Why I can’t read maps!!

I can’t drive. Period. Not on these roads anyway. I have travelled to coll these 4 yrs by bus for 2 hours minumum each day. I have never doubted the driving. But I learnt driving barely 6 months back and I have been most scared to travel by bus now, though its the same ppl drivin, same route, same bus, but scary!!

Same issue with my dad. My dad is a super driver. A rash driver. He drives, drinks, smokes, eats and I have seen him changing shirts. ALL WHILE DRIVING!! Have I cared? No!! I trust him. Even when he goes at 100 kms/hr (which is a lot acc to me) I was cool.

Not anymore. I started driving and every turn my dad takes without me realising the decelaration I close my eyes and scream at dad. I started getting paranoid with my bus drivers driving. But I must really appreciate their precision. Two huge buses travelling side by side (that’s coz the drivers are racing against each other) and if I reach out, I can touch the next person’s face. The one that belongs to the gal sitting in the next bus!! One inch off, and at those speeds we’d have been spinning away to death. I do appreciate their ability to control their vehicles with such precision, but all these issues which were so oblivious to me, suddenly seem to completely disconcert me now. This explains why ppl say that IGNORANCE IS BLISS!! It truly is!!

So, why am I talking abt all this now?? I don’t know. I just realised yesterday that there is no way that I can ever drive. Two reasons.

1. The route to my dad’s office, a place to which I have been driven to, a MILLION times now. Do I know it? Do I remember it? NO!!

Do I know if SRMC hospital is in Porur? NO!! Not until my dad told me so last year and I have been passing that place for the past 4 yrs.

Basically I can’t remember routes to save my life.

2. I need discipline on the road, to drive.
When I see three auto guys occupying three diff lanes and all going in the same horizontal line, I just get soo irritated. They are deaf to the honking horns from my car. And there is no way that my car would fit between the two autos. Man!! Frustrating!!

Two wheelers need a completely new post. They, I do agree, have as much rights on the road as I do, but they should realise that the speed of a car and that of a bike are entirely two different things. So if they wish to travel in the middle of the road, the car will have to match to the speed of the two wheeler. Does it occur to them, that it slows down the entire traffic following. NO!! The road belongs to them and they shall travel right in the middle.

So what do I do? Decide not to drive!! Not that my driving is great. But I believe that I don’t intrude anybody, except for the once that I scratched someone’s car with my brilliant driving. Well I have been good since then, so lets not get into the details. My driving is great as long as someone sits beside me and tells me that I have to turn left, right, slow down, overtake now, brake and stuff. Basically I work with the precision of a machine, with absolutely no brains and yes I have a driving license.