| I got hooked to it for its sheer fun | | | | and drive home the idea that is sane. |
| I used to go to college by my bike. I was very happy | | | | As my wish grew stronger when I gathered up my |
| when my father got me that on my 18th birthday. But | | | | courage and requested my father to spare his car for |
| in college most students particularly the seniors used | | | | me atleast once a week. I knew it would not appeal |
| cars instead! Initially this did not bother me. But when | | | | him if I put an argument of enjoying the company of |
| 5-6 of my fellow friends started sharing their cars in | | | | fellow students when traveling to and fro my college. |
| rotation, I got left alone. | | | | So I needed a better and rational or so-called mature |
| They were having a fun sharing rides to school and | | | | reason to convince him. |
| back home every day. I always thought if I could hop | | | | I reasoned, "Dad!, you see you'll need to spare the car |
| into the group and be part of car share. They lived | | | | only once a week and my total expense on fuel over |
| close to my place, and I could very well be part of the | | | | a week will come down drastically as I don't need to |
| car pool only if I had owned a car to share with them, I | | | | go to my college on my bike." |
| would sulk. I was missing out on the fun to my utter | | | | I could see my logic having made the desired effect. |
| frustration. | | | | My father was quietly thinking and did not brush aside |
| In another situation perhaps car pool would have been | | | | my request. Then he nodded his head and while I |
| an exigency, something desperately needed to tide | | | | waited for his expressed consent, he picked up the |
| over the driving crises and I guess carpool India should | | | | telephone and called up someone. |
| be the national slogan and carpool in India a policy | | | | I was surprised because my request was still |
| rather than a choice. Carpool culture in India has | | | | unanswered. And I didn't know if my wish was |
| sometime to evolve and the best way to go about it | | | | granted. In the midst of this dilemma I heard my father |
| to share carpool information with friends and relations | | | | ask someone, "Can us car-share to office? |