These days I travel to office by car almost everyday... My God!!! Its pure torture.
My poor aunt has been doing this for god only knows how many years. I dont know how she takes it, day in and day out... More importantly poor car... That thing suffers more torture in one day then most of us do in a lifetime.
Travelling to office is like an adventure these days, potholes every few feet, inefficient attendants in the toll naka (during peaks hours we end up waiting for 10-15 mins), crazy driver-driven tourist vehicles and of course, how can I forget our lovely ST Buses!!! Who needs esselworld... I say sell tickets and make people drive in Bombay... its as gut wrenching as any roller-coaster.
The other day on my way back from the airport, suddenly the road was all clear... I was shocked!!! Morning peak hour, how the hell can Western Express Highway be empty??? And then I saw a sight which made my blood boil. There was a motorcade of abt 5 cars about 100 feet ahead of us... It was probably some ass minister or MLA or some other illiterate idiot travelling to some place.
It made me so mad to see that. How will this city and this country ever improve. The desicion makers have no idea what we suffer... Everytime they need to get somewhere the rest of us fools wait around and make way for them. We let them travel by the better roads in the city and travel by the bad roads ourselves... why???Instead what we should do is make an added effort to crowd around these motorcades and create a traffic jam around them. Let them know what we suffer, make them drive thru the bad roads like the rest of us. I'm telling you once they jump their cars over a few ditches and feel that painful jerk on their backs, see how quickly the infrastructure of this ciy changes.
What we forget is this city is run by a bunch of self-centred fools and the only way to tackle them is to give them a dose of their own shit. So the next time someone asks you to wait for a motorcade, show them the finger and go your way. Hopefully by making their life hell we can improve ours.
My poor aunt has been doing this for god only knows how many years. I dont know how she takes it, day in and day out... More importantly poor car... That thing suffers more torture in one day then most of us do in a lifetime.
Travelling to office is like an adventure these days, potholes every few feet, inefficient attendants in the toll naka (during peaks hours we end up waiting for 10-15 mins), crazy driver-driven tourist vehicles and of course, how can I forget our lovely ST Buses!!! Who needs esselworld... I say sell tickets and make people drive in Bombay... its as gut wrenching as any roller-coaster.
The other day on my way back from the airport, suddenly the road was all clear... I was shocked!!! Morning peak hour, how the hell can Western Express Highway be empty??? And then I saw a sight which made my blood boil. There was a motorcade of abt 5 cars about 100 feet ahead of us... It was probably some ass minister or MLA or some other illiterate idiot travelling to some place.
It made me so mad to see that. How will this city and this country ever improve. The desicion makers have no idea what we suffer... Everytime they need to get somewhere the rest of us fools wait around and make way for them. We let them travel by the better roads in the city and travel by the bad roads ourselves... why???Instead what we should do is make an added effort to crowd around these motorcades and create a traffic jam around them. Let them know what we suffer, make them drive thru the bad roads like the rest of us. I'm telling you once they jump their cars over a few ditches and feel that painful jerk on their backs, see how quickly the infrastructure of this ciy changes.
What we forget is this city is run by a bunch of self-centred fools and the only way to tackle them is to give them a dose of their own shit. So the next time someone asks you to wait for a motorcade, show them the finger and go your way. Hopefully by making their life hell we can improve ours.
