Monday, May 2, 2011

How learning how to drive sucks ass



Part I - Driving schools. Are horrible.
  1. The instructor never really lifts his foot off the clutch/ break.. so you don't get to learn anything. Oh wait.. you learn how to control the accelerator.. yes, i paid Rs. 2000 to learn how to control the accelerator. 
  2. Then, he'll keep on fidling with the steering wheel, just to validate the fact that it is, infact, a course on how to control the accelerator.  
  3. He'll come at 6 am an expect you to be vigilant an pay attention to what he's saying. I HAVE TELEVISION AND FACEBOOK TO ATTEND TO TILL 4 AM, SIR INSTRUCTOR. I CAN'T GIVE A DAMN ABOUT DRIVING AT 6 AM. 
  4. He'll take you to the most crowded places on your first day.. because it obviously makes sense to make an ammateur drive on such roads. 
  5. (Not sure if this happens with everyone.. but anyways) The instructor will make you drive to the next student's house.. which is several Kms away from your house.. good luck on the SLOW an bumply ride back home, Tushar.
Part II - Your own driver. Is horrible too. 

1. Once your 15 classes at the  driving school are over, you have to practice with your driver. Now the driver thinks that just because he has to sit with you when you're practicing, he is the sole dictator and has the right to scold you as much as he wants.
2. When your driver is driving you to somewhere, he'll show off his own driving skills by speeding, overtaking, driving in 5th gear, starting the car in 2nd gear, [insert other heroic stunts]
3. He will go to the village in the middle of your practice sessions and leave you helpless. (I'm sure that happened with no one except me. Fml. )
4. If you don't drive well, he'll complain to your parents. WTF man?
 (I just realized that maybe it's just my driver who's a nutcase. *stops writing more in Part II to make himself seem less miserable* )

Part III - The Driving License Authorty Office .. or whatever it's called.. it seemed like Satan's palace to me. 

1. That place is scary. And in the heat, it gets 10X worse. 
2. Not that you expect much out of a Government office, but THAT OFFICE STINKS. It stinks more than ANYTHING I've ever come across.. and I've come across some really bad things. 
3. Those people behind the desks make you run around the office like crazy and when you're done running, it's lunch time for the employees. Yeaayy!
4. They have visuals in the online test. And the images are so pixelated that you think that the rickshaw you're looking at is actually a bullock cart. 

Note/ A piece of advice: ALWAYS call people in such offices 'Sir/ Ma'am' .. it gives them a unique, mood lifting high. 

Tushar K. Aggarwal

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