We have the following piece of news in Evenimentul Zilei [The Event of the Day]: Chain accidents and dozens of crashed cars on the highways (here, in Romanian). Obviously, the geographical placement of Romania, a plot from the weather, the bad state of the highway etc. are at fault. I want to see somwhere, written down black on white, that the fault belongs to the Romanian race drivers. I want them put against a wall and see their heads banged against the asphalt until they learn that winter really isn’t like summer and that summer is not like a Formula 1 circuit and that size of the brain is in inverse proportion to the weight of the foot.
I am sick of hearing that no one, nowehere, never is guilty of anything. Only the government, the weather, the traitorous Westerners, the people who left to work abroad, the suckers who stayed and work here, all the saints in the calendar and whatever you want to add to the list. As long as it’s something absolutely generic. No one never is guilty, only the “bad guys”.
Being a poor boy living on the fringe of this pseudo-metropolis, I don’t know much. But I have driven in my life and every time I ran into a patch of fog, slowing down to admire it (what other reason could I have?), I was overtaken by all sorts of brave people driving at baffling speed. These are the idiots who cause accidents. Usually… But it’s not their fault… Poor them…
This time we were lucky. No one was harmed… But next time one of us might be the unlucky fellow to end up under a set of merciless wheels because of some cretins. And no one can make them civilized: not the law, not the police, not the government not the Holy Ghost. Maybe just the whip.
Original post: here (RO).
Dan is a 27 year-old from Bucharest who lives to read, write, take phots and discover the new and the old.