36.0 Can You Learn Driving Without Sticking 'L' Board? It Made All Crazy

Driving a vehicle was a dream when I was a kid and, I wanted to drive an off-road vehicle, according to that dream. I wanted to visit the green areas and roads in my country by driving that vehicle. 

I did not dream about the participants. Whoever would love to join my journey would be my participants. But definitely there will be my camera stuff to capture my memories digitally.

 

So, before moving to one of my new job opportunities, I wanted to learn driving. Therefore, I went to driving school with my sister. Though she did not come until the end, I completed the entire course. There were a few instructors and one instructor was a kind person while the other was a tough one. Luckily, we got that kind-hearted uncle as our instructor. He did not blame anyone, and he could teach the necessary things by adding a few jokes as well. So, it was a fun trip for all of us.

On the very first day, he asked me to come to the driving seat and drive. I was so happy when seeing that the van was moving according to my actions. It was a manual driving and, he asked me to drive in third gear for the entire trip on that day. We used a rural area for driving. Therefore, there was no traffic and many vehicles. 'L' board pasted in the front and back in the van. Therefore, everyone knew the status of us. Lol...

On those learning trips, always I used the horn when I had to pass pedestrians. People also go to the corner of the pavement when seeing our van. The people who were waiting to cross the road did not cross in front of our van. They let us go first and, crossed the road once we went. It made both of us laugh and, our uncle had enough things to tell. I think both parties scared of each other. 

Very recently we went to a wedding in my friend's car and she was a girl. She was a well-experienced driver and she could drive a very long distance as well without trouble. So, at that time, we were passing one town and, we moved a bit slowly because of the traffic. We saw that a boy was waiting to cross the road and, on that day he also let my friend go first. The worst thing was the smile he had on his face. He looked at my friend by keeping that smile and, it made all of us laugh. I think he never believes lady drivers.

One of my friends have such a brother. She also can drive well. But her brother did not trust her driving ever. Therefore, he never sat on the front seat with her when she was driving. He used to sit in the back seats, and she said that the worst thing was his non-stop instructions.

My father also taught us driving apart from the sessions we had in the driving school. Though that uncle did not blame us, my father's situation was totally different. He was very aggressive when teaching us. I think that was because of the risk of life. So, a small mistake was enough for him to blame us like nothing. 

However, it made us laugh. When he was scolding my sister, it made me happy and, my sister also had the same feeling when he was blaming me. However, according to his rules, nobody can laugh during his session. It breached his disciplinary rules. One day one of my cousins also joined us for a driving lesson. He chose a rural road to train us. So, as usual, he blamed three of us and, the most annoying thing with me was the 'clutch balance. He said that it was not the kind of dancing activity. 

I always hid my smile when he was saying the same thing many times. As well as he did not agree with the time, I took to make sure the back via the side mirror. He said that I took unnecessary time to look back. He said that time was enough for an accident. During his session, he suddenly asked me to stop the vehicle. In most of the cases, I could not do it properly and, the van stopped with 'Dadadas sound by highlighting red colors in the dashboard. 

Every time, he blamed me like nothing and, I was an Ass for him those times. Apart from that, he asked me to stop the vehicle by showing a particular place. But it was not easy for me to do during that learning curve. That inability made my father crazy and, he always said that the ability to stop the vehicle in the exact place at the right time was the most important thing. He worried about my skills.

So, he was fed up with three of us. We were three idiots for him. The most fun thing was, he asked my sister to stop the vehicle in front of a small shop to eat something. By looking at the outside of the shop, anyone could understand that there would not be more things to have. But, my father really wanted to go there. As he was angry with us, we did not go there. After a few minutes, we saw that he was eating a sweet thing which he did not like to eat normally. He was tired that much to eat anything irrespective of his restricted food list. It made three of us laugh.

So, when we were coming back, I took the last few minutes of the destination. Other two idiots seated in the back. When I was coming, I saw that most of the other vehicles switched on their headlights. My father asked me to drive properly without the zig-zag driving style. Because of these abnormal situations, he wanted to make sure a few things. 

