I'm appalled. What has gotten into the youths of today who do not have respect for age? Agreed the driver erred but is that the way to behave? What if the lady driven Indica was driven by a male?
My late grandfather, who was the Municipal commissioner of Varanasi had two drivers - one personal and one official. One day I as a small kid while going to school called for one of them and said - driver, gaadi lao.
On hearing, my grandfather gave me first a verbal lashing and then a physical. Told me that the driver has a name and should be addressed so.
Learnt a lesson of my life. The same has been passed on to the offsprings as well.
People should be treated with respect. Or was the performance of the 23 yr old prompted by the prescence of the female kind?
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Originally Posted by rocksterraghu  I am not sure if a similar thread exists, but this is based on a street experiece that went like this:
On a Saturday evening, in Hyderabad, where traffic is crowded like you need to have a good measure of 10"X10" before you think of putting your step somewhere, I was going to Begumpet from Yousufguda.
At the Yousufguda junction, there was an Indica coming from Ameerpet, stopped because of the signal at the junction and the driver was trying to take a U-turn (towards Punjagutta). The traffic from the opposite side was flowing as usual, since they had the green. A lady driver, driving an Indica rammed into this Indica that was taking a U-turn (I hope you get the scene). The front bumpers of both cars were broken and the lady driver stopped the car and continued to sit inside the car. The passengers in the U-turn taking Indica got out and I saw that it was chauffer driven. The owner was about 25-30 year old and the driver was in his mid 50's. The owner of the car started beating up his old driver right in the middle of the road.
The public, however, continued to look at the incident as though it was a common thing to have 'sympathy' for lady drivers. One of them said "It is common, when a lady driver is involved, the other driver (male) gets this".
In this case, it was wrong on the part of the old driver to take a U-turn. But, I have seen incidents where women who can hardly handle a two-wheeler and get their Kinetics and Scootys and keep them dangling on the road and when they meet with an accident, the other driver is beaten up.
Agreed, the old driver erred. But was it so bad that the owner had to beat him up till his nose bled? I walked up to the owner and I said "Sir, let go of him. Mistakes do happen. Don't you see he is an old man, I am not trying to advise, but it is a sincere request".
The owner said "You don't know, sir, these people think all these spares come for free. And moreover, it is a lady driver on the other side".
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