I’ve been in lots of road accidents in my life, from the funniest to the most horrible ones and somehow I always survived without serious injuries. Some of them left some funny memories which popped into my head from time to time and I think to myself only I can get myself into these silly accidents like falling from the rickshaw several times.
Yeah! I’m the clumsy type of person when it comes to maintaining my physical balance while riding a rickshaw. I’ve always been told to sit tight while riding a bumpy road, but I did the opposite.
As I sat on the rickshaw seat and it started moving across the light breeze, I feel like I’m leaving everything behind and moving forward with the speed of the wind and that’s how I let my guard down and sometimes ended up falling from the rickshaw while my knees, elbow or the palm of my hand kiss the hard concrete road real hard.
There is this one time on a rainy day, I and a friend of mine was returning home from school and both of us were admiring the rain, and then BAM. You know the rickshaw drivers in Dhaka, I don’t know what type of satisfaction they have when they hit the back side of the other rickshaw.
I fell and landed on the ground while maintaining the Mardala style from Dev Das and my friend broke her jaw in the process of kissing the road. It was a super hilarious and embarrassing situation, though the road wasn’t that busy at that time, still, a few people were doing their business and some of them came running to help us.
I still sometimes broke into laughter remembering that day.
But thankfully I fixed that dangerous habit in real time or I’ll be cursing at myself now in my grave for not seat properly on the rickshaw.
Also, when I was 7, I and my elder brother landed on a garbage dump along with his stupid bicycle.
I have always hated that stupid bicycle, probably because of its colour, I mean who in the world would put so many colours on a single bicycle like red, yellow, magenta, and baby pink, and who will be in their right mind to buy this ugly-looking bicycle?
Ah! Yeah, it was my brother.
I’ve never been that much happy when his bicycle got stolen. Then again some people have some weird taste.
My brother was learning to ride a bicycle, and he wanted to know if he can drive the bicycle accurately along with someone in the back seat. So what is the sweetest option?
Go grab your little sister and if she refused to go just blackmail her by saying that you will pull every baby tooth at once, ignoring the fact that she was already traumatized from two teeth that came out one at a day.
Eventually, I agreed thinking about what can be worse than pulling my every tooth at once.
And instantly I regretted my decision, I should have made complained about that blackmail to my grandpa when I have the chance.
I took a 1-hour bath after coming home and that evening I took my anger on one of my neighbour's kids who were younger than me. Don’t ask what I did, it’s still embarrassing to remember.
I had no idea that riding in a rickshaw could be that harrowing. I've only seen them on the TV show The Amazing Race, and they always seemed to be going at a rather steady speed. I'm glad you and your friend came through that, although the broken jaw must have been painful.
Yeah, sometimes rickshaw drivers got wild or the other vehicle like cars or motorcycles or the bus drivers go wild and do some wild stuff on roads. This is very often on the road of Dhaka city. There is a saying that if you know how to drive on the road in Bangladesh then you can drive even in hell without facing any trouble.
Rickshaw wala mamas are abosulte chads haha. They pull off the most random stunts with their 3 wheelers, bumping into one another, trash talking, as if they're in some kind of a movie or something. And we, the passengers pay for their experiments.
I remember back in 2005 while coming back from art school, the guy was pulling so fast that he just forgot that brakes even existed. So, while taking an aggressive left turn, we ended up in a short drift, Tokyo Drift style, but the funny thing is, Tokyo Drift wasn't even released yet lol. The rickshaw then went flying for a second, we then landed on our buttocks, right at the middle of the road haha.
I'm imagining the situation, with Fast and Furious playing on the side :3
Such drift scenes and the main song, a classic combo.
Stop fantasizing when you are on our local aeroplanes. 😂
Fortunately, I haven't met with any accidents so far. May Allah keep protecting me like this. 😇
Maybe it's their way of exchanging love with one another.
Okay, draft it for the next time.
I didn't particularly stop and don't think I can ever stop fantasizing, but I learned how to control it.
And yeah maybe that's how they show love to each other the toxic kind of love I guess -_
Though it was a accident, but still I can't stop laughing just imagining the scenario :v
But thank God nothing serious happened to you two!
Fortunatly, I only had rickshaw accident once, but that was a serious case! Our rickshaw got totally smashed out but I somehow managed to jump before the clash. Sometimes I still got goosebumps just remembering them!
Suddenly I can see mothers with their hands across the chest of their children and holding the hood tightly on their way to school in the rickshaw. 🤔😜
Yeah! And I got jealous every time I see this scenario. My mother never did this to me not even once, she always hold the hood from behind my back. --_--
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