"Ehh! Dikhta nahi hai kya (can't you see)?!"
"Mein tere age (gadi) chala raha tha toh muzhe kya pata tu kahan se aa raha hai! (I was driving in front of you so how do I know where you're coming from)"
"Abbe mirror mein nahi kya dekh sakta?! (can't you see in the mirror)"
Last evening, after finally finishing the much dreaded end-sem papers and some whiling away with my friend, I was returning home. It was University Road, one of the few 'good' roads in Pune where average traffic speed is thankfully more thank 50kmph.
I was doing a decent 60 and out of nowhere, this reckless guy comes from behind and cuts lanes and all to overtake - actually overtake would be a much sober word! After going ahead a little, he's back to 'normal' speed because of the traffic. Now I don't generally have this stupid urge, but then I saw an opportunity of overtaking him - rather just passing him, 'coz I was in the first (fast) lane and he was in the middle one. So naturally I sped up. Now this *** decides at the last moment that he should take an acute detour and speed ahead in the first lane which was just clearing up. And as luck would have it, he was in no mood to look into his rear mirror. The result, I hit the brakes hard, honking horn all the way and still nearly collided with the jerk!
Maybe the constant horn made him realise he had just made a ghastly mistake, and slowed down just a bit and steered into the middle lane again. I caught up with him and it was then that we exchanged the above lines in an angry tone, practically yelling at each other!
Just to stress a few accepted things-
1) Guys, the mirrors on a bike are meant for you to see the road behind while changing lanes.
2) Guys, the mirrors on a bike are NOT for you to fix your hair while riding.
3) Girls, the mirrors on your friend's / boy-friend's bike are NOT for you to turn them and fix your hair after getting down. (Or at least turn them back in place!)
4) Guys, removing mirrors does NOT make your bike look 'sleeker' or anything, it'll just kill you someday!
5 comments:
And, don't attempt the return-aggro-overtake without proper hardware :D
Is this you writing or have you got the mirrors on your Dio fixed :P ?
@falconer: Hey the mirrors on my Dio were always in perfect condition man!! :-)
Also, if the friend in question was female, and if the guy who overtook you was on a black bike with a black helmet, there's a finite chance that it was me doing this : http://greysith.blogspot.com/2009/07/pastime.html
:D
@greySith: lol! ya like I wouldn't have noticed you with your alien helmet!! Also the friend in question was not pillion during this incident, I was riding solo.
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