She claims that people of short stature are menacing behind the wheels. She believes they are the most disrespectful and dangerous of dangerous drivers. Although I try my very best not to be openly judgemental, I actually agree with her on this.
If you think I sound blatantly insulting or offensive, think again.
For one thing, it's not a difficult theory to test out. Gear up and take a slow, leisurely drive along your favorite stretch of road. If you happen to have the misfortune of encountering a driver that's a bit cuckoo, take one quick glance at him and most often than not you'd notice that he's tiny/short/small. (Oh yeah, i forgot to mention, Mom's theory only applies to guy drivers).
Mom's reasoning for this phenomena is simple - it's all psychological!!
Guys who are physically lacking in height usually feel that they have no control or power at the work place, among friends etc etc (or so she says). But ahh, behind the wheels they feel big and great and whatever it is they lack in physicality is compensated by showing off their strut on the runway that is the city streets.
"The shorter they are," she maintains, "the bigger their ego and the worse they are on the road."
In fact, she says, if they were in any position of power, they'd exercise it to the extremes just to show how 'big' they are in these areas where they feel they have much control over (anything other than their physique, apparently).
Mom is so convinced with her hypothesis that she declares rather brazenly that if she were to write a paper on it, she'd be earning a PhD by now.
LOL. My mom can come up with the silliest, funniest and most outrageous theories sometimes (eg: Nepal got its name from the Malay spelling of apples. Epal = (N)epal. N as in an infinite number of apples. Get it??). But this whole 'short-driver-horrible-driving' theory is, I gotta hand it to her, definitely one of her best yet.
And the funny part is that we all totally agree with her.
So you see, the consensus in our family right now - thanks to Mommy dearie - is that height (or rather, the lack of it) plays a huge role in how men drive.
Case closed!
p/s: Mom, I wrote the paper. Now, where's my doctorate? =P
6 comments:
haha, LOL this one post makes me laugh. and silently i've always believe so, too. only i'd never voice it out loud - tho sometimes i care not of how people feel. hehe.
keep writing!
p/s: the nina and ig story i'm writing has advanced a few chapters since you last commented. =) drop by to catch up, k?
*masih ketawa dgn teori mak kamu*
It explains why Asian fail to win F1, short drivers. Takuma Sato (japan) - 160cm. Narain Karthikeyan (india) - 168cm. Schumacher (german) - 174cm.
Hahaha. I had a good laugh! Thanks ;)
Just drop by to say hi. I hasn't visited this blog for quite sometimes. Now I'm back.
Max J. Potter - Will do, definitely! =)
Costanzo - Welcome back, you mysterious stranger~~(I still think i hv a very good idea who u are tho)
so true,not just driving but many other stuff too!uh ur paper truly makes sense of how my friends act around..lol
wow.. you must have a lot of short friends? hehe.. just kidding =)
p/s: you still owe me a name.
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