Driving Mania

Feb 25th, Wednesday, 2009

Sometimes I just know it is not the right day to begin writing a new post.. and then sometimes I am just too adamant and I don't listen to myself!!! :D

I have been living up to my last post, albeit not completely. One very wise person said.. timetables are meant to be broken or tweaked... or was that promises??? 

Anyway, I have been getting up every morning (at 6/7 o'clock not at 12 o'clock and passing it off as morning). But I have gone for exercise only on 1 day. My desired company has been too lazy, you see! ;) After my jog, I have my driving practice which I haven't missed a single session of. And I have been awake on most of the days. On the others, the driver teaching me has gone into deep spirituality mode :D. I wouldn't be surprised if he gives up on me soon. He is too polite to be able to curse aloud!

But I was wondering while driving (thinking, not day dreaming) today as to how much driving instructions are different in India and elsewhere: 

In other places, the focus is on knowing the road rules and following them. Here, it is knowing the road rules and knowing that others don't follow them.

There it is honking when necessary. Here, honking is the necessity.

Elsewhere, people focus on driving the car; here we have to focus on driving our car and on others driving theirs to magically predict when they decide to make the turn.  

Also, in other places, driving lanes are followed; here, people devise new ways and means to try and break the pattern!

And this is the best one... in other places, we should have road sense, here we should have the road potholes sense!!!! (My driver today actually taught me how to avoid potholes by judging where my car tires are placed. I didn't know this was a part of learning how to drive!)

It has been a revelation as to how much manual labour one should do to drive an 'AUTOmobile'! But, the driving experience has been awesome fun (for me, I'm not too sure the driver will agree) :D

P.S. I still have almost 20 days of practice sessions left before I can even think of taking the car out on my own, even on an empty street! I just started only a few days ago but as the post suggests, the learning curve has been phenomenal ;) !

P.P.S : Call me sexist, but my mission of this re-learning (I already have a licence but I had lost touch due to lack of practice; hence re-learning) is to be able to NOT drive like a lady driver!!! :D