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Monday, September 20, 2004 i walked for a good ten minutes in this sweltering heat of the desert, each minute the sun threatening to sap all of me into a faint...but i walked and walked until i reached that place i knew of on this strech of the road that would get me connected and i update my kvetch log.many things happened yesterday...i was terribly depressed last morning, feeling lowly of lows, even that stupidly stupid sms from ikloti could not get me out of that dark mood. i was due for my third road test at 1:30 and i was still at home at 1:15 pm...so i rushed out of the house, hailed a cab and asked the cabbie to step on it...and drop me at BDC...i was still 7 minutes late for the test. not a very nice start. once seated i saw familiar faces around...all those who were with me and failed in the last test too. sat with them awhile and joked about a it to gather my spread all over the nerves a bit. then i heard the inspectress announce a name like mine...by the time i walked over to the other side they had already left leaving me and the other lady wondering if they were our names...when we saw another candidate step out of the test car and walk towards us, we knew we had started on the wrong note, again. anyways...both ladies were reluctant to drive first...it is a tricky part, to get the car out of the instituite...so i sat in first...the inspectress asked me to to turn right...i signalled left and turned the steering right..."turn right" she repeated, as i realised and cursed myslef for another wrong start...vehicle start is one of the five 'pass-fail' points and i was sure as hell i had blown it from the word 'right'. the i took three U turns, which all went fine, Alhamdolillah, and changed lanes, left, right, left again...and u turn. it was the last U turn which was a close call. the road wasn't empty enough to give me enough lane changing space and time...but i stepped on the accelerator and rushed into the left most lane...it was then i felt her slightly pressing on her brakes...a sure sign that i would be marked 'hazard on the roads' and a branded a failure, again. right after the turn, she asked me to park...another sign that i was a gone case. as i left the drivers seat for the other lady, i was in a depression again...failed again...but then the second candidate started driving and i had to come out of my gloom...boy! was she terrible on the road...when she came back and say with me as the third candidate took her turn at the wheels, she signalled to me that i had passed..she had seen my paper marked so...i wasn't sure however...i knew this inspectress from last time and she got a kick out of marking circles on the report paper...like she did last time...ignoring my pleas and marking circles as she told me all the areas i was wrong in...endind with a " i will see your beautiful face next week" God! i said to myself, Lady, my face is not pretty enough that i appear in a road test every week just to please you...and it signals death for my bank account...so i still wasn't sure what was the status of my result sheet. and then the last candidate drove us back to the institute and te inspectress told us all to go in. we came in and looked out of the glass window as she sat in the car and gave finishing touches to the papers...and as she (as appeared to us) mimed our mistakes to another inspector. i was in such a turmoil...part smiling, part apprehensive...i so wanted to believe that other lady who told me she had seen me marked pass and yet i knew i won't make it even this time because of that last U turn...and then the inspectress came in...she gave the papers to everyone with a thank you...mine was handed out last...with just a 'PAS' scrawled write across it...i just stood there for a while...not sure what to do...then i called up home and told my rother about it...his reaction...'so?' and a bit of fun at my expense. next i called up my sis and she asked me if the inspectress' sight was OK. grrrr...then i called bhai and said guess what? and he guessed... i never call up people when i fail a test...and so it was...i had passed my road test...i will get my driving license tomorrow!!! and the crowning glory was Pakistan's win over India later that day! felicitations welcome. treat: you come over here and i would drive you around this seven hours drive big country. :D |
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