Random Questions of the Day

• Why do most female stealth-bike riders here have the wing mirrors angled so they can see their face rather then the road behind them?
• Why do stealth-bike riders think it’s both big and clever to appear smug when they overtake cyclists on a hill?
• Why do construction projects hang the phrase ‘安全第一’ (quite literally ‘Safety First’) everywhere when clearly no-on knows what it means?
• Why do they fit ventilation systems in road tunnels and underground car parks but don’t switch them on?
• Why do all buildings have Security Guards when clearly they’re only ornamental?
• Why do shops and restaurants keep all the lights turned off when there are no customers inside, thus creating the impression that they’re closed?
• Why do people not react in any way to you ringing your bicycle bell/hooting/shouting at them when they’re in the middle of the road/bike lane?
• Why, when tackling pollution is getting some serious attention, do the police set up endless road blocks to check bicycles and let stinking trucks pumping thick black smoke go untouched?
• Why do cars drive with their high-beam lights, fog lights and driving lights on when it’s raining? (I’d suggest that it’s to blind people coming the other way but that just seems gratuitous)
• Why, oh why, don’t people USE THEIR EYES before walking, cycling or driving onto a more major road?

I could go on, and indeed, on. I guess the answer to all of these questions is simply going to be ‘Why not?’ as that’s the only answer to so many questions here…