Therefore, he got down from the vehicle and checked the van. At that time, he saw that our 'L' board was not available on the front side. It has fallen. So, he did not want to be a joke to others anymore and, he took the vehicle. As that 'L' board pasted by myself, again that blame rotated and came to me like a boomerang. However, it was an enjoyable journey of three of us though it increased my father's tension.

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14.0 Let's Travel By Bus And Have Fun.

As there are many stories that happened inside the buses when I was traveling, this is the second portion. As well as this is the first story of this new year and I’m drafting this on the 1st of January 2019. I think this would be a good start for the new year. Today is a company holiday for most and the 1st of January is a holiday for my former office as well. But I’m working half a day today as my career has changed a bit. So, I thought it would be better to work on the first day of the new year.

I wanted to add something from the outside of the story regarding the new year greetings we exchange with each other. Thanking the latest technology, everyone is sharing greeting messages easily. So, most of them do not call to convey the greeting message. 

Most of the time we receive this as an image, video or sticker. Here I’m writing my honest feeling. Sometimes you may agree with me. Most of the times I did not feel the greetings when sending it via the different methods I mentioned above. It’s just another message for me. I felt the greeting much when I’m conveying it via a voice call. As well as sending or posting a greeting card would make both senders and, receivers happier. I think it's more powerful than a voice call. 

However, we liked the latest technology and, we cannot use the older methods by keeping the latest methods away. As usual, the younger generation adored at the latest. So, I think it is better if we can follow these methods according to the types of different personalities. As an example, we can send the greetings to our grannies via a voice call. Then it helped them to discuss more things with us. As you know, the vast majority of the elders do not have the opportunity to share their old memories and thoughts even though they are willing to do so. In this situation, you may have to hear older stuff again. But it would give joy to your seniors in this new year's eve. If we can send a nice greetings card for our close friends by post, it would be a great idea. 

(When remembering some of them, I'm feeling somewhat angry about them. Thing is some friends could type more than a thousand letters to say their gossips and sorrows. But they are not willing to type about twenty-five letters to share a lovely greeting. If you are conscious of everything, you can identify these observations via this small stuff.)

Here, I’m wishing a blessed, peaceful and prosperous new year for you all. May all good dreams come true this year and always keep in mind that this year is yours. The next 365 days given for you to get the revenue for all the hard times you spent. 

Think about ‘Time. You think about the consumption of time while you are enjoying the new year's eve. As you know time is priceless. We cannot take back the time. Therefore, it is necessary to consider whether we have used this time in the past year correctly. Otherwise, I would like to request you to prepare a small plan for this year. I’m suggesting this as one of your best friends or loving sisters. 

As well as you try to think about the truth. It’s my next small request in this new year. The truth here is we have lesser time to live our lives than last year as one year had gone now. If you like to think in that way, it will really help to reduce our faults. Because after that we need to live the rest of our lives peacefully without making trouble for others. Or else most of the people used to think that they will live forever and they act accordingly. I think most of you may agree with my point. Please do tell me your views and, I would like to reconsider my thinking pattern accordingly. If you think as so once, you will identify your status as a human and pending responsibility you have for your society. I’m writing these additional things as I thought to share some good thoughts with you in this new year. 

So, now I'm moving back to my bus stories.

I could see different characters inside the bus. Some people used to sleep as soon as they got a seat to sit. Some of them did not behave well in front of women and tried to harass them. Some people liked to help others and, some of them were thieves. Out of all, most of them used to sleep without thinking about others and, they harassed women. Sometimes you may face or observe similar situations when you are using public transport. 

One day, I asked to move a little bit to someone who sat next to me. At that time he slept well. His seat was not enough for him to sleep well and, that’s why I had to make that request. I did not know that he was of a different nationality. So, he did not get what I said and stood suddenly by saying something. I could not understand what he said to me as well. I think there was a communication gap. Lol... After a while, he sat back. But he did not sleep till the destination. 

