The vails of a confused DESI driver..

For past 1 month, i was sitting at my desk in MARCONI- G8(ok,now thats the way here all cabins are named, after all those telecom guys!!!), swatting flies (or you can say counting minutes, as flies are rare in ireland). And suddenly the work load dropped into my head yesterday like a bolt (a very heavy one) from the blue.Now all my team mates are also gropping in the dark, which doesnt make me and them any different (lol, and i have been thinking that i am the only dumb one, here!). Isnt it a good feeling that u have company, who are as ignorant as u r or may be more than u..

I was debugging and chatting (as part of multitasking) when i suddenly bumped into one fix which we were chasing for a while (to be precise which was chasing us ), and imagine what!!! i was stuck till 9 pm here.. Yeeeekkk.... Is this the reward for "working"???? if i had sat idle and just ignored the fix pass in front of my eyes...(he he he.. Sometimes i do that....) i would have been in better situation... I reached home at 9:30 pm and my dear hubby was waiting for me (he is on leave this whole week... So its complete role reveral for us... I come late and he is there waiting for me.. Wow.. What a pleasure!!! and yesterday he cooked too...). I must call my mom and tell her this... I wonder if she ask my dad to do this for her...

This is the advantage of being in a foreign place, alone. Hubbies have less ego and seem more co-operative than they are in homeland.

Tomorrow i have my driving test for provisional license. I dont know anything about all those different road signs that we see here in ireland. Especially the one seen in motorways... There are lots of ways here like freeway, motorway and i dont know what all ways...... India never had these 'n' ways...There everything was "free"-way i suppose.

And another thing is seatbelt... The fine here for not wearing seatbelt is 100€... And in india its like "helloo... Anybody knows what a seatbelt is????". I must erase every rule i had in my mind while i drove in india nd claer my mind... Hmmm... Still i cant..

Here vehicles always stop for the pedestrians to cross... And they inturn say "thankyou!!"-- which is soooooooooo strange to me. First of all

1) why do the vehicles stop for pedestrians to cross?? (typical indian driver thot!!!!)

2) why do the pedestrians say "thankyou" for that???(typical indian pedestrian thot!!!)

I am just a confused indian driver trying to sort out irish driving from indian driving:

1)why DONT these ppl blow horn at all even in traffic blocks????

2)why DONT they push smaller vehicles into the kurb??

3)why DO they insert parking fees into the machine slot, even if they park for 5 mts?

4) why DONT they curse at each other when someone overtakes?

5)above all from where do this towing machine comes up?

...Oh...Oh..I am so confused..Tomorrow will tell u whether i passed or failed the exam.. I feel its 10:90 for pass:fail...I am so much used to indian driving... cant blame me...

the pass mark is 35/40 ..ISNT IT SO UNFAIR???