Monday, May 26, 2008

How can I stay cool...

Today I was in a bad mood..very bad mood..
It started right from morning.
I use to start by 8:45 or I will have to enjoy miserable Hosur road traffic.
Just as I was leaving home our maid came.
And I woke my roommate up so that he can keep an eye on her.
I was dusting my bike, and saw the Swacha Bangaluru lady picking up garbage from the house owner.
Remembering our garbage is a week fresh, I asked her whether she can pick our garbage too.
She turned out to know only Kannada and my little Tamil also didn't help.
I ran upstairs and found the one who was supposed to keep an eye on maid was in deep sleep.
Then my maid came to help the situation..
She knew Tamil but pretended like she didn't understand me and was talking to the SB woman.
In the end they made me pay 30 bucks to her and I (mis)understand that she will pick the garbage everyday...
Hope she will...

But that took a good half an hour of my precious time and I am on road hard to move forward.

After the Forum signal, there was a jam.
And as the Qualis in front of me moved to a side I accelerated my bike and only too late to found a dog carcass just ahead of me...
It was fresh (!) and I was too late to brake...
Thank God I didn't fell down riding over it.
But there was blood and small flesh pieces all over my shoes and jeans..
Crap..
Perfect start of the day...

And arriving office, I realised I didn't get the complete money transferred from my friend.
Though he confirmed the complete amount was sent, it was not showing in my account.
I called our "Priority Customer Relationship Manager" and she promised a call back in half an hour.
I needed to call her twice more and to my irritation she started talking to me in Hindi and add to that started using 'yaar, mein aaj ghar jaane se pehle kar doongi' and all..
I was so frustrated that I called her manager to get the status.
He said he will definitely sort it out by tomorrow morning...
He might better...


And on way back, the narrow Rest House Road was blocked.
On right side a Coke van was sorting their load and left a Kingfisher auto unloading for the pub, leaving hardly space for a Maruti...
When all the vehicles started honking ( that is special in Bangalore, even you are the last one in a signal, just as the signal turn green, you will start honking... ) the auto moved to a side and the traffic easened...


But not everything was bad either..
Today I saw a special auto...
An auto with a TV..
Can you believe it...
It was decorated by big posters of tigers and lions and Rajkumar and there was this small B&W TV for the passenger...
Nice thinking considering the traffic jams...

1 comment:

  1. Hmmm..... Looks like you had a very long day, Mr.Long Nose!!! :-)

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