Beep Beep !!

Of late two of my friends have gone on record asking me why I haven’t written any new blogs! I am proud to say that atleast ten to fifteen people read my blog. My blog visit counter has recently crossed the thousand mark (I think more than 200 of them would have been because of me alone :D). If only I had the email id of my English teacher at school Ms.Subhadra krishnakumar I could have proved her wrong that I too can write. But I fear she would remark sarcastically that my grammar was still wrong and without Ms-Word’s auto correct feature, this blog would be a mess of mis-spelt words. I remember she made me look like an idiot in an exam hall when I was in twelfth std then, it was quarterly exam and on the fateful day I had missed the ‘r’ written ‘quaterly’ on my answer sheet. I was happy that I had finally completed the paper on tim and submitted my answer sheet to her-the examiner- and prepared to leave, and she bellowed “Ramakrishnan, your spelling is still bad !! Cant you spell quarterly” and laughed out loud. It was soon followed by sniggers all around. Even then I was what would be called “thimuru pudiccha payyan” (thickheaded – Kapil, am I correct?). While the entire room was laughing I was wondering for a person who couldn’t pronounce my name properly (she use to call me Raymakrishan) she was going far over the limit, but with my poor oratory skills in english I couldn’t think of anything decent to say out to her. So I glared at her, and left the room when it became very uncomfortable for her. I became extra careful in exams later that year, taking care to spell correctly on the first sheet of the answer paper. It was a lose-lose situation anyway, if I spelled everything correctly from then on, she would say it was because of her constant criticism that I corrected myself and if still make those mistakes she would say she always knew I was a good for nothing fellow and wouldn’t improve. So there you have it, people higher than you always have an upper hand and they will always win any moral battle you throw at them.

Many times I have wondered whether I should kill the person honking from his car behind me in traffic or should I beat him up to death. As a barking dog which doesn’t bite, I do neither and carry on. Have you asked yourself at traffic signals, when you have no inch to move any further, why the people in bikes and cars around you honking their horns incessantly? I have two points of arguments for not using horns at such situations:

One, if you are on a bike and in traffic, you can always move into nooks and corner and come out, so you have no reason for using horn unnecessarily.

Two, if you are in car, you are anyway at the mercy of the driver in front as you cannot move any inch right or left lest you scratch your sweet little car. So why not stop playing with people’s eardrums and wait for the other guy to move, after a cursory honk to let him know someone is waiting behind?

There is one more thing I don’t like is people honking when you can see clearly that the guy in front is making a U-turn. Why not wait for him to complete?

But people have different needs and urgencies, for all I know the person sitting in the white santro could be late for his meeting with George Bush, and not to the forget the NASA return lungi clad man on his Indian hayabusa aka splendor, ofcourse the next-door-aunty late for her desh bachao andolan in paris. And ofcourse the cool dude on his karizma with his tight t-shirt and tighter jeans really tense because of his exams at IIT. All the while I sit humbly on my bike waiting for the din to die down and huge tanker in front of me to move on knowing that even if I did honk my horn the lorry is not gonna move anyway