How ABS taught me that there is a higher power called God...

Not having a dad around sometimes means that my source of technical information is now scattered. Sometimes, it's my friends and other times, its a client who likes automobiles of all kinds and we have a lot of time to chat on the way to site. 

On one such site visit, my client said something about the Anti-lock breaking system in his SUV. I was curious. I didn't know what it meant so I asked him. Very patiently, he told me exactly what it was all about and promised to email an image which was meant to explain to any lady what this term meant exactly. 

The next few days, I couldn't get it out of my head. Especially when I would drive my new car- the Honda Brio which, incidentally had ABS. One particular day when I was thinking about it, an idiot on the bike decided to cut across the road to the other side on an illegal crossing with absolutely no regard to who/what was coming towards him and at what speed. Unfortunately that who/what was me and I was quite fast considering it was a straight road without any turns and thoroughfare. I had to break quite hard and BAM!

Though any kind of collusion/incident had been avoided, ABS had been demonstrated to me. And I looked up to the heavens and said "Thank you god, for demonstrating to me this magical phenomenon in my car called ABS."

Sometimes, I wonder if it's not my dad up there giving me life and technical lessons while sipping from a tall cool glass of heavenly Beer or whiskey :P