Thursday, 22 December 2011

Ironies : The Bangalore Style




We Bangaloreans:

Switch on the fans the moment we enter the elevator and ensure we leave it on once we get off the lift, though we might come in our cars without the AC. The moment we enter the office we need all the luxuries.

Wait tirelessly without switching off the engines at the traffic signals, ensure that we spend enough fuel to last a couple of Kms more, but want the petrol price to be reduced. We are already getting lower mileage because of the frequent petrol price hikes.

We ensure we take our vehicles out to the nearby grocery store and idle the vehicle when we meet our good old neighbor to chat, again we are so perplexed as to how the petrol price is hiked so frequently getting us low mileage.

Honk incessantly the moment the signal goes green though our vehicle might have lined up half a km behind other vehicles at the signal.

Again we honk the moment the signal goes green, as if we think the vehicle rider in front of us is having a hearty nap using the couple of minutes he got at the signal, folding his legs sitting on the seat.

We ensure we cross the road with our hands signaling the oncoming fast vehicles to slow down for us to cross though we know we would be getting cursed by the driver. Infact we would also have cursed when the roles change when we are driving and someone else crosses in similar fashion.

At cross roads push our vehicles a bit more in the front so the vehicles to our right or left and front cant move an inch and ensure the traffic gridlock continues till some auto walla jumps out and dons the role of a traffic police to clear the gridlock.