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Often wondered if I was or should be included in the 10% Club. You know, that sliver of Irish people who see things differently to the bulk of their peers. They give forth with unpopular views connected as a rule to the more serious side of life in the real world.
Well today I have found out for sure that I am so connected and have made it all the way to the 10% Club. How come ? Did I need a sponsor, did I have to get references ? was there a probationery period ? Nah....just get a load of this.
Today, I note that 9.5% of Dublin motorists or approx 112,000 of us who reside within the Pale have penalty points and so it follows that I have made it at last. Seems I sailed straight in without any screening process.
I draw no joy whatever as I sit fuming on the M50 (well maybe less so since the weekend) from the notion that 90% of the motorists who sit around me are not in that select club. How come that they have escaped detection ?
Like they observe better the speed restrictions than I do ? Gimme a break.
It's impossible to drive for any reasonable length of time at or below the speed limit anywhere in this fair land of ours so how come more people are not caught and penalised. I'm just fed up being flashed at, honked, fingered (single and double), mouthed at and cut across when I try to be a good boy. I grit my teeth, grip the steering wheel, glare at the road ahead and stay under the speed limit and all these geesers flash bye me in a torrent and I feel alone in the 10% Club when that happens.
After all it was only a momentary lapse in concentration in the vicinity of that speed machine with the voracious appetite adjacent to the SpaH in Lucan that caused me to have a blotted copybook after a blameless lifetime cruising the tarmac.
Yet my youngest (he who thinks all accellerators should be nailed to the floor) refers to me as 'Road Hog' and when I try to defend myself he retorts : "Pops, you are a convicted, recorded Road Hog....known to the Gardai...etc....whereas I with by souped up Beamer have no official trace in any of those departments".
Just how can life be so unfair ?
Well today I have found out for sure that I am so connected and have made it all the way to the 10% Club. How come ? Did I need a sponsor, did I have to get references ? was there a probationery period ? Nah....just get a load of this.
Today, I note that 9.5% of Dublin motorists or approx 112,000 of us who reside within the Pale have penalty points and so it follows that I have made it at last. Seems I sailed straight in without any screening process.
I draw no joy whatever as I sit fuming on the M50 (well maybe less so since the weekend) from the notion that 90% of the motorists who sit around me are not in that select club. How come that they have escaped detection ?
Like they observe better the speed restrictions than I do ? Gimme a break.
It's impossible to drive for any reasonable length of time at or below the speed limit anywhere in this fair land of ours so how come more people are not caught and penalised. I'm just fed up being flashed at, honked, fingered (single and double), mouthed at and cut across when I try to be a good boy. I grit my teeth, grip the steering wheel, glare at the road ahead and stay under the speed limit and all these geesers flash bye me in a torrent and I feel alone in the 10% Club when that happens.
After all it was only a momentary lapse in concentration in the vicinity of that speed machine with the voracious appetite adjacent to the SpaH in Lucan that caused me to have a blotted copybook after a blameless lifetime cruising the tarmac.
Yet my youngest (he who thinks all accellerators should be nailed to the floor) refers to me as 'Road Hog' and when I try to defend myself he retorts : "Pops, you are a convicted, recorded Road Hog....known to the Gardai...etc....whereas I with by souped up Beamer have no official trace in any of those departments".
Just how can life be so unfair ?
