Drive me crazy!
Drive me craaaazy baybeee ...... drive me craaaaaazy!
The radio is blaring loudly and as if to take a hint from the radio, a couple on a two wheeler with his entire family and perhaps his entire home decides to veer to the left for no apparant reason!!! Voila... screeching brakes, missed crashes and couple of verbal spats including some choiciest of verbal knives, blades and some dynamites thrown in for measure..... we are on our way!!!
Doesn't that sound soooo much like a page out of your morning diary?????
Welcome to Bangalore... banged out of proption!! Cultural melting pot, so they say! I would rather say its a khichdi (broth) boiling away to glory where some one forgot to put out the flame.... its creating a rather amusing mess all around.... but the broth is still boiling! Don't worry, the case is pretty much similar in your city too. Any city which has been blessed with good economic growth and people moving in from pretty much every where else, taxing the city's bursting seams!
The best part is.... people made their way in! Great. No, I am not being crazy and suggest that we tell them all to go away!! Then the economy will collapse! What I am aiming at is that people made their way in..... people made all that money... now they want to spend it. What do they do? Go buy that vehicle that they have been so wanting! Bingo, add a new, slick automobile on road statistics.... hey hey hey, I said add to the road statistics and you are zipping away already!!! Thats exactly what happens.... no road etiquette, no license and if the cop catches you, the hari pan ka patta is ready in the pocket! Moolah! Thats what speaks and thats what you got!
U are driving your brand new car with the mirrors open to see the traffic..... zoom.... click....thwack.... that was your rear view mirror on one of the sides, now on the road... why? Its that squeezing two wheeler! Damn.. just when you thought that there is no more space on the side for any one to overtake you and you were accomplishing some really good driving skills.... you are taught some new tricks..... why do all expensive cars drive with their rear view mirrors closed!!!
Parking? Where ever you find a free space wide enough to fit your vehicle!!
Here is some quiz for you... what is the most coveted parking space in your city??
Give up???? Right under the "NO PARKING" board.... especially if you are driving a police or govt vehicle!
Any place is safe as long as there is a kid collecting fare for the parking and issues you a ticket.... else you come back and make a mandatory trip to the local traffic police station, hassle with the cops and cough up cold hard cash for your hot sleek auto!
OK, so paid parking is good, safe and you get your auto back from the same parking space where you paid for and left it!! I just said you are bound to get your auto back in the same parking space.... I never said it would be in the same shape??? Road romeos standing against your auto pretending it was a wall... Damn, there goes the paint job!!!! Your neighbour at the parking lot happened to be in a hurry! Daam, there goes the paint job again!!!! Ever wonder why you did not save up and buy the tank from the army surplus store? Sideswiping other autos would have been such a painless activity! Sounds like fun... I am saving up to buy the neat two seater tank with a uzi perched on top. Does about 60 KMPH and gives about 5 KMs per Litre of petrol! It even has desert camaflouge painted! NEAT
Some say its safer to car pool. What about the poor guy who is the designated driver for the day/week? Hehehehehe. Let him suffer. When its my chance, wife took the car!!
Nuts around see a lady driving a car and they say "L" board! Whats that? "Lady board". What did you think? That she was a learner? Hell no, ladies drive much safer than guys. There are enough guys around who believe that if a lady is commanding a vehicle, its safer to keep away from that vehicle! Isn't that an amazing solution to keep your vehicle in sparkling condition? Engine? I never said your engine is going to remain under the hood! It fell off at the 10th mile marker!!
Autorikshaws!!! Enough has been said and they have been written down, commented to dust! But I hail them. Why? They are one unique breed who will take you from point A to point B within the least amount of time and fleece you before you can figure what happened!! They can squeeze into that tight spot where you lost your rear view mirror and manage to give you a neat little scratch for a reminder....Damn there goes the paint job some more! I am sanding the car tomorrow and driving it around with out any paint job on it. Got one up on you now! Now I drive YOU crazy!
