Archive for November 2008
Road rage
I still have the license number of his car on my mobile! Last week, there was a political rally in our city that created a traffic chaos in many areas, especially north Bangalore. Traffic came to a standstill thanks to our local politician who showed his power by bringing in 4000 busloads of rural families in our tiny conjested city roads for his political speech at Palace grounds. The result, traffic jam right from Cunningham road until the Airport. Any vehicle headed north would have been stuck for atleast 5-6 hours on the road before reaching home. Ours was also the one of the unfortunate ones.
But thats not the point. On such a day where everyone from the commuters to the traffic police were on their edge, I want to write about the only road rage instance I met. It was not from the usual auto-driver, but from a well-to-do educated and beefy bugger. He not only shouted at our chaffeur;when I raised my voice, he asked me to shut up and raised his car window. As his car went ahead, I saw ‘Coorg wildlife security’ sticker on it. His license number is KA04 MF 3915. I wonder if the Coorg animals are as wild as this dude.
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