The vehicle in front of us was road hogging. Instead of sounding the horn, flashing our headlights and perhaps stretching our arms and fingers for the morning exercise, my wife decided that she will switch lanes and overtake the road-hogger. As she signaled her intentions, cars started to speed up - does this sound familiar? Her natural instinct was to speed up so that her chance of changing lanes would be higher, but all the same, cars on the other lane refused to give way.
So, I told my wife, "why don't you slow down, let the cars go by and then switch lane?" Guess what? It worked. Soon, we were tucking in on our saturday morning noodles accompanied by our kopi-o.
It is a paradox but true beyond the roads that "sometime we need to slow down in order to speed up."
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