The radio is blaring loudly and as if to take a hint from the radio, a couple on a two wheeler with his entire family and perhaps his entire home decides to veer to the left for no apparant reason!!! Voila... screeching brakes, missed crashes and couple of verbal spats including some choiciest of verbal knives, blades and some dynamites thrown in for measure..... we are on our way!!!
Doesn't that sound soooo much like a page out of your morning diary?????
Welcome to Bangalore... banged out of proption!! Cultural melting pot, so they say! I would rather say its a khichdi (broth) boiling away to glory where some one forgot to put out the flame.... its creating a rather amusing mess all around.... but the broth is still boiling! Don't worry, the case is pretty much similar in your city too. Any city which has been blessed with good economic growth and people moving in from pretty much every where else, taxing the city's bursting seams!
The best part is.... people made their way in! Great. No, I am not being crazy and suggest that we tell them all to go away!! Then the economy will collapse! What I am aiming at is that people made their way in..... people made all that money... now they want to spend it. What do they do? Go buy that vehicle that they have been so wanting! Bingo, add a new, slick automobile on road statistics.... hey hey hey, I said add to the road statistics and you are zipping away already!!! Thats exactly what happens.... no road etiquette, no license and if the cop catches you, the hari pan ka patta is ready in the pocket! Moolah! Thats what speaks and thats what you got!
U are driving your brand new car with the mirrors open to see the traffic..... zoom.... click....thwack.... that was your rear view mirror on one of the sides, now on the road... why? Its that squeezing two wheeler! Damn.. just when you thought that there is no more space on the side for any one to overtake you and you were accomplishing some really good driving skills.... you are taught some new tricks..... why do all expensive cars drive with their rear view mirrors closed!!!
Parking? Where ever you find a free space wide enough to fit your vehicle!!
Here is some quiz for you... what is the most coveted parking space in your city??
Give up???? Right under the "NO PARKING" board.... especially if you are driving a police or govt vehicle!
Any place is safe as long as there is a kid collecting fare for the parking and issues you a ticket.... else you come back and make a mandatory trip to the local traffic police station, hassle with the cops and cough up cold hard cash for your hot sleek auto!
OK, so paid parking is good, safe and you get your auto back from the same parking space where you paid for and left it!! I just said you are bound to get your auto back in the same parking space.... I never said it would be in the same shape??? Road romeos standing against your auto pretending it was a wall... Damn, there goes the paint job!!!! Your neighbour at the parking lot happened to be in a hurry! Daam, there goes the paint job again!!!! Ever wonder why you did not save up and buy the tank from the army surplus store? Sideswiping other autos would have been such a painless activity! Sounds like fun... I am saving up to buy the neat two seater tank with a uzi perched on top. Does about 60 KMPH and gives about 5 KMs per Litre of petrol! It even has desert camaflouge painted! NEAT
Some say its safer to car pool. What about the poor guy who is the designated driver for the day/week? Hehehehehe. Let him suffer. When its my chance, wife took the car!!
Nuts around see a lady driving a car and they say "L" board! Whats that? "Lady board". What did you think? That she was a learner? Hell no, ladies drive much safer than guys. There are enough guys around who believe that if a lady is commanding a vehicle, its safer to keep away from that vehicle! Isn't that an amazing solution to keep your vehicle in sparkling condition? Engine? I never said your engine is going to remain under the hood! It fell off at the 10th mile marker!!
Autorikshaws!!! Enough has been said and they have been written down, commented to dust! But I hail them. Why? They are one unique breed who will take you from point A to point B within the least amount of time and fleece you before you can figure what happened!! They can squeeze into that tight spot where you lost your rear view mirror and manage to give you a neat little scratch for a reminder....Damn there goes the paint job some more! I am sanding the car tomorrow and driving it around with out any paint job on it. Got one up on you now! Now I drive YOU crazy!
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