Manners maketh man . . . and woman
Our local community Facebook group published two pleas recently.
The first was from the driver of a funeral hearse. Making its stately way to the crematorium, it was overtaken by a driver so impatient that he or she felt the need to sound the car’s horn. It’s possible that the car driver had an emergency and needed to reach his/her. destination post haste, but although hearses proceed at a slower speed than most other road users, they are not moving so slowly that they hold up following traffic to any great degree.
If there is to be a large procession of mourners’ cars, which can cause delays, the police issue warning notices so that people can find alternative routes. That doesn’t happen very often, and in this case, there were only two cars. The funeral director was upset, and asked for respect to be shown, but I imagine the mourners were even more distressed.
The second plea came from a cyclist who was nearly mown down by a huge SUV heading straight for her as it closely overtook three cyclists on the opposite side of the road. The shaken cyclist asked for awareness of other road users. Again, taking a charitable view, possibly the driver had an emergency. Perhaps drivers of super-sized vehicles on our narrow, twisting roads forget what they are driving, or maybe they think everyone else should just get out of the way, or preferably, not use the roads at all.
What is happening to commonsense, responsibility, and respect?
