Every middle class family dreams of getting a car, and my father was crazy about it since my childhood, he tried to buy couple of times but neither did he have enough money nor the real usage of it and my mother me and bro were not for it as it’s a hole in your pocket, all this was when we are studying. Now this time around about 2 years of work and as I see my Dad still talking about buying a second hand car, I felt I should buy one for him and Chandu was also for it, I prepared the chart of all the cars between 3 – 6 Lakhs, every day Rajesh and me used to have discussions on it after our supper, and that day July 31st it was when my Dad was here in Hyderabad, to see the seconds sales of Maruthi, I felt that it is not the place that we should be looking for as we can afford a new one now, I took my Dad straight away to the Hyundai Show room which was just in front of the St.Mary’s College, it was spontaneous, but by this time I had did my homework and know that i10 is the choice, I was nt sure if everyone will like it in the family, the executive took us for a test drive and my Dad liked it, I called my Bro and told him that we are going for i10 and my Dad said the same to my mother, done in 15 minutes we paid 10 K as advance , I told him that we need the car before August 15th as it was my fathers dream to go in Car for Independence day celebrations. I finished the rest in no big time, and we had our car by August 13th mind you that I don’t know to drive the car at that time, I joined the driving school a week back where I was also researching on the cars. Neither my father knows better, so we had a driver who came all the way from Vikarabad. August 15th - Chandu was here , he is the only one in family who knows Car better, tough he is young he learnt driving of both Scooter and Car earlier than me, Dad and Chandu were all set in a blushing Red i10 to Tandur, the day has come and I was more than happy to have seen him go that way, and buying a car at appropriate time , I consider is one of the best decisions that I have made, as I see today we have been couple of trips to Srisailam, Home towns, Vijayawada and we really enjoyed all that, as all three of us love to drive it as long as we can. I have been on several trips to Vijayawada with Amma and Nanna, this was on Dussera and we did Ayudha puja on the day for our car, been to Warangal with friends for Jack’s Marriage, it was a good drive and on our way we saw an accident helped out the person by calling 108, on our way back we went to NagarjunSagar and it was great to have the other 2 idiots around ( Raghu and Rajesh ), been to Miryalaguda for a friends marriage again, I have been to Vikarabad many a times, went to Srisailam with family and it was awesome experience to be there like that and it was testing time for our driving skills on the ghat, we thoroughly enjoyed it.
Some of the glitches, I was taking the car out from gate, gate is relatively small and I was not an expert in reverse gear at the time so when getting that out it got a scratch in front as the car brushed the wall, the bigger ones are made by my Dad , a lorry hit the back part of the car as when signal was given and my dad was slow to start, a bus also brushed through the cars side, Chandu put the car in the canal when it was raining and he could not see the road, we had to get the jockey and employee 5 people with 1k given to them to get that out, initially I thought the damage was more but it was less than what my Dad did for the car…. I ran though a small street dog … but this was really unfortunate incident as I write , it was raining heavily we were on our way to Tandur to pick up my Dad from where we are going to Srisailam, the vision was limited to 10 mts at max, a small street dog suddenly jumped on to the road from nowhere and was about 5 mts from the car, I pulled in all that I can do, changed gears in lightening speed to 2, brought down the car speed, gave as many horn as I can but I ran over the little one … I am so sorry for that but I can do nothing about it..than to confess my mistake this way, and had a learning that not to drive fast when you don’t have the visibility… I apologize to have ended this in a sad note but I would have not been able to write so much if I have started with this one ..
