I rented a scooter last week. I haven’t ridden it much though on account of: 1. I didn’t have a helmet and 2. I didn’t want to crack my melon on the streets of Bangalore.

A catalog of things I’ve almost run into with my scooter:

A car
A motorcycle
A motorcycle with a man on it
A bicycle with a man on it
A bus
A cow
A temple
An open sewage ditch
A gate
Two teenagers

I now have a helmet- I will avoid cracking my melon.