5.45PM - My friends and I were waiting for the bus to go back home. There was a huge traffic pile up every street and even in nearby Interstate ramps. "Mama" was omnipresent controlling traffic. The bus that usually comes at 5.40 and starts at 5.45 did not arrive till 6.30.
A cop parked his car on the road in an attempt to regulate traffic on a one-way street! He supposedly didn't know what he was doing. Buses usually turn right and arrive at the stop. Courtesy the cop, all buses were forced to divert towards the left (its a 50 degree turn only).
An official from the transport dept came around announcing that buses would start from a different place and so a crowd of close to 75 people ran towards the other boarding point which was about 250 feet away.
Based on our experiences in Chennai, we firmly believed that the cop will move his car and so, did not travel the full distance towards the new boarding point. We were waiting on the pavement and guess what? the cop moved the car away and the transport official came about apologizing to everybody asking people to go back. One could not hear the flurry of words people had reserved for that cop... siva sivaa... தேன் வந்து பாயுது காதினிலே...
This summarizes a daily routine in T.Nagar or any other big terminus in Chennai albeit with a difference... The transport official wouldn't have had any courtesy in Chennai, first to go about asking people to move and then apologize and ask them to move back.
3 comments:
agreed...was a gud entertainer over all...i was laughing my head off in one of the conversations dhanush has with the gundu friend of shreya whn she says "Hey...nee over-a pesare" and dhanush retorts "hey, nee overa thingare" and one other retort involving the financial status of shreya.
@Rams,
comments swap aayiduthu between posts :-)
Namma oorukku vella kaaran vandha avanungalukku allu thaan
:) Kholll!! finally another blog i could identify myself with!
correct-a sonne...madras-la bus pinnadi odina naal nyabagm vandutuchu!!
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