…But I had to do it.
I HAD to drive a motorcycle.
Purely for research purposes, of course.
You know, to get the full cultural immersion experience and what not…
See, motorcycles might be one of the only things you see more than cows around here. Everyone drives them, from middle school boys to moms with babies on their laps to entire families. Seriously – I’ve seen 5 people fit on one bike on more than one occasion.
Ok well if I’m being honest, I didn’t technically drive one…yet. I started bugging Nanda about it almost the instant we arrived in India, until he got so sick of me that partway through our trip he finally called his brother who works at a dealership (strategy = success). Apparently we had some kind of miscommunication though, because somehow they were under the impression that I already knew how to drive one of those things. I don’t know what could have given them that idea? But after almost running over his coworker and crashing through a glass wall within five seconds of being on the bike, it became pretty clear that I had no idea what I was doing and I got stuck in the back seat…oh well, next time.
I HAD to drive a motorcycle.
Purely for research purposes, of course.
You know, to get the full cultural immersion experience and what not…
See, motorcycles might be one of the only things you see more than cows around here. Everyone drives them, from middle school boys to moms with babies on their laps to entire families. Seriously – I’ve seen 5 people fit on one bike on more than one occasion.
Ok well if I’m being honest, I didn’t technically drive one…yet. I started bugging Nanda about it almost the instant we arrived in India, until he got so sick of me that partway through our trip he finally called his brother who works at a dealership (strategy = success). Apparently we had some kind of miscommunication though, because somehow they were under the impression that I already knew how to drive one of those things. I don’t know what could have given them that idea? But after almost running over his coworker and crashing through a glass wall within five seconds of being on the bike, it became pretty clear that I had no idea what I was doing and I got stuck in the back seat…oh well, next time.