normally i hate traveling in the auto rickshaw. basically i hate the part when the auto rickshaw guy cheats us and tries to fleece us and drives around rashly.
but today i was happy i did. because i realized that even today there are sensible Indians alive.
while on my way to IIT-Delhi, i had hired an auto rickshaw and that guy simply asked the just price. this guy who was about 60, turned out to be an honest person, because from my experience, the older drivers are often rude and stubborn, and end up being the cheats. on the way, there was a fire brigade rushing to someplace. this auto driver was among the few people who actually bothered to give way to the fire brigade. i noticed that a lot of drivers just grabbed the opportunity to cut tight corners, partly blocking the path in front of the fire brigade. i was really furious, but i noticed that this auto driver did his best to avoid blocking the road in front of the fire brigade. when i asked him why, he simply said, that it is the basic decent thing to do. he also told me, that when he was young, a driving test that he took for the first time had a question.
the question went like this,who gets a priority over a traffic situation. define the order of priority from high to low:
the president's motorcade, the fire brigade, an ambulance.
the answer was: fire brigade gets the highest, followed by ambulance, and then the president's motorcade.
I hope this question should be answered by each and every Indian.
