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Trucks are causing intimidation to small cars on the roads.[File, Standard]
There was a time in Kenya when owning a car, any car, was considered progress. A sign that your parents’ prayers, Helb stipend, chama contributions and endless motivational quotes had finally produced fruit. Today, however, owning a small car feels less like progress and more like volunteering for public humiliation on wheels.
The roads have become a wildlife documentary where small cars are gazelles and trucks are hungry buffaloes with failed anger management classes. The moment a lorry driver sees your tiny Vitz, Demio, Passo, or Picanto, he immediately behaves like you are not a fellow motorist but a pothole with headlights. He overtakes from angles discovered only in military combat training. He flashes lights bright enough to resurrect your ancestors. Before you recover from the first blink, another truck behind him adds yellow lights, blue lights, white lights, green lights, and blinking LEDs that resemble a political rally entering heaven.
At night, the road looks less like transport infrastructure and more like a disco organised by demons.
