Its one of those things that you never admit aloud. You never admit to our best friend that if she dumps her boyfriend you would love to date him. You never admit to your father that long before he allowed you to have a drink with him,u had had many nights of drunken revelry.You also never admit that you feel happier when your husband introduces you to a colleague who is short, freckled and ugly than one who has long legs and a nice ass.You never admit to that orgasm you faked or that while you told your boss that you were out on a client call you were giving your next job interview. So we all agree that we never agree to a lot of things openly . Here's something I have to admit that i haven't done till now. "women are bad drivers".There i said it.Although girls can drive men crazy ,men drive their cars better.i admit it.Now this statement coming from a girl can lead to two things . 1. being a woman myself and saying we look like jokers behind the steering wheel is betraying my own race .Or it can also mean that i am being very very objective. But I don't want it to mean any of this.
What i am saying is from experience.It is just the difference between natural skill and acquired skill. Women are natural nurturers just as men are natural destroyers. Similarly men naturally connect to their cars while women unnaturally try acquiring it but never really achieve the same degree of intimacy that a man does with his four wheels. How many times have we noticed that men will silently brave the sickness of a family member,a broken wrist of a friend or there own tooth ache but cringe and fret and do it all so loudly when there is a bump or scratch on there beloved car. For men car is what skin means to women. Just like a pimple on our face can make us go into a frenzy and believe that Apocalypse in near for men an almost invisible scratch on the car can spell cataclysmic doom. But I just don't get it.Whats the big deal in admitting that men drive better than us. This neither suggests that we are dumb,or less intelligent or less fortunate than men. Infact what pleasure is there in being called perfect chauffeurs? I believe women are the most beautiful of nature's creations who deserve to be pampered and driven around. And anyway delicate stilettos were never meant to be pushing accelerators (aaah the pain of a broken heel)!!
But my feminist sisters will be up in arms and I wonder why!!! i just said women cant drive so what!!!i dint say they shouldn't be born or die on their husband's pyre. I for one drive everyday to work.I love driving because it gives me a sense of freedom and allows my hair to remain in place -something that would be next to impossible if i had to commute by autos. Ask a man and he would not even have a reason.Driving there car is perhaps the next most natural thing to them apart from watching porn. In both cases the act being important that what it signifies.I also admit that although after ears of practice I have acquired the skill of driving commendably men have a natural ability to boast off.
Now it cant be a mere co-incidence that every time you see two cars facing each other in narrow by lanes of Delhi trying to go there separate ways ,it takes considerably longer when one of them is a female driver and takes forever if both are girls. For some strange reason the decision making ability , time and space management, danger gauging antennas work slower when we are locked in tin boxes that we in sophisticated terms call cars. Our intuition although works best when it comes to men, can never successfully decipher where our headlights end and sum one Else's bumper starts.
I would like to divide the car driving women into 3 broad categories.
a)the 50 plus mataji's ,mala jaapoing in the red light and driving themselves and there friends to satsangs and kitty parties. Such species always drive cars that seat one person in the front seat next to the mataji driving and always fits more than the prescribed number of people in the back seat. They drive their cars in the middle track,never go beyond 35km/hr. They will crane their necks like an Ostrich to see what lies in front.It is advisable to never drive behind them which can lead to acute heart burn and headache as nothing can make them go faster or give you way inspite of repeatedly honking.Since they are all the time praying, god is on there side and you end up late for office.
b)The second category comprises of 35-40 plus aunties. Smart looking, efficient and extremely self congratulatory in nature they are very proud of the fact that they have mastered the skill of ruling the 4 wheels. Although they are sufficiently good in maneuvering there cars on roads and even cross the 60km/hr mark they meet their doom in tricky situations when it comes to reversing their cars or parking equidistant from other cars parked. They are vocal about there disgust for fellow male drivers .will stare,honk and shout real loud if you come dangerously close. It is advisable to stay clear of their path as an accident will warrant an unfortunate altercation with the ladies calling up their husband and brothers who invariable belong to positions of power.
