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M2S, hats off to you if you are as cool as you are making yourself out to be - we really need to emulate your actions & there'd be far lesser cases of road rage. I mean, if I'm minding my own business & driving along a main thoroughfare & someone comes & whacks me from my right & I smile & carry on - LOL, as I said, hats off mate
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If whacking the c*** out of someone makes the dent disappear or things any better, I won't hesitate to bring my baseball bat out in 1 sec but sigh! it doesn't. No doubt it hurts but at the end of it all, the damage has been done and what I belive in is that one should not let the damage trickle onto himself.
Suman Da, you of all the people would be aware of what happens, here in Delhi or Gurgaon. Who knows you get out to beat the a$$ of someone and instead up getting shot at or end up getting roughed up by a Jat. Is it really worth the effort when we know that insurance would cover most of the expenses. If beating the crap out of someone, dragging them to the police station, getting them arrested, fighting the case, winning, was
worth the effort, won't the drivers be a lot more responsible. Instead, what they do is, reach the police station and 1 tries to put the blame on the other. What do you think would have happened in this Scenario. Wouldn't really go this far for a minor scratch. Of course! if it's a irresponsible kid driving or some drunk driver, bring it on baby! But a lady? I would rather spend the money getting the car repaired rather than running around in courts and feeding the vultures.
Also, would
you really get off and argue with a lady on the road?
The least thing I would want to return home is without my dignity. These very thoughts keep me away from bashing someone up and also helps in focusing on other issues at hand, like finding a better way to reach my home as both the entry points suck!
No luck so far and have to move my darling on a bumpy patch but that's gurgaon, Ain't it?
This apart, let me not be a hypocryte. I do curse inside my car the way people drive and do get ticked off as well, but have learnt to control things inside. Maybe, just maybe, One day I would let off the steam. Who knows! Till that happens, I'm cool.
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Traffic coming at right angles across a main thoroughfare ( based on his diagram) gets right of way? You sure about this? |
Absolutely!! Round about or no round about, the person on your right side should be given the side as the person on the right is watching things to his weaker side, the left side and can have a judgement error. No Harm in stopping and letting someone go through first. Be it the road or the que at the departmental store.
If you look at the diagram again the following 2 scenario's come to my mind
1. Gods-envy was driving close to the median
2. Gods-envy was driving in the middle of the road and moved due to the shattered glass
Scenario 1
If he was driving in the middle of the road, he turned to the right due to the shattered glass, as a result of which, the lady driver would have been unsure as to which way did he wish to go and was caught off-guard. Hence, he should have been almost at a stop-go scenario rather than just swerving his car and avoiding it.
Scenario 2
If he was driving right next to the median, again, in order to view the vehicle coming from the right side, he should have been much slower almost in a stop-go scenario again.
Had that been the case, he would have stopped and the lady would have gone by.
Normally what happens is that we keep on thinking that we have the side and that the other person would stop and this is what leads to a crash. Why not think that the other person
will not stop and we should stop. That what I think, right, left and center.
Hope this helps
Cheers!
M2S