Had a long day at work and was just heading home, nothing unusual. Entered my society and was driving towards my parking spot — it’s a pretty long internal road, around 200–300 meters, and mostly empty.
I was doing maybe 30–40 km/h, nothing crazy.
I took a turn and saw a guy walking on the side of the road, around 50–100 meters ahead. I slowed down, didn’t honk, didn’t do anything reckless. He looked at me, and I assumed he was just checking out my car.
I passed him, parked, and as I was getting out, he passed me but he came back and walks up to me and says (in a very sarcastic tone),
“Are you a race car driver? Dirt rally driver? F1 driver? The way you’re driving around corners at 40… even I was shocked — and I’m an IPS officer.”
For a second I thought he was joking or even complimenting me, but then his expression changed and I realized he was taking a dig.
I apologized anyway and said, “Sorry if I startled you.” He just walked away with this weird sense of superiority.
Honestly, I don’t even know what I did wrong. I wasn’t overspeeding dangerously, wasn’t honking, wasn’t driving rashly.
But the whole interaction just left a bad taste. Why do some people in these positions carry this unnecessary attitude? That subtle “I’m better than you” vibe, especially over something so trivial.
Just because you’re an IPS officer doesn’t mean you talk down to people like that.