DWI (Dee Doublew Eye)

In US the most feared of traffic charges is DUI - Driving Under Influence. Which is the act of operating a motor vehicle after having consumed alcohol, to the degree that mental and motor skills are impaired.

Now one would say what is this bloody new charge DWI , never heard of it...
Is it
Driving While Intoxicated (many would guess that)
Driving Without Infuence (lol :P)
Driving While Impaired
Driving Without ID
or does it have anything to do with Driving at all???

Nope...none of the above...
Let me expand your vocabulary !

I have no intention to hurt anybodies sentiments per say, but its true... this is one of the charges quite commonly termed in a lot of US states with a lot of Indian population, specially in Seattle/Redmond in Washington state, (my current abode) or to be more specific Microsoft area, you see there are a lot of Indians working in Microsoft and most of them have a car or maybe two for themselves and/or their wives/husbands (Haha, one has to be careful, u c I'm quite careful of not being called an MC ;p)

So now what happens when so many Indians who've moved from our beloved motherland, used to driving not just on the left side of the road but on whatever is left of the road are put into a country with relatively long cars, with automatic controls, and being asked to drive on the right (wrong according to them) side of the road with no real sense of signals and directions. More often than not if you see a car moving left then right then left and then right direction while driving the car on the dividing line you can be sure that its an Indian in the driving seat with on next seat his/her counterpart giving directions or on the phone with directions being read out from a website.
So here is a confused person, who doesn't quite understand where is North or where is South and Goddammit where is East or where is West. You see we Indians have been taught only 2 signals LEFT and RIGHT and we are no children of Columbus or Vasco Da Gama to read compasses to decipher the North/South or whatever other 20 directions there are applying in the world n neither we are Magnets, do you get it! Some weird way of giving directions this country has!
Now if it was not sufficient you would be asked to stop your car by a cop who for I donot know what reason is so so very different than our Indian cops, these guys stop drivers not for taking bribes but to actually regulate traffic...come on! What do they think of themselves...
So here you are, asked to show your ID and drivers licence and asked weird questions like where are you from? Hey coppy(mamu) "I am from India the land of spices ;)" He asks again Where are you coming from?...making a face as if the spices reminded him of the burnt toilet paper that he used to wipe his A** after last night's Indian food ;). The answer to that is "home" and next comes, Where are you going? I said "home". "What!", says he. Is it really so hard to believe that I just came out to enjoy a short drive on my newly bought 2nd hand (okay baba 10th hand) ToYoTa. But well not everyone can understand the joy...
I was asked to get out of the car and walk in a straight line, what does he think I am a trapeze artist or he a geometry teacher X-( but I do what I am told, now as if disappointed with my passing the test with a CGPA of 6/6, I am charged with DWI (D doublew I). And poor soul that I am, hears it as DUI (or was it DUUI - D double U I, not sure what that means but extra U would only mean more stronger percentage of alcohol!)... I swear upon God, and my mother, and my father, and my wife (even if I don't have one), and my children (if I have any chances of having one without a wife) I have never ever taken a sip of the savored drink...
I am as a brahmin, it is a taboo in our culture and family to even taste this demonic drink. I was miserably pleading my case and what do I see. The inspector, scoundrel of a man, was laughing like that Sirdie Siddhu on the sets of Laughter Challenge! He's laughing like crazy with tears coming from his eyes, and then on catching his breath he asked me to go home and that all charges are dropped and just for correction it was not DUI but DWI. I thanked him and blessed his wretched soul and ran away from that place.
I searched the internet (on my Godly webpage - my homepage, my Jinn from Aladdin's chirag) Google baba! what is DWI (search results match : Results 1 - 10 of about 18,000,000 - I was so sure I would find the answer) , but I could not find anything but Driving While Intoxicated but its the same as DUI which I was not! So I searched and searched and must have read almost all the 18,000,000 pages having the term DWI. After the first 20 pages none were even related to driving but with Dancing, Dating, Dusting, Digging, Dumping and so on and so forth!
I asked many people, but no one had any different answer, and then finally I was given the gyan by a colleague (ofcourse not an Indian). He told me that in Seattle there is an unwritten traffic charge called DWI - "Driving While still being an Indian"