Police Escort

Imagine this situation:


You are leisurely driving home after a hard day work, not much traffic on the road, listening to some good music from the radio, planning to quickly reach home to relax WHEN SUDDENLY a police bike came blaring its loud siren and screaming thru its speaker, asking you to move out of the way. The moment you move away, a convoy of luxury cars would zoom by, leaving a trail of dust for you. I'm sure most of us would have encountered such scenario. I had one experience recently and I used to get really irritated by it, especially during traffic jams, when you have to quickly manoeuvre your car out of the way. Thinking rationally, I should not be irritated because





Reason 1

Most of these people are VIPs or VVIPs of the country and they are the rich and powerful. Therefore time is extra valuable for these people. Every second spent is money opportunity lost. Example, it might be some minister rushing to a meeting to build more highways, to build more tolls and to award contracts. Of course they need to be quick. There are big money involved.



Reason 2

It is also a faster way to check out our lovely highways, thus reassuring themselves on a good job done. Having more assurance, its time to build more highways, award more contracts and to justify more toll increase.






Reason 3

We Malaysians love the rush hours. There is a camaraderie among the drivers during the long traffic jam. We care about the each other's family, especially our mother. Its a norm to see drivers screaming at each other asking about the welfare of our mothers. The VIPs are missing out on this, as they are being escorted through our daily traffic jam. What a waste.




Next time you see these VIPs being escorted, just moved out of the way and remember the 3 reasons above.