Yeah. Road rage is seriously getting out of hand.
I was driving back this evening and there's a lot of barricades put by police in pune in many places. They were stopping many two wheelers and this created a lot of chaos and traffic jam. I was motoring along on a two lane road and there was this 75+ old grandpa driving an i10 trying to get off the shoulder and overtake me from left in a stop start traffic. Since there was no place on his left, he tries squeezing in. I turn left expecting a youngster in the car, but was amused to find a very old man and seated next to him was his very old wife. I honk and ask him to wait, but he tries to dangerously cut me out by overtaking from the left.
I initially thought I should let him go, but then people behind me are angry that morons try to cut through like this and start honking.
So I decided not to let him in and inch ahead. Honking still didn't help. This time I lowered my window and asked him as to what's his urgency, he gave me a real glaring look. I was stunned.
He looks thin, may be 55 kilos and is 75+ and I'm in early 30s and weigh 85 kilos. And this old man is trying to threaten me with his menacing looks. Irrespective of age, road rage is amazingly infectious. I understood that if I persist, the old bugger will dent his nice looking i10 and probably embarrass his wife too. So I let him go. He didn't cut in front of me. He went one step ahead, over took a tavera taxi and tried squeezing in. Next 5 mins I heard the tavera guy honking like crazy!
Boy, I missed my camera. Should have taken a photo of his face when he was glowering. looked like typical bollywood villain's sidekicks expression during a torture scene!
Coming to the topic, you did a great thing by ignoring the low-life on the two wheeler. Note from Mod : This discussion is best continued on the other road rage thread. Thanks
Last edited by GTO : 21st May 2010 at 10:44.
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