No-no-no! Damn! I curse under my breath just as the green turns yellow. I see the local policewala resting one hand on his pulsar and the other stroking his potbelly affectionately, looking at me with anticipation, hoping to catch me for jumping the red. I am in no mood to contribute my hard earned money towards his fund-raising for his plan to spend some time getting drunk tonight and so just decide to wait and switch off my engine. As I look around, I frown thinking of how Bangalore has come up with signals at almost every circle, including the one square-foot one near the baju wala bakery! How I miss the wide roads of Bangalore that were free of the ever increasing metro blocks and these irritating signals.... Its then that I hear the "HONK! H-O-N-K! HH-OO-NN-KK!" coming from behind me. I look at the signal. Still red. To kyun honk kar raha hai? I turn and find a fiery red Accent behind me. An arrogant guy with"I-am-in-a-hurry, don't you see times my money" written all over his face is the desperate driver. I look at him and point to the signal. I can see him frown. Arey mujhe bhi to jaldi hai! But because namma sarkara has decided to come up with all these signals, we have no choice but to respect them, correct? (Unless of course we want the "love letters" from the thana delivered home). The Accent guy honks some more. I impatiently tap my foot and ignore him. Finally he stops.
5-4-3... As I switch on my engine, the despo behind me begins honking again. Arey uncleji, just as I saw the yellow turn red, I can also see the red turn green. I know I have to move. Why the hell do you have to honk? As I move to the left, the Accent guy races ahead like a madman, honking his way through. I hardly move 10 meters ahead and I reach the next signal. Our man is again stuck at the signal, this time ahead of me. There is a black Skoda between us. Just as I begin to admire the Skoda, the Skoda guy honks loudly at the Accent guy. Guess what? The Accent guy now looks out of his window and points to the red signal!
"Do unto others, as you would have them do to you" ;-)
7 comments:
hehe good one !!
if you are on a 4wheeler.. the real fun begins when it turns green.. slowwwww start and occupy the whole lane :)
Hehehe! Nice one Nu, would have been sweet revenge to torture the guy if u were in the 4 wheeler and resorted to that slowwwww start!!
This is Bangalore !!
So much hurry and so much desperation to sneak in just in time before the signal shows RED...
and to fly off at very GREEN to let out all the frustration of being stranded at some seconds on RED..
Good blog though
Hope BBMP and Cops read it and reduce some 1000 signals in Blore
Hey thr,
Its Piyush from Cut1, stumbled over your blog and I must say quite a funny and interesting post. But whats more important is so very true.
I have a simple for all those in-a-hurry and cant-see-signal types...
"Boss, why HONK? Its not like I have parked my wheels in the middle of the Road!!"
he he.. remember the potbelly comment .. heeee heee
Thank you Raju, Shippu, Venki and Piyush!
@Shreenath, ofcourse I remember that comment :D Its always true of policemen who want to catch people!
Indeed well written and funny :)
Nice !
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