Some people liked to talk with us during this two-hour journey. Some people cannot be managed with a few words and had to talk a little bit. So, the headset was one good solution I had. Sometimes I lied and misled them with wrong personal information. Sometimes I acted like sleeping without listening to them. It was a good solution and the headset was not the best one as some people used to knock and talk. Sometimes I slept. As you know, you cannot do that act for a few hours if you do not want to sleep. So, in such a situation, from time to time I woke up and slept again. I did this for a few times and, the person who sat beside me said that 'You cannot sleep at a stretch right?. Even though it made me laugh, I smiled and slept again.

Sometimes we used to talk a bit rude for the people who did not behave well and troubled us. But I did as so when there were few friends with me. One day, in such a situation, I tried to vomit and, it was an act to keep that person away from by making an unpleasant feeling about me. It worked well and, he went away. 

Most of the times we did not talk with them loudly to point out their faults as others used to take us as a joke. They never consider the uncomfortable situation made by the other person. I saw this situation many times in the buses. One day, one lady blamed a person who sat beside her and, that person also said some rubbish words to her. Finally, most of the people tried to get fun out of their fight and, no one helped that woman to get rid of that problem. In the end, she was very helpless and got down from the bus. I felt sad for her and, it was the worst situation I have ever seen️. 

Some people tried to listen to us when we were talking and, it was a disturbance for us. So, we followed different methods to prevent it. One day, we looked around in the window and, discussed the beauty of a kite in the sky. We did not say it loudly as we wanted to know whether that person listens to us or not. As we thought he also searched for a kite in the sky and it made us laugh. After that, he got to know that it was a silly track and, he ashamed a lot. So, he went away.

One day, I watched my wall on Facebook and, suddenly an uncle who sat next to me asked to scroll up to the phone screen. I also could not think much with his unexpected request and, I scrolled up and viewed some posts on the Facebook wall. He wanted to see one post and, at that time I got to know that he also watched my phone screen with me. He looked at that post for a few seconds and said something about that post. 




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5.0 Wondering How To Make The School Journey Rock? Boost Your Kid's School Journey With These Tips.

As I did not go to the nursery, I arranged a great deal to go to school. Therefore, the very first day was a memorable day for me. I went to three schools because of job transfers of my father. So, I could get a different experience with various Places, Friends, and People.

These memories relate to my school journey. We did not go to the Nursery before going to School. I think that’s why my brain is a little bit more as I went straight to school. You also can understand when you are going through the blog right...? 

The Reason! So, on those days I was keeping on asking for my mother that when we will go to school. My mother said to me it’s not essential much as nursery kids are getting advance education than their age. I think today kids are getting increasingly more propelled education amid their nursery time. But nowadays mothers are not in a position to reject even though the education stream has these conditions. At the point, when a child ends up three to four years of age, he/she ought to go to a nursery. Since mothers are also going to work, I think they feel a little solace by taking a gander at the security side of children when they are in the nursery. I believe it's an opportunity for sitters too when the child isn't at home for a couple of hours at home. So, they also would like to send the Kids outside for their relief. However, babysitting is not an easy task and, I’m not saying their feeling is wrong. As well as Parents also do not want to get rid off of the way in which that society used to go because of the high challenge in the education framework. Therefore, because of numerous reasons, nursery education has turned into an absolute necessity for now.

In those days, I remember that my parents gave me a lot of Craftwork to do. My mother asked me to draw pictures in drawing books and, I decorated or filled by gluing Dhal. I used to create new designs using sliced vegetables with coloring. I made different masks. We had the opportunity to do whatever we enjoyed. But in those days, there was a small yard in the house where the father got as quarters. So, I didn’t have enough space in the yard and played Games inside the house. The house was very near the road and the yard was a prohibited area to play.

So, I liked to go to school very much because of these reasons.

So, as a result of these reasons and, since I was born in the second month of the year, I could go to school when I was five years old. Children who born in the first month of the year also can go along with one year upfront and, it’s an advantage for them as they could save one year of time. Now, all the things like bags, books and, pencils were ready for my venture. Those kept as exhibition items in the living room. Only my uniform needs to be finished by my mother and, it was also almost finished. I did not have the patience to wear it.

