breaking the rules

Q. What is the minimum distance to maintain before a stop sign of a school bus.

A. 30 feet

Wrong answer. 20 feet

Q. What is the minimum time space you should maintain behind a vehicle?

A. 4sec

Wrong answer. 2 sec. Wait for a vehicle to pass and count one thousand one. One thousand two and only then follow.

Q. Which lane do you take while making a left turn from a two-way traffic to another.

A. Left

Wrong answer. Whichever lane is available.

Q. What is the most correct answer while waiting in a signal to take a left turn

a) Have your left indicator on

b) Be on the leftmost lane

c) keep your tires pointing straight before making the turn.

A. a)

Wrong answer. C) always keep tires straight in case a vehicle collides from the back so that your car does not contact with the opposite traffic.
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Final result. 74%. You have failed the test. Please talk to the examiner.

There are two things that are apparent in the US. Spending money and spending more money. Seriously, does anything come for free in this country other than bad news (war). WAIT, even that is taxed.

So this is my plight after a month of careful driving in Minnesota and five years in the U.S without a violation other than a speeding ticket (which was totally unexpected since it was in the middle of Kansas where the speed limits are 75mph and I made the cop’s day by giving him the only human contact for the day. Yew! not like that. Actually, I was with my friends Lalith and Sid. Well, it sounds like an orgy but its so not. And the best part of the speeding violation was not that I got a $120 ticket but that we requested a photograph with the cop handing me the ticket as though I was getting a $10,000 award for winning the Nobel peace prize between white and brown people in the state of Kansas. I secretly wanted the photograph to document the fact that the only other income for the state besides dairy and meat business was speeding tickets and the only white people residing there were cops, the rest were of course Mexicans, who else would slog in the meat industries for $4/hr in the US while the industries made record profits?).

I sincerely believe that the written test is the hardest part of getting a driver’s license in the US, harder than even dealing with white business men or women in Ann Taylor, or retired men behind the steering wheel or even kids in the Minnesota state fair (biggest fair in the country, apparently kids gets wired up with sugar intoxication from fried Oreos, cheese flan and glazed donuts all for under a dollar). The success rates of these tests are 15%, which closely matches the percentage of people working at the Department of motored vehicle (DMV). So, what do you do? The easiest thing is to break the rules. And in the event of getting caught for a violation, no worries, just request a photograph with the cop handing you the ticket and then you can frame both the photo and the ticket in your living room. What the hell, you will at least have a story and make your life interesting rather than being dull and lawful.