Gimme Red!!

For someone who's pretty obsessive about her new (not brand new any more, Red celebrated his first month on October 21) Zen Estilo, better known as Red ("Guru Prasad, please change gears gently"... "Daddy, please don't bang the door too hard"... "Guru Prasad, that's not how you switch off the stereo"... and to the Wilson Garden servicing place, "You call this a touch-up job????? What kind of a service centre are you???"), i have hardly written after that first post, with a picture showing off his sleek (and now, touched-up in places) bod.

Yeah, well, injustice. But i've been so stressed concentrating on how my driver drives and changes gears and how my dad behaves with him, and my trying to not be irritated with everything my dad does when he's in the car, that i've hardly run my hand lovingly over Red in the last month. Let alone run a post on him.

Yesterday, though, after a really long time - two weeks, i think - i took Red for a spin. Not a quick one, either. I reversed Red in the narrow space that my lane provides, and ventured on to the main road for the first time! Can you imagine, the R.T.Nagar main road, with crossroads hurling traffic onto suckers like me! So anyway, i managed to move Red along unscathed.

The 'L' on his tinted front and back windshields had come off, so our first stop was a shop to pick up red insulation tape (pun unintended) and stick it on. Just in case.

From there, i went to Dinnur Main Road, turned right before Munireddy Palya, hit the Radhakrishna theatre road, turned left on the road to Mekhri Circle, took him on to Mekhri Circle (!), turned towards TV Tower, went to Anand Nagar, dropped in at P's mom's place to say hello, met Ananya, and drove back home. Without getting a single scratch on Red! (Well, there was this instance when i took him through a just-about-fits-a-car road, and thinking i was being very experienced, drove Red on without realising there was a mother-of-a stone on the left side. Nothing, thankfully, came of it but a loud CRRRRRUNCH.)

Red was positively purring by the time we got back home. It was such a pleasure to drive him. And my clutch-accelerator co-ordination was gooooooood, Red hardly stopped. I didn't get nervous when he did, either. Besides, i was much, much, much more confident taking him on the main roads this time round.

I think i can handle driving him around the city now. All i need is my goddarn license to become a reality.