I finally gathered courage to join driving classes. This morning a set of us newbies were bunched into a Trax and taken to the RTO. Being the only "ladies" in the group I was asked to sit in front with the driver. The RTO is tucked away in an almost inaccessible corner of Tardeo... inaccessible to vehicles that is... someone in authority has a funny bone. Somehow we managed to reach in one piece. As usual the people in charge (policemen) wore their best "I-wanna-kill-you" expressions" and we "kacha" licence walas cowered in the corner. One by one out forms were verfied and then there was more waiting while all the guys stared at anything that looked female.
Then the herd was taken to a hall where we were given token numbers - again the "ladies" got special treatment and almost immediately my number was called. After being photographed, fingerprinted and all we were asked to wait for the "Test". All around us in the waiting room there were large boards with possible questions put up with three options. The driving school had also given me a peice of paper with all road signs.
The testing area was funky. We were all assigned numbers and seated accordingly. There was a table with a there-buttoned instrument kept in front of every chair. These were labled A,B and C. The test consisted of ten questions with three options each. You had to score 6 or above to pass. I got 9 (I knew the answer to the 10th one but pressed the wrong button in hurry). The questions were very easy, but surprisingly a few people failed. The failed ones were detained in the room while the rest were asked to leave. As I was walking out a random guy came up to me and said, "Thank you madam". I asked, "What for?". He said, "I was sitting behind you and copied all your answers". I felt like punching him in the nose, but my self-preservation instinct took over and I didn't. Tomorrow I start terrorizing the roads.
4 comments:
All the best!
One more 'ladies' driver on the road.
For once you did something nice that too unawares and you wanted to punch the beneficiary and add to your paap. The kind of knowledge like the questions you answered are going to be of any help. I suggest take lessons from that copycat guy about how to dabao the rickshaws if you are driving a big vehicle, how to try to overtake 3 best buses in a row without climbing on the road divider and so on.
Power to the ladieses. You did it to it.
@B- Ess Saar. But saar I don't want to be responsible for a bad driver (read taxi driver) on the road who will refuse to ply me when he finally gets his liesun. Hopefully by then I will also get liesun and drive my own vehicle.
rofl@the guy who sat behind you!! =)))
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