Driving is not my passion.. Forget being a passion.. I hate the thought..
I think it was during my first year engineering that I started driving lessons.. at Siva Driving School in Poonkunnum.. I am sure my teachers there had a horrible time teaching me drive.. Any I failed my first driving test.. I could do the "T" pretty well.. But couldnt brake the car properly.. I am sure that examiner thot it dangerous to give licence to a person who cannot stop the car properly. Anyway, I managed to pass in the next attempt. That time we had a ambassador car at home. It was my cousin who used to drive it. One or twice he tried to make me drive. Both ended in accidents. Once I was just trying to take the car in reverse in the small road in front of my house.. I was not looking back while taking the reverse and the back of the car went and hit the wall of my neighbours house and the entire section of the wall came down.. Another time me and my cousin were driving to a temple. I had to take a left turn from Shornur road to go the temple. I took the turn without slowing down and lost control and the car went and hit a tree on the right side of the road. Luckily there were no vehicles or people on the road and hence no damages..Anyway with that my cousin gave up trying to make me drive and I never even dreamt of driving any more.
Fast forward 5 years.. I am on my first and only US visit till date. Since TI pays for the driving classes in US when u r on business visit, I too enrolled for driving lessons. With the automatic cars, I found driving there pretty ok. But then again, another accident purely from my mistake. And this time one of my friend who was in the back seat had her arm fractured. There were people who blamed the way I drive but luckily for me the girl who got her arm broken not only didnt blame me on my face but also showed the courage to travel with me in my car when I was driving.. Thanks for that Vindhya.. I am sorry for the mistake I did.. But the way u behaved was the only thing that gave me the courage to keep driving until I returned from US...
Back in India I again gave up driving.. Then for the past 2 and half years Anurag had been trying to get me to driving.. I do it once and if I fell I didnt drive properly I wont touch the car for the next 4 months until he finally pushes me one day.. The longest drive was around 120 kms from Coorg till Srirangaptnam.. And two weeks back when Anurag was not in Blr, I took my mom on a Sunday morning to the temple.. Then one day I drove to office again with Anurag in the passenger seat.. So slowly I am gaining the confidence to drive.. Hoping that I wont meet with another accident..
BTW, anybody who reads this, beware of having ever to travel with me when I am driving.. Hope u never meet with that situation :)
Well I would say you did a commendabale job in Bangalore than in Thrissur, considering the traffic and riding sense of Bangalore.
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ReplyDeleteAnyway...thats cool recollecting driving experience. And thanks for your warning ;-)
As you see I too not a passionate about driving before I took Avenger to Bangalore but now I am a bit craze about it.
Hey! I dont remember any mention of your "dangerous driving" while you were in engg college, in fact I used to think that its really nice that you showed interest in driving two wheeler and four wheeler!! And blore should be the safest place to drive in my opinion (contrary to what Dhanush has said above :-), because in bangalore the chances of getting into a "big" accident is small cause of slow moving traffic. Some scratches here and there, thats all you will get, which is unavoidable for any driver :). And in US, as long as TI pays for ur insurance, then you can hit any object that has no life :)).
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