Excitement is inevitable once you start traveling and after I got into my first autorikshaw, I knew I was in the right place. All vehicles are not alike. I saw auto rickshaws, Brahma bulls (bullocks) pulling carts, full and empty. There were big green buses and smaller yellow, blue and red buses and trucks carrying water or rocks or bags of rice with people riding on top. The motor scooters are most common and can carry five people, young, old, big and little. Entire families take a ride together. Traffic is to the left, the British way and one traffic rule is that size matters. The bigger the vehicle, the more rights it has. Thus, the auto rickshaw will force a bicycle to the left, a truck will edge out the car and the bus rules the road. No one argues with a 38 ton bus. The other rule is no passing on the left, otherwise drivers watch out for each other in a kind of defensive driving scheme. Long ago I stopped worrying about accidents because each car represents the livelihood of the driver.
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