Commander Mho 🪖⚡️

A decade ago and earlier, driving on our roads was fairly sane. You could take a casual drive in some cities with your open-roof car, and no one would harass you. Your issue was potholes and lack of road lights. Then one day, some group of money-miss-roads thought to themselves that they could get high on clout if they started throwing money at able-bodied people who stand by the road doing nothing. The hailing and running after their vehicles that the cash would evoke was a drug; it got them high. They continued to do it. It became a competition. Soon, the rugged-looking guys by the roadside saw this as a career. They began to ask for money by the road, through softer approach. They hailed you and begged you. You showed them love. They didn’t touch your car; they didn’t obstruct your passage. They just walked alongside. Things got tougher. Fewer people threw cash on the road, and more people saw the cash-begging business as an attractive work. They could make easy 10k daily doing nothing. As the economy got rougher, the “industry” switched into survival mode. The tough, rugged-looking ones pushed away the calmer ones. They started making subtle threats at the young drivers in flashy cars, and out of fear, some dropped money. The new tactic worked. The drivers figured it out. They rolled up their windows and looked straight ahead, without catching the gaze of the dangerous-looking car huggers. Then the huggers and beggars improvised. They kissed your window with angry faces and yelled into the glass. They crowded you, with intent to stun you with fear. This is the reality today. Newsflash: It will not end there. Soon, they will start wielding guns, and you will remember these are the monsters we made. Another related problem is brewing with the car-spotters. The attention-starved rich ones are breeding the next set of carjackers and traffic robbers. In due time, the chicken will come home to roost. Always remember, the hunger for clout got us here, and that hunger will imprison us all. Hoping government provides a decisive fix, whatever it takes to return sanity. Have a nice day.