Daily Travel Tales
As you probably know by now, I live in the supposed “millennium city” of India. That’s the only thing abt it that sounds good. The reality is far from it. Anyways….
The second thing you all should know is that I do not have a driving license as yet. Why? Plain laziness! And no more am I allowed to drive without one (i.e. license). So next week is when I go to the RTO to get my learner’s.
The third thing you must know is that three modes of transport is what I have to use each way, when I have to travel to saddi Dilli!
Rickshaw to the place I find those sharing BPO cabs. Then the cab or a bus, if there are no cabs willing to go in my direction. And from there an autorickshaw to wherever in Delhi I have to go. Btw, if I don’t travel by cab but the bus… all my travel is done via eco-frndly ways! Tadaang!
Anyways, this being Haryana, it’s quite interesting to listen ppl talk. Nope, not the BPO crowd with fake accents, but the natives. This was a conversation that happened between 3 friends, I overheard in a cab…
Jaat 1: Yaar! Woh kampooter ka ke huaa?
Jaat 2: Arrey ruk… (calls up someone, talks for sometime andn hangs up)
Jaat 3: Ke huaa? Ke bola woh?
Jaat 2: Kuch naee. Bol riya tha ki kampooter 30 hazaar ka padey.
Jaat 1: Hain! Mhara dost toh 24 hazaar ka bole
Jaat 2: Ke keh riya hai! Aisa kaise?
Jaat 3: Arre toh uss kampooter mein CPU nahi hoga na!
The other two nod in complete agreement…
This other time it was fun listening to jaat cab drivers, talking in filmy voices over the radio. It’s even more fun the way they turn up the volume when a Himesh’s song plays on the radio. Fun to watch them enjoy the song, not fun to listen to the song… if you thought otherwise.
Besides that, the only part I despise is haggling with the autowallahs. Now I almost have a set script written. The same arguments given and taken. At times they work, at times they don’t. And strangely all the autorickshaw meters decided to stop working and never get repaired.
Yeneways, weekend is around. Hope it turns out to be good! :)
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wah wah wah !!!
chhori ne jaat takar gaye laage hai.
aji badhiya hai :-D
hahaha…nice conversation that was.I wonder if u were tempted to guide them to the ‘right computer’,Pix?:)As for the non-working autorick meters,I thought that situation had been resolved…well,some things are not meant to change,I guess.
well true. its still far from being a millenium city. o well…in time mayb. and yea….i could just resonate the convn. in my head. Not of offend anyone but Haryanvi i think is a very crude language by nature. pyaar bhi agar kuchh bolo to lagta hai ki pathhar maar raha hai. in that respect i think punjabi is beautiful. i mean not the tooti footi hindi-mix city punjabi but thodi si more genuine punjabi
as for your commute…i wudnt be able to all that for more than 1 day mayb….even if theres a very major reason to do so. u not getting license n doing all this infact makes u less lazy. doing so much hardwork.
Arvind - haan re chorre!
AmitL - i was tempted to tell them that probably it had no monitor, mouse or keyboard either :D
khotta - true abt the lang. but they are rather upfront n straight fwd… which is a good thing. and i still think im very lazy. avoiding all the work of going to the RTO
And strangely all the autorickshaw meters decided to stop working and never get repaired…
same here with the taxis here…:P
hor chorrri kya mast see conversesion leekh daali..mast kaan hai thaaro:P
you argue with them?
*impressed*
haha good one..
You travel Delhi by bus? Wow! Very few women I know would ever do that….
Well, I aint complaining, as long as you put across those lively conversations you hear on ya blog!
lol… nice conv b/w the jaats..