Of Rain, School, Parents and Their Children!

It is an inappropriate time of the year to be raining non-stop, especially when you consider that it has been pouring for more than a week.  And I say inappropriate because, this is not the usual time of the year for it to be raining endlessly.  The usual rainy season is December.  Not that it did not rain last December, but it has continued to rain ever since then.

Rains seems to bring the worst in people unfortunately.  Not that it does not bring any good, but I would like to focus on the  mentalities of road users when it rains. 

You will notice that when it rains, people want to keep dry, but when it is dry people will wish for rain.   I guess that is human nature.  Apparently, it is also human nature for people to become terrible road users when it rains.  On a rainy school day, parents will drive all the way into school compounds, no matter how small and congested the school area may be, just to make sure that their children do not get wet.  As if their children will not get wet at all.  I notice that some students purposely play in the rain, after their parents have left.

School compounds, already congested with teachers' cars, are made even packed with parents' vehicles.  Most parents, if given half the chance or the accessibility, would even go to the extent of driving their cars or vans or jeeps into their children's classrooms!  Even worse, they hog the road, giving teachers little chance to manoeuvre and park their cars to promptly get into classrooms; in time to teach their children.

Road users also become less patient when it rains.  Again, impatient road users hog the road, criss-crossing from lane to lane, overtaking haphazardly and neglecting to follow general road regulations, eager to reach their destinations.  I suppose, these people think that, if they reach their destinations early by being formula one drivers, their vehicles will not be as wet compared to if they dilly-dally in the rain.

Well, hello!  To these people, you are not only supposed to be courteous on the road when it is bright and shiny, but you are also required to be courteous at all times; come rain, sleet or storm!  If not, get your vehicles off the road and take the public transport!