Helmet wearing must be optional. - Page 2

VEry good points, if there are rules for our long term safety, why do we create so much of fuss? we too have a duty to abide by the rules.

Helmets should be made compulsary for everyone, driver, pillion-rider, male, female, child...everyone. I don't know why women are exempted from wearing it.

I agree it is a must however I also agree with the statement that the present design tends to impair hearing , restrics view thereby affecting your judgement. I have been in an accident , which I think could have been avoided had I not been wearing a helmet. Someone shot out of a sidelane and landed right in front of me and because of the helmet I could not see this till it was too late.

i do have something light hearted to share with you. please dont think i underestimate the seriousness of this discussion, still....

someone in delhi told me why they wear helmets in that city... it is to prevent the spit of the people from falling on their heads!! 😆

it is a very common sight in delhi to see the drivers and sometimes passengers spit paan or rinse their mouths at traffic signals sitting inside the bus...

Originally posted by: jasunap

someone in delhi told me why they wear helmets in that city... it is to prevent the spit of the people from falling on their heads!! 😆
It is a very common sight in delhi to see the drivers and sometimes passengers spit paan or rinse their mouths at traffic signals sitting inside the bus...

One day (between 1989-1992) I was walking near the Kalasipalyam or the Bangalore City Market Rural Bus Stand.

[Then a part of the Bus Stand was very near to the Krishnaraja or K.R. Market (very close to the Jama Masjid, which is the city's biggest Mosque).

Now it's become a no parking area/zone after a flyover was constructed a couple of years ago.]

A paan chewing village woman was seated near the window of a parked bus.

As I was moving very close to the bus she unknowingly spitted/emptied at least half a tumbler full of chewed paan over the left half of my head/scalp (Mastakaabhishek).

Paan Paraag Paan/Laal Masaala Paan Paraag.

Most of it went below my left ear and fell on my shoulder. It was so embarrassing.

Unfortunately, on that particular day I didn't even have a kerchief to wipe it. I couldn't even rebuke her, as she was uneducated. I just kept quiet.

From that day onwards I stopped moving very close to any parked bus. I'm following that self-imposed rule (not to walk very close to a parked six wheeler) since then even to this day.