Fashion and Fury

Traffic manners!

December 29, 2007 · 6 Comments

“I wish India would become a good looking nation” I have heard a lot of people saying this. I also wish a cleaner India full of lambos, Mercs and Beemers. Even the highest of suspension technologies won’t help drivers in India having the bumpiest of roads in the world, sometimes it may kill you. But before blaming the environment first let’s ask a question ourselves. Do we contribute to making a neat road, free mobility of vehicles? Do we all have the so called traffic manners? Nay!

“It’s getting late!! What the…?” I just cut the telephone and started to meet my girl friend who was waiting at the town center five kilometers from then. So, I was inside my well maintained saloon struggling to resist the temptation as I can’t drive through the street faster. There are some irritating kids who play some ridiculous game, they call it cricket. After six minutes, I just got onto a decent road. When I just felt the pleasure of burying my foot into the pedal, I was bound to press the brakes hard.traffic-jam-in-chennai-india_cnewstodaynet_0404.jpg

If you want to see a worst driver, that would probably be an Indian owning a 100 c.c. bullshit. A lot of people like this collectively form the worst breed. All they do is to enter into the gaps and give no room for cars. Some even manage to take a U and escape the jam. We bloody car drivers can’t do that. Many such morons buried themselves into the jam. I managed to keep moving without leaving a gap between other cars. Otherwise bikes will cause a jam in the perpendicular direction also. At last I reached the top of the bridge and in that sprint I recoded a top speed of 2’’ a second. As I started to feel relieved again a block. This time ladies (we all know about their driving) in their scooters were the culprits. I don’t know why they have engines they push the vehicle with foot using the third law, damn they. Again the pain was over. I was already disappointed to let many pass my vehicle, and then I felt the height of the insult. In the hard to move traffic a 50c.c. took over me. “Hey, you don’t even have a bike idiot. Do you think you have your hands on an R1? How dare you? “Luckily he got out of my sight, surely would have created another jam somewhere else.

So, drivers please have some manners. Don’t use your sick indicators to indicate overtaking as some something does it. And don’t create jams just because of impatience. Most importantly remember you are not sitting on a super bike. Please make Indian roads look good even though this doesn’t bother me much. What does bother me is the fear of my next date too getting spoiled.

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  • http://driving-india.blogspot.com // December 29, 2007 at 10:07 pm | Reply

    Almost 10% of the global road traffic accidents occur in India. Much of the world wide web is full of sarcasm & mocking of the indisciplined driving on Indian roads. Unfortunately in since 60 years since independence the authorities have failed to publish a National Highway code. Licences are given to anyone who can demonstrate an ability to use the clutch-accelerator, consequently the motoer driving schools teach just that and no more. Concepts such as – blindspots, principle of MSM, the tyre & tarmac rule, 2 second gap and most improtantly giving way are not known to the average Indian driver.

    This site http://driving-india.blogspot.com/ has been created with the purpose of providing driver education and training to all Indian road users. It is by far the most comprehensive website providing training in defensive driving. Learning simple road habits can make our roads safe and also free up congestion caused by traffic chaos.

    At present 17 driver education videos aimed at changing the driving culture on Indian roads are available. The video are unique in that the footage is real life action from streets of London. We have copied the Western habits: Replaced the dhoti with denim, high rise buildings for Indian cottages, burgers and coke instead of Indian breads and perhaps sugarcane juice. Surely we can copy the Western ways of travelling too.

    To watch the videos, interested readers may visit: http://driving-india.blogspot.com/

    The videos cover the following topics:

    Video 1: Covers the concept of Blind spots
    Video 2: Introduces the principle of Mirrors, Signal and Manoeuvre
    Video 3: At red lights, stop behind the stop line
    Video 4: At red lights there are no free left turns
    Video 5: The Zebra belongs to pedestrians
    Video 6: Tyres and Tarmac (rather than bumper to bumper)
    Video 7: Merging with the Main road
    Video 8: Leaving The Main Road
    Video 9: Never Cut Corners
    Video 10: Show Courtesy on roads
    Video 11: 5 Rules that help deal with Roundabouts
    Video 12: Speed limits, stopping distances, tailgating & 2 seconds rule
    Video 13: Lane discipline and overtaking
    Video 14: Low beam or high beam?
    Video 15: Parallel (reverse parking) made easy
    Video 16: Give the cyclist the respect of a car
    Video 17: Dealing with in-car condensation

    Many thanks

  • kaushik ram // December 30, 2007 at 9:47 am | Reply

    hey .. too good da.. very funny indeed…

  • Karthik Swaminathan // December 30, 2007 at 10:04 am | Reply

    You have caught the impressions in everyone’s mind in this nice article!
    way to go…

  • manian_pbs // January 5, 2008 at 8:27 am | Reply

    thalai!! eppo blogging la… anyways nice article :)

  • achilles // January 21, 2008 at 4:44 pm | Reply

    what the f**k man

  • vijay // January 30, 2008 at 5:20 pm | Reply

    its the f**kin cricket!

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