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    My Talking Car
    My Talking Car
    My Talking Car
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    My Talking Car

    By James Kemoli Amata

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    JAMES KEMOLI AMATA is a 1976 BEd (Arts, Hons) graduate of the University of Nairobi. He is a freelance farmer-like author and a publisher on Smashwords.com. He is a retired secondary school teacher of (Christian Religious Education and) Kiswahili. He is a preventive healthcare network marketer and a Fountain Enterprises Programme (FEP Group of Companies) investor.
    He is the author of HIGHLY REGRETTED: An autobiography of a bad teacher, AuthorHouse, 2010; Siri Kali, Smashwords.com, 2013, among many others.
    MY TALKING CAR is a collection of sweet dreams and vibrations between moral and immoral; and ethical and unethical behaviour on many drivers. The drivers are either good or bad; and they do either right or wrong things as they drive.
    Let MY TALKING CAR call upon you to do what is good and right while you avoid all that is bad and wrong, every time you happen to be behind the wheel.
    That is my intention for you, and all drivers.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJames Kemoli Amata
    Release dateAug 30, 2015
    ISBN9781311012661
    My Talking Car
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    James Kemoli Amata

    I am a retired secondary school teacher of Kiswahili (and Christian Religious Education) and an excited preventive healthcare marketer with Green World Health Products Company.I am a 1976 University of Nairobi Bachelor of Education [Arts (Hons)] graduate and a freelance content writer with a passion for writing and indeed I am a farmer-like author with many titles.I published my first book in 1985, by traditional publishing. I have tried self-publishing and now I am in great heat to explore E-publishing.However, I will never forget my Taaluma ya Ushairi (with Kitula King’ei) from which the publisher ate fat alone, and happens to be an E-book without my knowledge.As I do my business, I worship God in African Kenya Sabcrynnsk of Soi (Prayer and Healing) Church.

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      My Talking Car - James Kemoli Amata

      Introduction

      GRAND WORD: If you commit silly trivial traffic offenses, such as overlapping,

      YOU SHAME OWNERS OF BIG CARS.

      I am just a car, made by human beings. I am made to move on the roads, made by human beings. I would like to say what I see on the roads that I will move on.

      Drivers drive cars. What I see on the roads is what I want to talk about.

      It is true that what I see other cars do is what they are made to do. No car is independent. No car has any brains. Only the drivers that drive are the ones that have brains. But some drivers do not seem to have any brains.

      Chances are that years will not pass. I am just months away. Not that I have not been made, but because I have not been put on the road. Once I am put on the road I will not see what I want.

      I will see what I do not want to see.

      Let me beg you not to misunderstand me.

      Do not think that I am proud. I am driven by morals and ethics. Therefore I will be talking about what is bad, not good to do and what should not be done.

      As soon as I land on the road do not feel bad about what I do. I am only a talking car.

      2. Bicycles are means of transport.

      There is a class of people that use them on daily basis.

      Respect those people that ride bicycles. On some of those bicycles are carried human beings. Respect the passengers of the cyclist.

      I have heard you say bad things about cyclists. Why do you say they are very stupid, just because they happen to be in front of you?

      The fact that someone is riding a bicycle does not make them stupid. They may not have been as lucky to have grabbed the kind of opportunity that landed in your hands.

      When you see a cyclist a head, do not harass them to be off the road. You normally mistreat them. If you see that the way is not clear, wait until the way is clear then overtake them.

      I have known you to be very careless and too bad to cyclists. There are times when you want to turn left. Do you think it is good to hoot at the cyclist so that they do not hit your car or you do not hit them as you overtake them to turn left? Who do you think you are to force cyclist to stop so that you come from behind, overtake them and turn left?

      You are a very bad driver. I do not want to endanger lives of cyclists on the road. I am just a talking car.

      2. WATCH! That motorcyclist is overtaking a bicycle and there is an oncoming vehicle.

      So what!

      You know our roads are narrow. If the motorcyclist is overtaking you do not attempt to overtake the motorcyclist. You do not have to be told that. I am just a car. How dare you expect me to control you instead of you controlling me?

      Owning me should not go into your head. Let owning me go into your heart. Pride comes before a fall. You may mistreat motorcyclists and since the world is oval, you will one day find that one day you will need one of them to take you to a certain place. Watch. Watch, I am cautioning you because you are a human being and I am just a car.

      The motorcyclists are also human beings. The motorcycle is just a machine like me, the talking car.

      As a car, you can see me now and the next time you see

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