Just the other day on the way to work I was thinking about driving. And for how long I've been driving now - nearly 17 years maybe..first the 2-wheeler, then the car, then unlearn and re-learn everything in the US, then again unlearn and re-learn Indian driving. At one time, driving was a passion, then it became a routine thing to take me around, when we moved back to India, it was a pain which I did not wish to inflict on myself. But thanks to the older son having to be dropped off at the day care and not wanting to sacrifice on the flexibility your own car offers vs company transport, I took to driving, yet again. I actually enjoy it now - thanks to the automatic I got. I would not go back to a manual shift if I had the choice. Not in the maddening traffic.
Two-wheeler driving is an experience in itself and any day beats a four-wheeler hands down. I havent had any of it in the past 12 years since I moved westward. But now that my Dad is here and his Scooty has come with him - I got to drive a two-wheeler after many many years. I was feeling a little out of touch but I still had it in me. In the older times, there were days when I used to drive from Kukatpally to Dilsukhnagar effortlessly on the two-wheeler with mom in tow too! All that experience is bound to be locked in the brain somewhere ;)
But you know you've driven a car too long when you turn the key in the two wheeler and keep trying to turn it further and wonder why it doesn't start : ))) I did that yesterday when I went shopping with the older one - only to remember later, that I either need to kick start it or use the button start. I was appalled at how rusted I really did turn out with the two-wheeler ;)
Two-wheeler driving is an experience in itself and any day beats a four-wheeler hands down. I havent had any of it in the past 12 years since I moved westward. But now that my Dad is here and his Scooty has come with him - I got to drive a two-wheeler after many many years. I was feeling a little out of touch but I still had it in me. In the older times, there were days when I used to drive from Kukatpally to Dilsukhnagar effortlessly on the two-wheeler with mom in tow too! All that experience is bound to be locked in the brain somewhere ;)
But you know you've driven a car too long when you turn the key in the two wheeler and keep trying to turn it further and wonder why it doesn't start : ))) I did that yesterday when I went shopping with the older one - only to remember later, that I either need to kick start it or use the button start. I was appalled at how rusted I really did turn out with the two-wheeler ;)
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Lol!!! I really did it reading this - But you know you've driven a car too long when you turn the key in the two wheeler and keep trying to turn it further and wonder why it doesn't start : ))) I did that yesterday
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