It’s amazing how men tend to fall in love with cars. They treat them as an extended part of themselves, cleaning, tweaking all the time ensuring the car is in its most graceful state.
Women on the other hand tend to feel such passion for shoes, clothes and bags. Small wonder men tend to start driving at a much earlier age than women and as such become better drivers. Sharp contrasts when you consider women attain puberty earlier than men.
Personally I believe that there are a lot of bad drivers in Nigeria. The reasons are numerous and diverse. One being that many people aren’t taught properly at the start. Another being the nasty habit of many drivers not reading the Highway Code; you also have fear (of what I can’t really tell). Don’t also forget bad eye sight; hearing etc. the list is endless.
By default, men are better drivers but occasionally you find a few exceptional women that can take it to the men, anytime, anyplace. An awesome example is Dana Patrick who became the 1st woman to win the Indy 500. As my Dad once told me in Primary school, there are two categories of women drivers. 1st the ones you never, ever want to be behind (either in traffic or on the free way) and the “killer kind” whom you never see coming and will embarrass you as you try to show off your driving skills to your buddies. (My brother has fallen victim to such an unsuspecting woman).
I clearly recollect following a colleague home one evening from work. We were leaving the car park, her car was deep behind several cars, and so being a gentleman I offered to drive all 6 cars and hers out. On getting her car out, I handed the keys back to her. We left the Marina and we headed towards Lekki. On getting to VI, we got off Ozumba (I figured we were avoiding traffic) when we got to Oniru, I was a bit confused when we didn’t get back on the expressway. At that point, I asked why we were not joining the highway. She then told me we were taking the “Jeep Route”( the shoreline from VI to Epe). She drives a Jeep Liberty. On the Jeep Route, she brought that “killer side” I mentioned earlier. Her driving was simply flawless. The Liberty ate everything that was thrown at it. There were SUV’s falling by the way side, ohhh nooo not us. Ada would not permit that. She conquered the tracks and dropped me off at Alpha Beach, yes on the shore line. It was simply the most brilliant piece of driving I had seen. I was more than impressed at her driving and I must say she had done excellently to curb my bias for women drivers.