A WOMAN WHO WAS MAN ENOUGH!!

There was this funny thing that happened a few months back. Mom n I were standing in a crowded market which has recently created a network of one way streets to ease the traffic congestion, not that its helped, but that's another issue.
Suddenly all eyes got riveted to this woman behind the wheel of an azure grey Honda City, honking and shouting like crazy. Coming from the opposite direction, wrongly, on the one way street, was this white esteem with the Govt Of Delhi sticker and a policeman sitting in the passenger's seat. This woman, with looks strikingly similar to that of Kiran Mazumdar Shaw, whom i had the fortune of meeting in rather strange circumstances at Mallya Hospital in Bangalore the night rahul decided to become a bike stuntman, sat behind the wheel, and did not budge an inch. The police officer from the other car came and started to explain to her the mistake but she was adamant that he move car from that street before she moves her. Continuously lambasting him for being the government and still flouting rules so blatantly, she literally shepherded him back out of that street.
It was heartening to see a common citizen force some sense and responsibility into the upholders of law and order, but this episode also brought a question to my mind. How would the situation have been different had there been a man in that Honda? Would the police officer have been so courteous with a man as he was with a woman? And more importantly, would a man have had the sheer gall to stand up in such a situation?
There're always two ways out of any road ( yes, even a one way street ) and it takes a courageous person to take the harder, but correct way out. That woman could have easily maneuovered her way around the officer's car but she chose to instill some sense into him and fight for her right.
As Robert Frost has famously said -- " two roads diverged in a wood, and I --
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference."

Sometimes I wonder what I would've done in her place. I wonder and wonder, and still dont know.. Ignorance is bliss, i guess...