Dictionary from the Lair

This is not a Chinglish dictionary, but a wiki from observations of GZ life.

From the road.

Critical Mass
When the number of pedestrians reaches the point that the group is imbued with a sense of power and a false sense of invulnerability that it will cross the road under any circumstances, firm in the belief that drivers will halt because they don’t want to damage their cars, not because they don’t mind killing a few people.

Right-Of-Way
The right to go whatever way whenever a driver wishes, particularly if the person has those a white, military plate, which is the equivalent of a pill of unlimited power in a video game. This is appropriate since they drive with all the decency and sense of entitlement as someone playing GTA.

Road Rage
What I get when watching traffic here but no one else seems to have.

Shoulder Check
What?

Anticipation
What a driver needs when the car just ahead on the left will suddenly veer right to get to that fast approaching off-ramp which had been mentioned two hundred metres ago on a sign which you passed just before the same car, which had been on your right and behind you, decided to switch lanes to pass you. No one needs this except to avoid everyone else who doesn’t have this. What?

Rock, Paper, Scissors
Big beats small. Expensive beats big. Bus beats expensive. New bus beats old bus. Old lady on a tricycle with 3oo pounds of cardboard and her nearly dead husband riding on top to hold the ropes beat new bus.

Rules of the Road
I have a car. You don’t. I rule.