c)This third category are the ones most efficient and skillful with their cars.They were the first ones in their families to get enrolled in a driving school right after class 12th.they drive cars gifted to them by their dads ,use the old ones handed down by their elder siblings and some even buy it with their own salary through monthly installments. They are the most aggressive, outspoken and impatient. They never wait their turn.would be the first to push their car through any gap or opening they see on the road.will make obscene gestures if you piss them off and mouth abusives if you over take.they come closest to hotheaded men driving cars,their only problem being they never use the brain hidden under the pretty feather head.They will position their cars in such a position that allows neither them not the other party to drive away. since this number is growing it is advisable to never brush them or their car the wrong way,.they show disgust for not just men but other women drivers as well.inexplicable but true they feel that although other women cant drive this stereotype doesn't include them.
But there is a flip side to this too.Statistics show that the maximum accident that occur,the most number of road rage cases all involve men. Women do well by erring on the side of caution which i think is any day advisable. Since natural flair for driving is what we are devoid of, it makes sense to put into practice all virtues of patience,forbearance and foresight. I recently had a road scare with a man rashly overtaking my car but i have had similar cases with women shouting, impatiently honking and rudely pushing ahead with their cars. I have a feeling that this stat is soon going to change and sadly against women with the number of female drivers i have come across. Just as in office a female boss does not mean empathy but rather a PMSing ,always on my case demon same is with the case of female drivers on road. It certainly is not the same thing as having polite always smiling women in the hospitality industry. we have to deal with female boss type Pmsing prototypes impatient;ly honking away.Although men are involved in most cases of bad driving it does not qualify us as better drivers. Accidents are like silly spelling mistakes and flair for driving is like having a command over your mother tongue. Its like saying not making spelling mistakes makes that language automatically your mother tongue!!!How absurd is that.
I don't know how many feathers i have ruffled but i do know that admitting that i am not as good as men behind the wheel has always helped me. So instead of shouting like men or foolhardily driving on in my car i don't mind flashing my dipper, rolling down the window and saying i cant reverse or simple flashing a smile acting a damsel in distress.at least the men have a gratifying sense that they are in control and give me my parking space and last laugh!!!! Women through practice are becoming better drivers but lets just say driving is a man's mother tongue while for us its still a fashionable foreign language.
What i am saying is from experience.It is just the difference between natural skill and acquired skill. Women are natural nurturers just as men are natural destroyers. Similarly men naturally connect to their cars while women unnaturally try acquiring it but never really achieve the same degree of intimacy that a man does with his four wheels. How many times have we noticed that men will silently brave the sickness of a family member,a broken wrist of a friend or there own tooth ache but cringe and fret and do it all so loudly when there is a bump or scratch on there beloved car. For men car is what skin means to women. Just like a pimple on our face can make us go into a frenzy and believe that Apocalypse in near for men an almost invisible scratch on the car can spell cataclysmic doom. But I just don't get it.Whats the big deal in admitting that men drive better than us. This neither suggests that we are dumb,or less intelligent or less fortunate than men. Infact what pleasure is there in being called perfect chauffeurs? I believe women are the most beautiful of nature's creations who deserve to be pampered and driven around. And anyway delicate stilettos were never meant to be pushing accelerators (aaah the pain of a broken heel)!!
But my feminist sisters will be up in arms and I wonder why!!! i just said women cant drive so what!!!i dint say they shouldn't be born or die on their husband's pyre. I for one drive everyday to work.I love driving because it gives me a sense of freedom and allows my hair to remain in place -something that would be next to impossible if i had to commute by autos. Ask a man and he would not even have a reason.Driving there car is perhaps the next most natural thing to them apart from watching porn. In both cases the act being important that what it signifies.I also admit that although after ears of practice I have acquired the skill of driving commendably men have a natural ability to boast off.
