Women drivers – oh, don’t tell me about them. They drive like they are walking in the park. Believe me man, they don’t know how to drive, the take up the whole road, they don’t move and they don’t even have good reflex. You know what – they should not drive, or we should keep a line separate for them. This is the kind of reaction you get from the average Joe if you talk about women drivers. People do accept women as their equals in corporate world, at homes, but strangely, when it comes to road, it is like a male owned territory and many guys treat women like trespassers. And try overtaking them and man, you have just let the gate of hell wide open. The hurt male ego will brook nothing till they overtake you.
Now, guys don’t jump on m e- I am not saying every one of us is like that, there are guys like that. But though there are guys like that, we are not ready to accept it. I agree not every female driver is good and there are ladies who drive irresponsibly but there are guys like that too. So why brand lady drives as a whole for the act done by few?
I came across a feature in Auto India about this subject last month, and the author recounts an incident happened to her. She was driving home after a party with her friends, and they spotted a car crawling along, giving confused signals and not budging from the road, and the guys spotted long flowing hair and started making fun of lady drivers. At last, when the author overtook the car, they saw a bearded face – it was a guy who was driving the car, not a lady.
I, personally believe there are only two kind of drivers – those who know how to drive and those who don’t know how to drive. And gender doesn’t have anything to do with it. I have seen excellent male drivers and crappie male drivers who should put behind bar if ever you find them behind the driving wheel, and I have seen the same with ladies too.
So, when next time the discussion is about male-female drives, please don’t pain the whole side with one color – remember, it is the individual who drives and it is the ability of the individual which matters, not gender.
Drive / ride long and drive / ride safe.
(this blog is inspired by the article published in July 2008 Auto India – She Drives… under the section In Focus and is written by Vineetha Mokkil)
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Wednesday, April 16, 2008
A turnaround...
Sometimes, when you see something and decide that you want it, no matter how hard you have to try.
It was same feeling I had when I saw the magazine Auto India for the first time in my life.
I was and always an automobile freak. I used to ask my dad to cut out the automobile ads I see in the news paper, and i used to take them to school to tell my friends about them.
And I still vividly remember asking my dad to get me a Swaraj Mazda pickup if i top the class. :-)
That day I was traveling with my grand mother and we where waiting in a bus stand to catch bus to our village. to pass time, I went to the book stall to ogle at the hot females on film magazine covers and there I saw a magazine which made my heart skip a beat - AutoIndia. At that time, pocket money was a concept unheard of for me, so I couldn’t do nothing but just ogle till our bus came.
Next year I joined college and I was adamant that I had to buy the magazine every month. But without pocket money, that was a distant dream but then I found out another way to get my hands on them - the second hand book sellers. I used to save 1 rupee here and 1 rupee there and used to buy the old copy for 5 rupee every weekend when I go to Thrissur for my entrance coaching class. Then I found a way to get my hands on the new issue - save money by skipping food. Dad used to give me money to have a late evening snack since i was going to Thrissur - a town about 50 km from my home - for entrance tuition. By kipping food and saving a penny here and there, I always used to manage to buy the magazine - and it was the best auto magazine at that time. There where couple of other magazines such as Car&Bike international, Indian Auto, Motoring etc, but my pick was Auto India.
When I joined for my Bachelors, the story changed - I used to get more money, and a new shiny magazine got launched - Autocar India. The magazine was launched by the erstwhile editor of Auto India, and lot of talented guys from Auto India came over to ACI, and the quality of Auto India went down the drains. From the very first issue, I converted to a ACI fan, and stopped buying AutoIndia. Lot of water went under the bridge - and I changed and then changed. But one thing never changed was my habit of buying ACI (and any other auto mags which I can afford) every month. In between, i got a 1 year free subscription of Auto India, but it never got my enthusiasm running to grab a copy as soon as it hits the stand.
But now times are changing. Last month, I picked the magazine upon the recommendation of my friend Sooraj and man - they have done a 180 degree turn in quality. The magazine is slowly climbing back to the spot it enjoyed long time back. Way to go, man. I sure want them to see on top again, and from this month, I have started buying it regularly...
It was same feeling I had when I saw the magazine Auto India for the first time in my life.
I was and always an automobile freak. I used to ask my dad to cut out the automobile ads I see in the news paper, and i used to take them to school to tell my friends about them.
And I still vividly remember asking my dad to get me a Swaraj Mazda pickup if i top the class. :-)
That day I was traveling with my grand mother and we where waiting in a bus stand to catch bus to our village. to pass time, I went to the book stall to ogle at the hot females on film magazine covers and there I saw a magazine which made my heart skip a beat - AutoIndia. At that time, pocket money was a concept unheard of for me, so I couldn’t do nothing but just ogle till our bus came.
Next year I joined college and I was adamant that I had to buy the magazine every month. But without pocket money, that was a distant dream but then I found out another way to get my hands on them - the second hand book sellers. I used to save 1 rupee here and 1 rupee there and used to buy the old copy for 5 rupee every weekend when I go to Thrissur for my entrance coaching class. Then I found a way to get my hands on the new issue - save money by skipping food. Dad used to give me money to have a late evening snack since i was going to Thrissur - a town about 50 km from my home - for entrance tuition. By kipping food and saving a penny here and there, I always used to manage to buy the magazine - and it was the best auto magazine at that time. There where couple of other magazines such as Car&Bike international, Indian Auto, Motoring etc, but my pick was Auto India.
When I joined for my Bachelors, the story changed - I used to get more money, and a new shiny magazine got launched - Autocar India. The magazine was launched by the erstwhile editor of Auto India, and lot of talented guys from Auto India came over to ACI, and the quality of Auto India went down the drains. From the very first issue, I converted to a ACI fan, and stopped buying AutoIndia. Lot of water went under the bridge - and I changed and then changed. But one thing never changed was my habit of buying ACI (and any other auto mags which I can afford) every month. In between, i got a 1 year free subscription of Auto India, but it never got my enthusiasm running to grab a copy as soon as it hits the stand.
But now times are changing. Last month, I picked the magazine upon the recommendation of my friend Sooraj and man - they have done a 180 degree turn in quality. The magazine is slowly climbing back to the spot it enjoyed long time back. Way to go, man. I sure want them to see on top again, and from this month, I have started buying it regularly...
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