The eternal wait!
9:50 in the night is not a bad time to travel in bangalore. And when you get out of Forum, you expect to be in Airport road in about 20 minutes. A line of waiting cars on Hosur road is too common a sight if you have been around for sometime. But when not a fly moves for more then a dozen minutes, you obviously venture to check what is happening.
Apparently, the news in the 10th file of vehicles from the epicenter of all the chaos was that a policeman had slapped an auto driver. 10 files hence, someone was telling everyone that a police officer had stabbed an auto driver. I decided to find it out myself, got out of the bike and stretched myself to spot a whole array of autos and auto drivers lined across the road; Some of them were screaming and the rest of them were punching their fisits into nothing.
Realizing it's going to take a lot of time to sort out, my friends and I pulled the bike onto the pavement and thought we will walk till we cross the point of crisis. Just as we were trying to make our way through two autos on the pavement, a pizza delivery scooter whisked past us and tried making its way through the autos. A balding, old man in khakis rushed towards the scooter, caught hold of it and asked the guy to retreat. "But sir, I have to go. delivery sir". "Don't you see the trouble here! Go back and wait there". Of course!! An auto driver has been hit and how can anyone go home or deliver pizzas or eat them in their cozy dining rooms. The pizza guy finally manage to wriggle out when the auto driver wasn't watching. We also made our way out throw a hundred detours.
But as we crossed the road through the forum premises, I looked back at all the guys who were giving us company till not so long ago. Not one moved; no one was irritated or was trying to find their way out. They stretched their arms and waited for the chaos to clear by itself. 10:50 in the night, ~J gave me a call and told me that the problem was sorted just then. I thought of all those who were waiting, and wondered how long their patience lasted; how numb the lifestyle here has made them; And how resigned they are to the behaviour of traffic that recoils and fails to move at the slightest provocation or spurt of activity.
Dark clouds roamed above and the thunders roared - Fate asketh thee to wait till eternity and thy shalt do so.
Yes my lord. No objection my lord.
Apparently, the news in the 10th file of vehicles from the epicenter of all the chaos was that a policeman had slapped an auto driver. 10 files hence, someone was telling everyone that a police officer had stabbed an auto driver. I decided to find it out myself, got out of the bike and stretched myself to spot a whole array of autos and auto drivers lined across the road; Some of them were screaming and the rest of them were punching their fisits into nothing.
Realizing it's going to take a lot of time to sort out, my friends and I pulled the bike onto the pavement and thought we will walk till we cross the point of crisis. Just as we were trying to make our way through two autos on the pavement, a pizza delivery scooter whisked past us and tried making its way through the autos. A balding, old man in khakis rushed towards the scooter, caught hold of it and asked the guy to retreat. "But sir, I have to go. delivery sir". "Don't you see the trouble here! Go back and wait there". Of course!! An auto driver has been hit and how can anyone go home or deliver pizzas or eat them in their cozy dining rooms. The pizza guy finally manage to wriggle out when the auto driver wasn't watching. We also made our way out throw a hundred detours.
But as we crossed the road through the forum premises, I looked back at all the guys who were giving us company till not so long ago. Not one moved; no one was irritated or was trying to find their way out. They stretched their arms and waited for the chaos to clear by itself. 10:50 in the night, ~J gave me a call and told me that the problem was sorted just then. I thought of all those who were waiting, and wondered how long their patience lasted; how numb the lifestyle here has made them; And how resigned they are to the behaviour of traffic that recoils and fails to move at the slightest provocation or spurt of activity.
Dark clouds roamed above and the thunders roared - Fate asketh thee to wait till eternity and thy shalt do so.
Yes my lord. No objection my lord.
posted by Rathish at 1:54 PM
1 Comments:
I have used and re-used Milton's quote so i shall remain silent. But then the post deserves an intellectual comment and so here i am : "The things that come to those who wait, may be the things left by those who were there first. " -- Steven tyler:)
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