Life can be strange. And it can throw surprises at you specially when you least expect them. One such incident happened a couple of days back which taught me some lessons. Lessons which i'll never forget and will come handy later in life.
We were on our way to delhi. We had hired a cab and started at two in the noon. We were near pusa when the driver made a huge error in judgement and instead of going across the round about he dissected the traffic and was immediately caught by the traffic police. I and the driver went out to talk. I thought i might help him out. After arguing and pleading a lot the police man asked me my profession to which i promptly replied that i am a teacher. Then he simply asked me one thing. I should decide whether the driver should be challaned as per law or should he pay half the sum to the police man illegally and escape. I was stumped. I knew i was in a fix. I told the police to challan the driver. Afterwards, on the same day the driver ploughed his cab into a new innova car. The other car's driver, obviously angry, started abusing our driver and were having a heated argument. This time i remained silent. After ten minutes my maternal uncle, who was in our cab, stepped out and resolved the matter.
Two lessons i learnt that day. One. Never pass judgement or try to settle a score between two people if you are not directly connected to it. I made this mistake in the first case. Second. Never be a mute spectator when the problem has something to do with you. In the second instance it was my suggestion to change lanes that caused the accident. So i was directly involved and yet i remained mute.
I hope i'll be more careful later.
