Sunday, July 3, 2011

A lil bit of control..

Met a wonderful couple in their 70's. Golden years  !
The husband (Mr. Bose) was in forest services and he sure loves to drive his vehicles fast. Ghats, city traffic, unknown terrain - he just keeps driving fast.

While taking a ride with him, he driving, Mrs. Bose in passenger seat, and bunch of us in the back seat, and as usual complaining about Bangalore traffic, we noticed one unique thing.

As he drives criss-cross ducking all BLR hurdles and traffic, his vehicle screams out two types if horns.
Two distinct sounds !

Finally, while having lunch, we asked ! Why two types of horns ? There he spills the secret. In his vehicle, there is one horn for the driver, and another one controlled by the passenger seat.

And that's because, Mrs. Bose was always afraid of driving fast, no matter how clean is Mr. Bose's driving record. And to just calm her down while driving, he had devised this technique. Wherever, she felt the car is out of control she honked, from the passenger seat.

She was a co-driver in a way !! And that kept her calm. She needs that even to her 70's.

1 comment:

Achala said...

what a sweet gesture of love.....sigh!!!!