Who is to blame? Part II

I was driving along today and saw a micro-bus swerve to the "side" to drop off some passengers. In actual fact the micro-bus driver's definition of "side" was quite distorted. He stopped one lane left of the right side of the road. There was one whole lane to the right of him. He did not bother to stop on the side of the road, so essentially he had stopped somewhat in the middle of the road. There was no excuse for this.

I started thinking and discovered there was another element in the equation of system breakdown which I described in part one of this post.

The other element is apathy, laziness and lack of manners and etiquette thrown in together to produce a mixed characteristic. The driver of the mini-bus was not bothered to think about the hordes of cars behind him. He felt that it was his right to stop there as he did in the middle of the road and drop some passengers off, even though he stopped one lane short of the right place to stop. Could it be due to the fact that there was a second row of cars parked in the lane that he should have stopped in. The second row of cars was further up the road so he could have still parked to the side, dropped off the passengers and not bothered the cars behind him. This is besides the fact that People are too lazy to look for a real parking place so they park in a second row next to the first row of parked cars. Anywayz this does not change the fact that the micro-bus was ill-mannered.

Then you start to think of the driver and the background that he has come from. Is he to blame? Or is it the medium in which he was brought up in. Is the educational system to blame? Is it due to lack of awareness? Should there be ways of making the masses aware through the media like TV, radio...etc. Should there be awareness programs to try and help the common people? I'm afraid to say the system has failed again. The reasons for this are many and complicated. Some of them include poverty, backwardness, development...etc.

I wish things would change overnight. There is always a first step to be taken. I hope its taken soon.