Yesterday I worked inside all day, never leaving the flat with the brief exception of 10:40pm - 11:00pm to go get Di from work. However, that does not stop me from finding Stupid People, since they’ve taken the extra step of coming to find me if I am not out looking for them.

I was sitting at the desk, churning through some numbers on the computer when I heard a dull thudding sound. It was getting closer and louder, but definitely slowing down. With the Doppler effect, the sound swelled in size, then slowly began to recede. I could not figure out what the noise was, so I went to the balcony and looked out to the road, in the direction of the noise.

There, stopped in the only “no standing no overtaking” part of the road was a Budget rental truck, of the size people hire when they want to move house. The truck had obviously blown the rear left tyre, as it was angled downward in that direction. The driver of the vehicle must have been wondering what to do, and after a couple of minutes of sitting in the cab, decided to continue driving down the road.

The wheel rim was scraping on the sealed road, and the tyre was still booming out a rhythmic thudding sound as pieces of it continued to shred off while the truck was in motion. I thought perhaps it had just happened, and they had been forced to pull over in that section of road. However, when I went to get Di, there were pieces of shredded tyre stretching back more than a kilometre from our house. The driver had also stopped at two sets of traffic lights, had ample spaces to pull over, and ignored all these chances to do so in favour of driving the truck on three tyres and a wheel rim, shredding the remnants of the tyre all the way down the road.

I’m not sure how stupid it is possible for people to be. All I know is, they seem to be attracted to wherever I am…

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