KELUTCH KO DABAO!!

KELUTCH KO DABAOO!!!!!!!!!!!

Ah! Summer time! Another academic year comes to an end. It was my vacation after my class 12th. As I was done with all my competitive exams, I was relived to great extent. Now I had time to explore all the things which I missed earlier. So was the case with all my friends. Some started with learning cycles and scooters. As I knew both, I thought I’ll learn to drive a car. I always took this pride. When my friends were still hopping I learnt cycle. When they were meddling with cycles I was meddling with my Scooty. Now was the time for me to learn to drive a car. I was the first one to learn car among my friends! Something to feel proud I thought.

But then I was too lazy to go out and find out about the driving schools. One my friends who couldn’t bear seeing her neighbor KID driving the car, insisted that we should go and learn the car as early as possible. So one evening just as I finished my evening snack, she came and pulled me out. Thus, we were on the hunt for a good driving school. After enquiring in some 5-6 schools, we decided to attend the school where the trainer promised that he would teach us how to drive in just 15 days!!! Hmmm……quite an enterprising person I thought…..

So, thus started my adventure on the busy roads of pearl city-Hyderabad. The first day we were very excited to sit for the first time in the driver’s seat. We were all set to ROCK the roads. But unfortunately our trainer said that our first class would be on mechanismL. The second day was little interesting as were allowed to drive. My friend didn’t want to risk her life first. So, I was the first one to drive on that day. My trainer had to assimilate every bit of his patience to explain things to me. Well, though am born and bought up in Hyderabad, the language over here has always been a problem. When my instructor said “kelutch ko dabaoo”, I was wondering as for which language was he using! Soon I realized that he was asking me to press clutch. So I pressed the ‘kelutch’ and started my adventure putting the lives of the people on the roads at stake!!

Well the second day went on well except for minor accident like me breaking the headlights of the car.My trainer confused me so much with regard to the directions that I had to look at my watch to know the directions! Well that was my condition after 3 days of ‘rigorous’ training.

One fine evening, I was driving smooth on an empty road. It was great relief for my trainer as everything was going on well. So he thought he can make a call to his friend and speak for sometime or something likewise. So just as he picked his phone to speak, there was this sudden advent of buffaloes from nowhere. I was so damn tensed looking at them that I almost drove my vehicle into a person!!! Seeing me driving the car on to a person rather than on the road, my trainer took the charge of the car and moved it aside. Confusion was at its peak then. The poor buffaloes were scared to their wits.

Well can’t blame me as well, because there is this co existence of humans and animals on the roads in our country…During my 15days of training I have learnt many things. In the sense, how to make the car fit even if there is little room left on any busy traffic day( which is almost daily), give the other person ‘ cant you drive properly’ type of looks even if it is your mistake, scold the person on the road with you teeth tightly clinched and drive as fast as possible when there is pool of mud water on the road and spoil the neatly pressed dress of the person who is on his way to attend his first interview.

Hey! Did I mention about the language I have to use when am taking my car to the service station? Well I have to use the words like ‘achelarator’(accelerator), ‘kelutch’ (clutch), ‘bereak’ (break) ,‘espring’ (spring), and ‘horan’(horn)…..

Well with all the confidence my dad has on my driving, I will have wait for another two years to drive his car!! Hmmm…..

So here I go kelutch ko dabaate hooae……………