City driving... First Incident:
It was about 12ish and I took a left turn at the Banashankari 2nd Stage at the Pizza hut end of the BDA complex to go towards J.P. Nagar. After I completed the turn and as I reached near the park, there is a big hump, I slowed down, crossed the hump and kept moving ahead slowly as there were quite a few vehicles in front of me.
At this point I noticed a white color fabia driven by a lady exactly behind me. She honked me a couple of times asking for way I guess, I could not move to the left to give her way as there was an auto and a bike to my left. I just stuck to my lane and soon there was the 2nd hump which I cleared and moved ahead and as I was preparing to accelerate as the vehicles in front of me started to move faster, this lady in fabia who was behind me, all of a sudden went on to my right to overtake and the moment she realised she is on the wrong side and saw a jeep/van coming from the opposite direction, she suddenly came to the left right infront of me and I would have rear ended her had I not slowed down. She did all this stunt with absolutely no inidication in any way.
I thought of overtaking her and giving her a piece of my mind, but considering the safety of me and others on the road, decided not to do it and just stuck to my usual driving and saw her race away and disappear in fear that I might catch up with her.
When will people learn to respect other users on the road? I guess never.
Second Incident:
The same evening around 8:00 PM I was driving on mysore road and was heading towards BHEL. Near the hanuman temple, there was huge traffic. In the left most lane, there was a VRL truck. I was just next to the truck. and next to me was a wagon r going in the opposite direction correctly in that lane. As I was inching through the traffice, there came a white tata estate (the one which looks like pickup truck) to my right in the opposite lane in that high traffic and started to move to the left to join the correct lane where there is hardly any space as I am there and next to me there is thus truck. I told the passenger on the front seat, why are you hurring up like this where is the space here in this traffic? For this he said, you shut up and mind your own business don't tell us what to do and the vehicle continued to move to the left. As it was literally inching at that point, I stopped and let that idiot go and I moved only after he had clearly moved ahead. This vehicle was infront of me, I noticed that the registration belonged to the rural area probably some village on the outskirts of bangalore. The vehicle was also loaded with a lot of stuff that would normally be used for agriculture. The people in the car also looked like typical of those village goons / landlords.
I am not trying the blame that only people from village drive bad in cities, but as far as I have seen, these people who drive in cities high traffic, drive as if they are driving in their villages without giving proper indications, without following rules and trying to overtake others when literally all vehicles are inching in traffic.
I am sure all of us go through such incidents every time while we are on the road. Initially I used to get frustrated at almost every incident like this when I initially started to drive. Now I just ignore these incidents and idiots and just move on. I have realised that there is not point getting frustarted as there will always be a moron with the "me first" attitude on the road no matter what. Note from Team-BHP Support : Thread MERGED. Please use the search feature before creating a new thread on a topic that might already exist. Please continue your discussion in an existing thread. This will keep all the relevant information in one place and make it easier for readers in the future.
Last edited by Jaggu : 20th May 2009 at 15:32.
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