Again, it's been a while. Hello. Did you miss me? I would think so. You know, sometimes I like to imagine that someone on the other end reading this actually replies out loud. Feeble hopes, but still it's something that I think about everyday. I don't know what I am saying.
In my last two blogs, I had decided to add content specific titles to the blog, but the only good title ideas I have are too long. So here goes.
''I got my license and I can now drive like an adult so please do not restrict me from driving the car that I want I am begging you!!!!"
Boom. Said it. I passed my final test on 13th January. It was a bit late from my schedule. Basically, Dubai has a system where to get a driving license, you have to register to a driving school and learn under a government-certified instructor. You can't learn from just anyone. Unless of course, if you have a license in another country where traffic moves on the right side of the road like USA, you just have to give the driving test and if you pass you get a license. If you're from India or UK or countries travelling on the left side of the road, you have to learn to drive here mandatory. Coming back to my earlier statement, if a student were to pass the final RTA road test before their birthday, they would have the license delivered to them. My birthday is on the 9th of January. It was a bit disappointing. Regardless, I passed the test in my first attempt LYK A BAUSE.
Apparently it extremely difficult to pass in the first attempt on your final test, mainly because of the pressure of a police officer sitting next to you, and in my case, driving a manual type vehicle. What can I say, I aced it. I was so smooth it was incredible. The other student with me failed though, which destroyed a bit of my joy, as that was his second attempt at it. It happens.
So my parents own two cars. They're both 4x4s, one's an American attempt at connecting with the nativity of their land, the Jeep Cherokee, and the other's the brainchild of one Adolf Hitler, the Volkswagon Toureg. Both incredible vehicles, very fast and very nice. The Jeep is an absolute beast. It's a 2012 model, compared to the newer versions is a lot better looking since the new version has been made to look a lot sleeker. My sister's got a car as well. It's her first car so we got a Nissan Sentra.
Now, in regards with the title. Tell me, doesn't it in your mind, make just a tiny bit of sense to trust a person with a valid license to drive your car? Right? In an ideal world, it would make perfect sense to allow a sane individual to drive any car he/she wanted. It doesn't work that way apparently. Turns out you don't get to drive the big car as you won't understand how to control it.
It's frustrating how we want to make an ideal world but everyone just shrugs off the various ideas it takes to build said world. Like for this instance, say I was the person in the above situation, if that been already clear to you yet. Doesn't it make sense that in order for me to understand how to take control of said big car, I should first be able to drive it? Not that difficult of a thought is it. Instead of sitting in the back seat and trying to decipher the weight and gait of the car, the only place where I can make sense of it all is in the driver's seat. Not that hard to contemplate is it? Not asking for a lot either, but for some reason it has been made such a big deal of, the whole issue is like a rubber band that keeps stretching. It will never regain it's original shape or form, just like the conversations and arguments that are had over such an issue.
In my last two blogs, I had decided to add content specific titles to the blog, but the only good title ideas I have are too long. So here goes.
''I got my license and I can now drive like an adult so please do not restrict me from driving the car that I want I am begging you!!!!"
Boom. Said it. I passed my final test on 13th January. It was a bit late from my schedule. Basically, Dubai has a system where to get a driving license, you have to register to a driving school and learn under a government-certified instructor. You can't learn from just anyone. Unless of course, if you have a license in another country where traffic moves on the right side of the road like USA, you just have to give the driving test and if you pass you get a license. If you're from India or UK or countries travelling on the left side of the road, you have to learn to drive here mandatory. Coming back to my earlier statement, if a student were to pass the final RTA road test before their birthday, they would have the license delivered to them. My birthday is on the 9th of January. It was a bit disappointing. Regardless, I passed the test in my first attempt LYK A BAUSE.
Apparently it extremely difficult to pass in the first attempt on your final test, mainly because of the pressure of a police officer sitting next to you, and in my case, driving a manual type vehicle. What can I say, I aced it. I was so smooth it was incredible. The other student with me failed though, which destroyed a bit of my joy, as that was his second attempt at it. It happens.
So my parents own two cars. They're both 4x4s, one's an American attempt at connecting with the nativity of their land, the Jeep Cherokee, and the other's the brainchild of one Adolf Hitler, the Volkswagon Toureg. Both incredible vehicles, very fast and very nice. The Jeep is an absolute beast. It's a 2012 model, compared to the newer versions is a lot better looking since the new version has been made to look a lot sleeker. My sister's got a car as well. It's her first car so we got a Nissan Sentra.
Now, in regards with the title. Tell me, doesn't it in your mind, make just a tiny bit of sense to trust a person with a valid license to drive your car? Right? In an ideal world, it would make perfect sense to allow a sane individual to drive any car he/she wanted. It doesn't work that way apparently. Turns out you don't get to drive the big car as you won't understand how to control it.
It's frustrating how we want to make an ideal world but everyone just shrugs off the various ideas it takes to build said world. Like for this instance, say I was the person in the above situation, if that been already clear to you yet. Doesn't it make sense that in order for me to understand how to take control of said big car, I should first be able to drive it? Not that difficult of a thought is it. Instead of sitting in the back seat and trying to decipher the weight and gait of the car, the only place where I can make sense of it all is in the driver's seat. Not that hard to contemplate is it? Not asking for a lot either, but for some reason it has been made such a big deal of, the whole issue is like a rubber band that keeps stretching. It will never regain it's original shape or form, just like the conversations and arguments that are had over such an issue.
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