Where are the authorities when you need them??

I have the misfortune of residing in a house just at the back of MBPJ and the PJ Civic Centre. Today there is some PKR function either in MBPJ or the PJ Civic Centre. I don’t know and I don’t care.

All I know is that there are cars parked on both sides of the street, which means a two way street has now become so narrow that only one car can pass at any one time. The authorities should have either closed the main road so that there can only be one way traffic, or alternatively, stopped people from parking on both sides of the street. Neither has been done. And the result: chaos!

I had to wait 20 minutes just to get to my house from the main road, a distance of about 300 metres. And then when I finally reached my house, some monkey had parked right in front of my house! All I could see in the monkey’s car were 2 pairs of legs. Sounding the horn did no good.

So I had to get out of my car and knock on the monkey’s car window, whereupon the monkey awoke from his deep slumber and proceeded to very slowly move his car away from the entrance of my house. No apologies. No remorse. Just a look of irritation for having been disturbed from his sleep.

I then parked my car in the house and when I went to close the front gate, lo and behold! The monkey had parked his car in front of my house again! I politely told him that he was blocking my entrance, and how am I supposed to go in and out of my own house?? Nonchalantly, he tells me that he will only be there for a while as he is waiting for someone. That was 45 minutes ago.

Seriously, whatever happened to civic consciousness? Don’t they teach pendidikan moral or agama in schools anymore? Isn’t it common sense not to park in front of people’s houses?

This is not the first time this is happening and it certainly won’t be the last. Whenever there is a function in MBPJ or the PJ Civic Centre, there will be a traffic jam just outside my house, and I will have to spend 20 minutes getting into or out of my house.

The authorities will continue to be blind to all of this because they are of course benefitting from the rental of the MBPJ or PJ Civic Centre halls. What do they care about inconveniencing residents like me when there is all this money to be made. The best part is, all this illegal parking is happening right under their very noses!

I am now trapped in my own house!