[1: 191 of 10,000] Steering Wheel

The best driver that I know in my entire existence is my father. Whenever he’s behind wheel, I have the sense of comfort and would care less if I fell sound asleep because I know when I wake up we’ve reached our destination and not just me waking up as a soul and looking at my dead body (sorry too morbid). I describe his driving as suave smooth, he knows exactly when to step on the brake without shaking all the passengers and jolting the whole vehicle into worst halt.

I was really excited when my father started teaching me to drive, I thought I am learning from the best and I could be as good as he is. With studies, work on the way, and finally Dad passed away, my driving lesson ceased and I got to rely on driving school (1-day lesson, absolutely ridiculous), hiring a driver to sit beside me the whole time while am driving (crazy I know but this is how my mom thought I’d learn better and faster, hire a driver who doesn’t drive for you but teach you on how to do it, if I’ve remembered it correctly, that particular teacher if not hired by me would lined up as driver double for the movie ‘The Fast And The Furious’), and finally simply learn from experience. I am still not a good driver but I don’t think am the worst, I am planning to enroll myself to ensure I avoid the following: traffic fines and getting my car painted with another color because a bus kiss its cheeks (happened once, I was driving a silver car and an orange bus scratched mine when it insisted to pass through me, no big accident, but the bus’s paint was applied like a blushed on to my car, oh I didn’t know that until I reached home, park the car, and saw the passenger’s door; of course I was in shock, orange on silver blushed on – not flattering!).

It’s a big responsibility to drive; it’s a joke driving without proper knowledge on the correct techniques because lives are at stake. So to all drivers out there especially the ones in charged for public transportation, whose chosen profession is to move passenger from one place to another, remember to follow the traffic rules enforced in the country where you’re driving, for your safety and everyone’s. As Dubai RTA (Roads & Transport Authority) reminds – “If you want to speed up, remember you family.”