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7 commandments

The seven commandments to be followed when driving a 2 wheeler on Indian Roads in general and Bangalore roads in particular

  1.  Thou shall respect the big vehicles like trucks because they can crush you to death and they have every intention of doing so.
  2.   Thou shall respect the BMTC busses and stay several feet away from them for they turn where they want and when they want without looking left or right.
  3.  Thou shall respect three wheelers(autos) because their bark is worse than their bite
  4.  Thou shall respect young two wheeler riders because they zoom past you at 200 kmph not bothering whether they hurt you, knock you, kill you or for that matter kill themselves.
  5.  Thou shall respect lady drivers like thyself, because they are terrorized by all the above mentioned people and they are confused and they repent being on the road instead of sitting safely behind the spouse and hence slow down suddenly, speed up suddenly and are perfectly unpredictable
  6.  Thou shall respect the traffic police and not cross any red signals, for the traffic cops turn their blind eye to erring male drivers and always catch you whenever you cross the red signal
  7.  Thou shall respect the pedestrians for they will suddenly decide to cross the road not looking left or right, they will have their ears plugged with songs and are deaf to your honking.

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