Friday, 7 December 2007

Protective Ok, but at what cost

Yesterday on my usual evening walk, I saw a young girl of about 8 years riding her bicycle, a little ahead of me. I could make out that she is a novice and so did others and moved away from her path.

Then I saw a red Honda city car being driven by a lady and was extremely slow. We thought, probably the lady was also honing her driving skills.

Finally when both the bicycle and the car came to a halt near a house, I realised to my horror that the lady in the car was the girl's mother and she was ensuring that her daughter was riding safely.

I have nothing against the mother being over protective towards her child. I was annoyed that that she was wasting scarce fuel and polluting the environment. She could have very well followed by walk or by another bicycle

If the educated and the elite people are so socially irresponsible, can we expect anything better from the illiterate and the lower level of people? They wont have cars so wont be doing a similar act. That probably is the only solace.

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