Five things you didn't know about me

As I was writing the zma blog, my mind re-winded back to when I was 2-3 years old and how the whole motorcycle and auto love started. Well, I actually don't know how it began per se, but I can just list few things that show it all started pretty early. And the five things I am listing here aren't only about motorcycles or cars.

• When I was 2-3 years old, I would stand at the front door of the house and listen to the exhaust notes of the bikes passing in front of the house. Obviously I was too short to look over the compound wall and also back in those days the exhaust notes could be heard from quite some distance away, thanks to fewer vehicles and lesser sound pollution. So, I used to play this game with myself, I had designated different spots in the garden to go and stand in depending on the sounds I heard. The rules were simple I have to stand in the right spot before the bike reaches the main gate, and once the bike reaches the main gate I could see and validate if I was right or wrong. I would always get things 100% right. KB100, RX100, AX100, CD100, Bullet, Yezdi etc etc. And just for the record, my favorite bike back then was KB100 followed by the RX100.
• Until I was 5-6 years old, my dad had to write a new car/bike/vehicle diagram on the wall in front of my bed. I would then think about it and fall asleep. It had to be a new diagram every day (obviously the diagrams would repeat after some days) and they had to (at least) look like the actual model. Maruti 800s, Contessas, Ambassadors, Fiat 1100Ds, Omnis were written a countless times.
• On the first day of my school I got a chocolate for correcting the teacher that a Bus has 6 tyres and not 4.
• On the same day, I was dropped off at a different place (pretty far away from my stop) by the school bus in the evening. I tracked my way back home with the help of some vague recollections of store names and landmarks. The sense of direction is still evident :D
• I don't like volume control or any measurement readout set to an odd value, I always end up changing it to even numbers.