That Precious Moment! So, that's the moment where my uniform was ready to wear and see. So, my mother cut some extra hanging strings and asked me to wear to make sure there are no loopholes.  Then I wanted to show that now, I’m a schoolchild to my neighbors. Once I just wore the school dress, I rode the wall and jumped into the other quarters to show my story to ‘Kuruppu’ uncle who was one of our Neighbors. There were two more houses and, all those were given by the government as quarters for employees. ’Kuruppu’ uncle also one government employee who worked with my father. There was another uncle with ‘Kuruppu’ uncle in the same quarters and, I could not remember his name.  All of them were my friends. Once I went there, I showed my school dress and, began to tell about the new chapter of my school venture. 

Meanwhile, my mother was looking for me and asked me to come back home. Those two uncles also tried to send me back to the home. But I was staying there as there was a lot more to tell them. After a few minutes, ‘Kuruppu’ uncle dropped me at home as my mother kept on asking me to come back. So, you all can imagine what happened next right? Then I got Punishments for several faults I did. Escaping the house without informing, jumping from the wall, going to other houses pointlessly, were the main wrong things and, those were good enough for my mother to hit me. Finally, I had to face these incidents on the very first day when I wore my school dress.  Later on, ‘Kuruppu’ uncle told me that ‘Child, don’t come here without the permission of your mother. Alright..’ 

So, after all those work my day came and, it was the time where I had to go to school. I was very happy and my parents came to hand me over. 

There was walking distance to School and, we all three left to go to school. I saw some students on my way to school and, it made me happy. I could see that many students were going to school by wearing white school dresses. The only difference was I didn’t have a tie to wear at that time. They seemed very important to me as big ones. So, I left my parent’s hands and, took one of the elder sister’s hands. I was so happy and, I think they thought about me as a kid and, they accompanied me without any objections. Later on, my mother used to remember this incident for a few days saying that I forgot them after meeting other students.

First Day! On the first day once I went to class, what I noticed was, most of the students were knew about one another. I told this to my mother and, she said those would study in the same nursery. So, on the first day of school, I do not know anybody. But it was not a big problem for me and, thought that schoolyard and, the ground was enough for me. I was so cheerful about the space available in the school to play. 

At night, I thought about how to play in the ground and how to play together with my friends. So, in the morning, I was ready to go without a trace. As well as I wanted to show that now, I’m a Schoolchild to others and, therefore I used to wear my school dress even after school. Every day my mother tried a lot to get it off. One evening I wore my school dress till evening once I got to know that one of my close relatives was coming to visit us. 

A piece of sliced bread with strawberry jam and a bottle with a separately packed soft drink and water gave some extra inspiration to me. 

Strawberry Jam and its smell reminded my grade, class one, always. Later on, I shared foods with my friends and, then there were different types of foods in my lunch box. There were some foods like 'Coconut Sambal' and Biscuits. Even my mother asked about these foods, she did not follow up much. On those days I would love to eat bread with 'Coconut sambal' and, I used to bring it via my friend as I did not have 'Coconut Sambal' much at home. Even though others tried to frighten me telling stories about stomach-aches with Warms as a result of this food, I used to keep this habit until that friend got angry with me for some obscure reason. Sometimes we did some activities by using our food. We took the design of chocolate biscuit and, glued it on the cream on the opposite side of the biscuit.

I could keep that day as a Memorable Day, as my father took some Photos of me and my mother. That photo showed the way we were returning home from school by hanging a bag on my right-hand side. Today, I can see how my friends are sharing photos of their kid's first day at school. Once they did, they instantly published the photos on social media. 

But in our era, there should be a camera to take photos, and we need the support of a studio to clean the photos. It was not as easy as these days. So, I really appreciate that additional effort put by my father to take this photo for me.

I think my parents also happy like me and, that photo is proof. My father's effort and my mother's smile showed their Genuine Feelings.

 

That photo...

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