I take a spiffy right turn,
hum my current favorite ditty and throw a smile at this absolutely gorgeous,
drop dead gorgeous- baby! I am cruising along at a comfortable speed of about
40 when I suddenly spot a two wheeler- no, not two wheelers and dealers, but a
two wheeled contraption, bearing a striking resemblance to the one used by Amol
Palekar in 'Choti si Baat'. I am understandably transfixed by the sight but,
and herein lies the catch, so it seems are they. Yeth, yeth, I know I am using
the personal pronoun in the plural -they, and you will quite likely want to
know who is the 'they'. I mean only the person sitting pillion can look at me
because the other has to propel the lambretta forward ( a la Amol.P) in the
aforementioned movie. But, here it was 'they' who were looking, gesturing and
speaking to me. It was, you guessed right, another instance of traffic
rules being flouted. There were not one but two riding pillion!
Anyways, no one can accuse me
of being socially challenged and so I too , sort of ,acknowledged
them .The girl sitting at the back waved her arms - I thought she was being
slightly over enthusiastic and raised an eyebrow. Next,- it was the turn
of the girl in the middle. She contorted her ample body to turn and
give me a ' look.' I raised my other eyebrow. But it was only when the
scooterist also turned and gesticulated and mouthed something which certainly
did not look as if he was asking for my autograph that I realized that
something was wrong. I looked at the car door-not open. Check.seat belt-on.
Check. Terrosist in the back seat-no. Check. I again looked at the trio. Heavens!
They-yes all three of them- seemed to be having a problem with my driving.
Well, well, well. I can take 'comments' about my driving from the husband and
the girl and the boy , but from these characters? no way. I was mentally
rolling up my sleaves and thinking of some of the 'choisest' (in english,
ofcourse) when I heard this screeching of tyres.
Guess what? the traffic
police had just pulled up next to them and were handing out a slip ( challan? )
in just the way shown in movies .
What is it 'they' say about divine justice?
What is it 'they' say about divine justice?
I'm also a scooterist in Delhi, Anju. A decent one, I believe.
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