Ten unsusual sights on a Chennai road

It might be easy to get a driving licence in India. But the real test is facing the traffic and obeying the flexible rules as you face the traffic everyday.

Here are ten unusual sights that you can face on any road in Chennai. You may even get lucky to see them all on one single day.

1. A procession carrying a dead body, along with music, dance and fireworks with the right to stop and redirect traffic.
2. A bullock cart carrying wooden planks or PVC tubes or furniture.
3. People ignoring the one way and driving on the wrong side of the road, regularly.
4. People moving the temporary barriers or dividers put in place by the traffic police, in order to cross or drive around the barrier.
5. State corporation buses ignoring the traffic lights.
6. Manholes suddenly left gapingly open in the middle of the road, with just a red cloth put there to warn motorists and pedestrians to avoid it if possible.
7. Unusually high speed breakers put up by all and sundry, with no warning signs, to supposedly slow down the traffic but only resulting in breaking our backs
8. Traffic being stopped abruptly because of some political party's unannounced rally or procession or the CM's sudden drive through the road.
9. Traffic signals on important junctions found not working and left without a traffic constable, so basically you are expected to be a law abiding citizen.
10.  Sudden changes made to roads like  'no free left' just to catch otherwise law abiding citizens unawares.