to be done? Pick your opportunity. Overtake from the left. To move ahead with greater speed you need to do that. While doing so, blow your horn hard and long, use the dipper too and shake your head in disgust at being forced to do something against the rules.
But overtaking is important if you want to move ahead with greater speed on the road or in corporate life. And overtaking from the left is okay and the done thing. Everyone does it. What else can you do when following a truck which refuses to give way even on an empty road? But you know it is not "correct".
There are more people in a hurry now than ever before. But the trucks refuse to move. Some find a way of overtaking correctly, most overtake from the left and move ahead. But some veer too far off to the left and do great damage.
This is were we are. Who is to blame? The truck or those driving behind? I do not know.
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