Sense and sensibilities

Warning: This is a rant

How many of you have this weird fear in you while starting from home… the fear of returning safe that evening/night… do you look at your mom and give a smile through your helmets visor and tell her tata or ask her ‘do you want something while I come back?’
Do you feel like a warrior out in the battle field who has no guarantee if he’ll return alive…
Well, you are not alone…
You very well know that you are qualified enough to drive a two-wheeler, you know that you are sensible enough not to skip red signals, you know that you will not swoosh through one way roads, you have the basic common sense to indicate while you take a turn.

But, trust me.. you belong to the minority here… 7 on 11 people are insensible warts who do NOT do any of the above mentioned things.

I drive to office every single day, and its approximately a 45km drive to and fro , and each and every single day I undergo this weird thing called ‘driving stress’ there is absolutely no stress or pressure that I have at work, but to compensate that I have this thing…
Now whoever comes to a conclusion that ‘all women are bad drivers’ – you are wrong, there are a lot of sensible female drivers, it’s just that even now there is zilch respect for women who drive, and this happens not only to women, that’s the best part about it… no sensible driver gets his respect.

Every damn person is in a hurry, but that doesn’t mean you disregard all rules.

-->Skipping signals : there would hardly be 3 in 15 who would wait for the signal to become a green, as and when the count in 6 everyone just passes through it… just like that and have you ever seen a person you stops when it’s in orange…

-->Lane discipline : hello what’s that? and talk to them about this you get this as the reply ‘ where is the lane in India for me to follow it’ , well, there might not be proper lanes but at least you can have the sense not to skip on the one which you were driving? You drive behind a car, find a tiny gap and just go into that and create havoc. How brilliant!!

One more thing that I will never be able to comprehend… why do people commute to office in such BIG cars, ok dude you do have a car, you love it, it’s like your baby and all that jazz but your office is hardly 10-15km away from home and you drive in your car that too as a SINGLE entity.. Heard about ‘carpooling’? saves you and your friends SO much money and also you get to go in different cars and you also consume less space and do a GREAT deal of help to the society.

Median lines--> I do not know why they exist! Some heavy motor vehicle manages to break it once in every fortnight.

Over-speeding --> ok Mr.WannaBe COOL, we know you have a super awesome 135 CC bike which can FLY… but you do not have the rights to shit scare every other person who is driving…

And this part is THE most irritating… the annoying high-pitched loud musical horns… it gives me such a feeling that my heart misses several beats … not just by the road side romeos who have bikes in every funky color possible (green, yellow, Ferrari red and what not) but also the lorry drivers who think the road belongs to them and they just do not stop with that loud horn but also are generous enough to tap loudly on the door which is supposedly an offence.

And I will never understand why some people always have their feet flying while they drive a two-wheeler, leg brake concept or what?!

Talking/using mobile phones while driving… dearie dears can’t your lover wait for few seconds? Can’t you just stop in a corner , talk and then drive again? Will your business drown if you do not attend that phone call while driving? Can’t you use a hands-free? Well, you might be super-talented in multi-tasking, but honestly it distracts others…

Crackers-->we burst crackers for anything and everything possible. Wedding-crackers, death-crackers, political meetings-crackers what next? Weekend-crackers is it??!! Don’t you realize that you are scaring every animal possible, do you know how scared dogs are to the noise of it, they run haywire and die…just like that. Every morning I see at least one dog dead on a main road, honestly I feel ashamed for having born in this human race, no concern for animals, don’t you feel bad, don’t you get a feeling that even YOU might die just like that dog someday and there would be no soul to care about it? SHAME- on me, you and everyone

Save energy -->turn off your vehicle while waiting for signals, and its also good for your vehicles engine

Stop blaming the Government for bad roads, I know they are NOT very responsible, they just repair it over-night and it doesn’t solve any problem… but as a citizen you can be responsible enough…

*Avoid skipping signals
*Put your mobile phones on silent while you drive or use hands-free if its an emergency
*Follow lane discipline
*Be a friendly driver
*DO NOT burst crackers on main roads at peak traffic hours
*Give way for AMBULANCE
last but NOT the least....
*please please please DO WEAR YOUR HELMETS!!!

All these small things can have a effect, you do your bit, seeing you 2 people will follow and trust me its such a COOL thing to follow rules…
And I am trying to do my bit, just with a tiny ray of hope that someone would follow suit and I can drive without fear and get back home ‘alive’ come on, there are thousand ways to die and dying in a accident on the road is the last I want…