UnAP Drivers

            There are a few little roundabouts which I must go through to get to work each day. As usual as I come to each of these little doughnuts, I stop to allow vehicles already in the doughnut to clear away. As usual these drivers, who unfortunately are not Malaysian-trained, tend to take their time and smile unhurriedly as they make their pathetic little manoeuvres. Unfortunately by now I have acquired some of these habits and as I take in some of these unhurried smiles, I usually smile back suggesting I too am not in a hurry, am ever ready to patiently wait for my turn and be pleasant at it all. In other words: shake off my hurried, impatient aggressive Malaysian driving style.  This morning however, as I approach the last of these little roundabouts, I saw a very unpleasant face staring out of one of these cars trying to go around. It was a young man, obviously very unhappy. Reminds me of Malaysian drivers, except he was a white Caucasian. As I took a second look – voila – he was driving a Waja. This is the first time I have seen a Waja in Melbourne. It is in the ubiquitous (in Malaysia at least) silver colour. I wondered what made him so unhappy – was it the power windows, the steering-wheel mounted radio controls, the cigarette lighter, the wiper or some other faulty accessories all Waja/Proton owner-driver have to deal with. Maybe that’s why Malaysian drivers tend to be unfriendly. It’s the Proton car they have been trained to drive on… The happy drivers are the AP drivers. Drivers with AP faces because they don’t have to use Protons… Anyway, it gave me another sense of déjà vu – imagine that, a first sighting of a Waja in the eastern suburbs of Melbourne.