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Armed with an 'L' board, a grossly underdeveloped road sense and a misplaced sense of confidence, he is perhaps the easiest to spot.

This idiot is a grown-up, slamming his brakes in the middle of the road, forcing you to stop dead in your tracks, usually a second too late, only to admire what vaguely resembles a member of the opposite sex. Looks like he is out to make your life on the road as frustrating as his teens.

An idiot, who's constantly sniggering, easily distracted and amused by just about anything. He has to go in for a closer look of everything on the road that catches his fancy, even if that means cutting across eight lanes of traffic and back again.

He appears out of nowhere, right in your path, give or take a few millimetres. So, as you slam your brakes and squeal to a stop he’d have disappeared, as mysteriously as he'd appeared. Known for his perfect sense of (bad) timing, this is the one idiot you'll really need to look out for.

This one strolls along, lost in his personal cloud of thought only to find himself crossing the road during peak-hour traffic. Sadly, all you can do is hope and pray that you don't break anything more than his train of thought.

He's the one who confidently strides onto the middle of the road, head held high. Just when you think he's going to pass comfortably, he freezes. He can't seem to resolve his Shakespearean dilemma - to cross or not to cross and you'll be convinced that an idiot by any other name would harm just as much.

Women, research proves, are better at multitasking - daughter, sister, wife, mother, curious neighbour, an idiot on the road, the list goes on. And there you are, hitting the brakes, frantically shifting gears, checking the rear-view mirror for a vehicle, looking out for fellow bikers - all at the same time.

You’ll find this guy swing open the driver-side door while trying to break the land speed record for the simple pleasure of spraying the road with a litre of paan-stained spit. As Indian as khadi and yoga, this son of the soil is a truly unique specimen.