Now it cant be a mere co-incidence that every time you see two cars facing each other in narrow by lanes of Delhi trying to go there separate ways ,it takes considerably longer when one of them is a female driver and takes forever if both are girls. For some strange reason the decision making ability , time and space management, danger gauging antennas work slower when we are locked in tin boxes that we in sophisticated terms call cars. Our intuition although works best when it comes to men, can never successfully decipher where our headlights end and sum one Else's bumper starts.
I would like to divide the car driving women into 3 broad categories.
a)the 50 plus mataji's ,mala jaapoing in the red light and driving themselves and there friends to satsangs and kitty parties. Such species always drive cars that seat one person in the front seat next to the mataji driving and always fits more than the prescribed number of people in the back seat. They drive their cars in the middle track,never go beyond 35km/hr. They will crane their necks like an Ostrich to see what lies in front.It is advisable to never drive behind them which can lead to acute heart burn and headache as nothing can make them go faster or give you way inspite of repeatedly honking.Since they are all the time praying, god is on there side and you end up late for office.
b)The second category comprises of 35-40 plus aunties. Smart looking, efficient and extremely self congratulatory in nature they are very proud of the fact that they have mastered the skill of ruling the 4 wheels. Although they are sufficiently good in maneuvering there cars on roads and even cross the 60km/hr mark they meet their doom in tricky situations when it comes to reversing their cars or parking equidistant from other cars parked. They are vocal about there disgust for fellow male drivers .will stare,honk and shout real loud if you come dangerously close. It is advisable to stay clear of their path as an accident will warrant an unfortunate altercation with the ladies calling up their husband and brothers who invariable belong to positions of power.
c)This third category are the ones most efficient and skillful with their cars.They were the first ones in their families to get enrolled in a driving school right after class 12th.they drive cars gifted to them by their dads ,use the old ones handed down by their elder siblings and some even buy it with their own salary through monthly installments. They are the most aggressive, outspoken and impatient. They never wait their turn.would be the first to push their car through any gap or opening they see on the road.will make obscene gestures if you piss them off and mouth abusives if you over take.they come closest to hotheaded men driving cars,their only problem being they never use the brain hidden under the pretty feather head.They will position their cars in such a position that allows neither them not the other party to drive away. since this number is growing it is advisable to never brush them or their car the wrong way,.they show disgust for not just men but other women drivers as well.inexplicable but true they feel that although other women cant drive this stereotype doesn't include them.
But there is a flip side to this too.Statistics show that the maximum accident that occur,the most number of road rage cases all involve men. Women do well by erring on the side of caution which i think is any day advisable. Since natural flair for driving is what we are devoid of, it makes sense to put into practice all virtues of patience,forbearance and foresight. I recently had a road scare with a man rashly overtaking my car but i have had similar cases with women shouting, impatiently honking and rudely pushing ahead with their cars. I have a feeling that this stat is soon going to change and sadly against women with the number of female drivers i have come across. Just as in office a female boss does not mean empathy but rather a PMSing ,always on my case demon same is with the case of female drivers on road. It certainly is not the same thing as having polite always smiling women in the hospitality industry. we have to deal with female boss type Pmsing prototypes impatient;ly honking away.Although men are involved in most cases of bad driving it does not qualify us as better drivers. Accidents are like silly spelling mistakes and flair for driving is like having a command over your mother tongue. Its like saying not making spelling mistakes makes that language automatically your mother tongue!!!How absurd is that.
I don't know how many feathers i have ruffled but i do know that admitting that i am not as good as men behind the wheel has always helped me. So instead of shouting like men or foolhardily driving on in my car i don't mind flashing my dipper, rolling down the window and saying i cant reverse or simple flashing a smile acting a damsel in distress.at least the men have a gratifying sense that they are in control and give me my parking space and last laugh!!!! Women through practice are becoming better drivers but lets just say driving is a man's mother tongue while for us its still a fashionable foreign language.
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