Tuesday, January 29, 2008

Driving In Colombo

The car was left at the workshop for services, so had to get a ride with another person’s driver. His driving fine until he reached duplication road when suddenly a bus kept swerving into the car every few minutes. The car driver got really worked up and he started racing with the bus. I don’t mind fast driving all the better to get to your place quicker. But this was ridiculous with a break thrown in every thirty seconds. Tried to tell the driver do not race with the mad bus. But he just ignored me completely (as most drivers do when they are in the frenzy of overtaking the next vehicle) and kept racing until the end of duplication road. Seriously it was like one of those roller coaster rides when u fell like u are going to dip down any minute.

Some of the bus drivers in town are crazy and will come right next to you break and smile. I mean it would be like just a inch distance and they decide to break. Another scenario is when in the middle of the road the bus decides to turn left without the signal. All this is good practice to become some of the world’s best drivers. If you can drive in Colombo and Chennai, you sure can anywhere else…

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