Mental Roadblocks....

I'm currently without a driver, so driving myself to office everyday...
To say that the experience is harrowing is insulting every self-respecting Indian -its something much worse than that.
The roads are either dug up or are potholed. There are stretches of oasis - but they're over so quickly, they're more like mirages..
clutch-brake-clutch - we're going to invent a new "Ankle Braked on Clutch Syndrome" - a carpel-syndrome brother for the legs...
Add to that idiotic traffic lights/cops which give more time to tertiary feeds than the highway, illegal parking, double parking and some creative road building, and you have me travelling at an average speed of 20Kms/hr.
Of course, I cannot leave aside the stupid overbridge/flyover constructions. They're extremely fast at digging up the road, or cordoning off some part, but after that you rarely seen anyone working! There's one juntion on my route which is cordoned off and I lose 20mins just at that one junction. First of all, i'm not sure why a flyover was required there. So i think they're trying to create a need for the flyover by creating a bottleneck there, so when the flyover is ready, all us motorists will heave a sigh of relief and praise the administration..(conspiracy theory no.1)
I think they're really looking for gold all across the city - which explains the frenetic digging but no repair (maybe they want to come back and do a follow-up dig? ) .(conspiracy theory no.2).
Of course, it does give me a lot of time to think and reflect on life, physics, polynomial equations, the expanding Universe, and my credit card bill, but hey - i'd trade a fast ride any day!!