Driving & the Average Malaysian: Parking Habits

We Malaysians have a knack of pissing off others when we are behind the wheel. We sure do have an ability to do whatever we want, both on the road and when we are not.

I note with dismay some of our bad habits:

1) We love to Double Park (and on occasions, Triple Park).

2) We love to drop people off at road shoulders, without signaling others on the road of our intention to make a stop.

3) We love to park our cars in lots not meant for us – i.e. commandeering the lots meant for disabled or less able and/or for families with baby strollers, or even the registered lots.

4) We take more than one lot for our vehicles, just because we are too preoccupied with parking our cars right in the middle of the designated box.

And the owner of this car proves my argument in points number 3 & 4!

He or She is most probably mentally 'cacat' to park in this spot in this manner! 

5) We park at roadsides with the single solid white or yellow lines on the road shoulders

6) We park at roadsides near our favourite haunts (fill in your choice of club, shopping mall, building, etc) despite the existence of a voluminous covered or non-covered charged parking lot nearby.

7) We stop at road shoulders in the highway/expressway without any real emergency to do so.

8) We stop at areas despite the no parking sign.

9) We receive such joy when we quickly zoom in an empty lot, never mind the fact that somebody may have already been waiting patiently for the exact spot to clear.

And of course there would be more parking offenses to be found! Drat!