Just to be on the safer side - I am a good driver. Albeit a woman one. Also, I’ve just had only one major car crash, the damage being concentrated on the car only. No one was hurt and we wont count emotional car-o-phobia for a couple of weeks as a big deal, will we?
So last week, a friend asked me for a ride to work. At the last minute, she asked me if I’d be comfy driving her brand new Scorpio instead of taking my (also brand new yet much smaller) Zen. Would I! And how.
The two of us ended up turning a lot of heads during the drive. After a lot of pointing and wondrous looks from passer bys, we understood that people found it strange that two women were driving around in this huge vehicle. If I could have read people’s minds at that time, I knew the first thought would have been - women drivers!
Another friend of mine is soon going to be a proud owner of the soon to be launched Hyundai I10. Since I know his passion for driving, I usually offer him my car keys when we sometimes go out for lunch in search for exotic local cuisines. However I noticed that last time I drove back (my own car) that so-called friend of mine had his hand precariously perched atop the dashboard hoping illogically that it would perhaps break his fall when we go tumbling down the alpine slopes. Hmmff… men drivers!
I sometimes meet my colleague in his Maruti Swift at the parking lot after work. I ask him if he’d like to race; to which he laughingly replies - I dont race girls. Thats why whenever I find him driving ahead of me in the mornings, I make it a point to overtake him and reach first!
All this may not sound like a big deal if you live in the cities where every other driver is a woman. As for me, I live in a place where children point at me as I drive past them and exclaim - Look! A girl driving a car.
I’ve noticed two problems with women drivers..
1) When they start the car, they adjust one of the rear view mirror and try to adjust their hair..No probs till now..But the problem is that she often forgets to turn back that rear view mirror to the correct location
2) They lack quick thinking..I’m not being a chauvinist here..But on an average men and women get near a potential accident almost equal number of times..But men generally show the presence of mind and in a reflex action ,avert the accident ( ofcourse, if not under the influence of alcohol
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It’s like the trite comment that you women tell about us men..
“All you guys are the same.. *SCOWL*”
Guys tend to think all girls have the same kind of bad driving skills. And guys tend to think that driving is something macho.
If you’d feel better, a girl once beat me when we raced our cars.
Aha! Two guys commented first
Ajith -
1. I’m a late lateef so I’m often applying make up in the car before work. Although I wonder who exactly u talking about
2. Yeah, if there’s anything worst than a chauvinist, its a drunk chauvinist!
Deepak - I liked the SCOWL emotion put forth so realistically. And I’m seriously considering a career in car racing now.
I can vouch on this girl’s driving! What a road it was! Rem???
Just to be clear..A girl beat me…in the race, I mean…and not “beat me black and blue”
PS: Sorry…Couldn’t help it.
Shaliya - I do! Snaking up the mountains on a very narrow road
Deepak - Shucks. I was already picturing you in a nice shade of blue, esp around your eyes