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after years of cruising on my scooty am finally seriously learning to drive a car these days from a distinguished place "Maruti Driving School"...yeah the car manufacturers have an in-house driving school also replete with all the modern day amenities...AC cars and AC classrooms(yeah they have 7 hours of theory...complete with a theory exam too)...Vending Machines(naah! naah not in the cars)...Simulators Vechicles(am i learning how to drive a car or a MIG-II? )
anyways the unexpected luxuries in the school are not the point of concern...what worries me is something entirely akin to it...
i have been driving my scooty for close to a decade now in almost all types of situations right from my Lucknow college days to the lovely Bangalore roads(that in my belief provide u with a simulation of the roads on the moon!) so i'm a confident old pro on the roads...i drive pretty well actually...i can juggle with a smile the bangalore office rush and also negotiate out of mirage-image of a road...u get the picture now?
i drive the practical way...these guys are teaching me the ideal way...which way do i go?or rather which way will the traffic on the road force me to follow...this is my concern...i will give u an example...
one day in the theory class we learnt about the Right of Way and who should accord the respect to whom when the Major and the Service Roads are in question...The Rule Book says that anybody coming from a service road onto a major road should give the Right of Way to the person who is already on the Major road...coincidentally the day i learnt this i was faced with the same situation...i was driving my scooty and entering the Major road from a Service road...there was a car already on the major road so i slowed down and thought 'oh! this guy is on the major n i am JUST comin onto the major...dude u get ur Right of Way' so i braked and stopped and waited for the guy to pass...
whereas that guy did exactly the same with maybe his thoughts as 'oh! what a luvly lass in black...gal u get ur Right of Way' and he settled deep into his driver's seat to savour the 6seconds more that he got when we both were giving each other the way...naah naah we dint stand there for infinity...meanwhile a BPO cabbie arrived...smart chap took advantage of the impasse between us and zoomed off...my ideal driving and reverie of thoughts regarding the right of way was broken and i followed suit...
with each and every theory class i am learning the ideal way to drive and my confidence(driving) of yore takes a sharp beating...numerous incidents happen everyday when i find that going by the ideal way i just hold the traffic and get loads of smart one-liners on lady drivers...
after 3 theory classes and some kilometres on the road i was all ready to unlearn whatever i had learnt to keep my confidence on the road and shaky hands in check...
so is Ideal driving or the confident practical driving of mine the correct way?
after years of cruising on my scooty am finally seriously learning to drive a car these days from a distinguished place "Maruti Driving School"...yeah the car manufacturers have an in-house driving school also replete with all the modern day amenities...AC cars and AC classrooms(yeah they have 7 hours of theory...complete with a theory exam too)...Vending Machines(naah! naah not in the cars)...Simulators Vechicles(am i learning how to drive a car or a MIG-II? )
anyways the unexpected luxuries in the school are not the point of concern...what worries me is something entirely akin to it...
i have been driving my scooty for close to a decade now in almost all types of situations right from my Lucknow college days to the lovely Bangalore roads(that in my belief provide u with a simulation of the roads on the moon!) so i'm a confident old pro on the roads...i drive pretty well actually...i can juggle with a smile the bangalore office rush and also negotiate out of mirage-image of a road...u get the picture now?
i drive the practical way...these guys are teaching me the ideal way...which way do i go?or rather which way will the traffic on the road force me to follow...this is my concern...i will give u an example...
one day in the theory class we learnt about the Right of Way and who should accord the respect to whom when the Major and the Service Roads are in question...The Rule Book says that anybody coming from a service road onto a major road should give the Right of Way to the person who is already on the Major road...coincidentally the day i learnt this i was faced with the same situation...i was driving my scooty and entering the Major road from a Service road...there was a car already on the major road so i slowed down and thought 'oh! this guy is on the major n i am JUST comin onto the major...dude u get ur Right of Way' so i braked and stopped and waited for the guy to pass...
whereas that guy did exactly the same with maybe his thoughts as 'oh! what a luvly lass in black...gal u get ur Right of Way' and he settled deep into his driver's seat to savour the 6seconds more that he got when we both were giving each other the way...naah naah we dint stand there for infinity...meanwhile a BPO cabbie arrived...smart chap took advantage of the impasse between us and zoomed off...my ideal driving and reverie of thoughts regarding the right of way was broken and i followed suit...
with each and every theory class i am learning the ideal way to drive and my confidence(driving) of yore takes a sharp beating...numerous incidents happen everyday when i find that going by the ideal way i just hold the traffic and get loads of smart one-liners on lady drivers...
after 3 theory classes and some kilometres on the road i was all ready to unlearn whatever i had learnt to keep my confidence on the road and shaky hands in check...
so is Ideal driving or the confident practical driving of mine the correct way?
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