For all my vitriol a couple of weeks back about how introducing guns to Saudi Arabia was a terrible idea that would only make road rage incidents worse, I found myself wishing I had a gun this morning after having to slam on the brakes for the umpteenth time in less than three minutes.

As any parent of school-aged children will know I'm talking about the morning school run. The utter selfishness and lack of respect on the roads when it comes to getting children to school is about as shocking as any traffic violation can get.

It would seem that the majority of parents are under the impression that they are the only ones who need to get their children to school on time and that everyone else should know that the road belongs to them and them alone.

The traffic itself seems disproportionate to the number of children that could possibly be going to school in the entire country, let alone the cluster of schools to be found in Isa Town (Lord forgive whoever's genius idea it was to put all those schools together on the same stretch of road, along with two universities and an educational hall - not), but since we all know there's going to be a lot of traffic and plan for it accordingly, it isn't the real problem.

The real problem comes from the masses that believe there's no reason to follow road rules or even simple etiquette to get to where they're going, mounting the pavement and desert or cutting across a traffic light rather than waiting their turn like everyone else trying to get to the exact same place by the same time.

You know who you are and my question to each and every one of you is: "Who the hell are you? And what makes you think you have the right to jump the queue when there are at least 50 cars at any given time patiently waiting their turn ?"

Worse still, they beep and give you filthy looks when you purposely position your car just far enough to the side to stop them from getting past as if it's their God-given-right to do so.

Add into the mix the drivers who decide to make u-turns in bumper to bumper traffic going in both directions, resulting in blocking traffic both ways as there's nowhere for anyone to move.

Then, there are the drivers who push their way into said traffic to get to the other side of the road, blocking every other car as they get stuck halfway across the road when the traffic on the other side refuses to allow them entry.

Not to mention those who decide to park and leave their cars on the side of the road when there's barely enough room for one lane in each direction. The buses get stuck behind these protruding cars and traffic comes to standstill once again.

And, all that is just trying to get near to the school. Once you actually get there you still have to negotiate those genius parents and drivers that decide to drop off their children against the tide of the traffic and then still try and u-turn back onto the other side of the road.

What should be a peaceful 15-minute round trip is turned into a one hour anger-fest that puts you in a bad mood for the rest of the morning and just as you finally get your mood back onto an even keel it's time to go through it all over again when you go to pick the children up at the end of the school day. Right about now actually ... which reminds me, where did I put those bullets?