Its mid April, and all I've been thinking is coming up with a sensible post . Nah :(
Teasing the teaser
It was some months back.Some Saturday afternoon.I had got up in the bus from my stop and got a window seat. A couple of stops later, a man got up , and sat beside me.A few minutes later he started behaving as if I'm his newly wed wife, putting his hands around the seat and odd stuffs suchlike.So. I turned towards him and asked him to behave properly.He called back his hands and tried to sit properly, though he kept pushing inside.I was on the verge of praying to God that this chap gets down somewhere near, when he called the conductor and got a ticket for Park Street. Gosh!
Now I thought that I was wasting the window seat by thinking about this idiot and started looking outside.Now again this man started pushing and trying to put his hand around.That was too much , I thought.Even the most wild billi of mine listens to me, but this man was worse. I just turned towards him, and said, "Why can't you just behave properly??" I don't remember whether there was something exceptional in my tone. The man said, "S-sor-ry" and promptly ran out of the bus. The place was some 8 km away from Park Street!
In the family
At times I wonder why both of my parents are engineers?
I tell you why.
On a recent trip to a seaside holiday, in the train. Conversations.
Me and my brother , as usual and as expected, talking crap.
-"Hey see those lotus leaves in the pond".
-"Hey remember how we used to count cows on our way to Jamshedpur?"
-"Not me idiot, you and Mithudidi used to."
-"What are those scarecrows made up of?"
Now my Mom gets excited seeing something.
-"What are those? Beside the scare crows?How come the utility poles are so wide apart? Doesn't that violate the norms?"
Now my father steps in.
-"Thats a three-phase leakage transformer, right? Its okay, you can't expect better mounting, at least in villages."
-"Last dat I was checking the 98B clause of the Electricity Act,it does mention the implementation of APDRP. blah blah.
And this the general scenario everywhere, in the dining table, in the car :(
Beginner's guide to Bargaining
3 simple steps: (from a Mtv program)
1> Shock shock shock---> Whatever price you are told at the beginning, just convey to the man , that you are simply shocked by the high price.
2>Know your maths---> You need to be really quick.
3>Half is full---> Remember this thumb rule. Even if you can't gauge the exact price of the product , just bring it down to half an your job is quite done.
No Eureka
Most of the cities have banned people from sitting beside the autowallah in an autoride. I don't mean to sound like robbing a privilege though.Now suppose you are sitting either on the right or left of the autowallah and the auto takes a winding turn.Are you going to fall towards the autowallah or will have a possibility of falling outside.
On this futile note I end this post :(
Self Appraisal
1 week ago
13 comments:
Quite a sensible post I must say.
Mission accomplished.
ewwwwwwwwww why didnt you slap the leach??!! good that he got off early!! poor you.. what an experience...
btw u should go shopping with me.. im one helluva bargainer... :)
oye...do dena tha :X :X :X...to that kook man....
nyways..my mom do the same..while shopping :D:D..
Wow your parents are interesting :). The way to Jamshedpur is flocked with cows and hillocks , par ...deshi cow , deshi pahad :) ...
I hate bargaining . Good post .
1. slap slap slap those types
2. arre so many advantages! for eg : that workshop wala book from your dads student days
3.seriously even food court people can cheat ,if u dont know your numbers
4........i think you've had the experience of being in an upturned auto
OMG! I've been groped a gazillion times on buses and initially, I used to adjust or move away from the creep but not anymore! ONE TIGHT SLAP is all it takes :D
quite a nice one!!
good job with that teaser!! bargaining has never been my cup of tea... as for parents, am bless with a technocrat for dad, n chem phd for mum... so, not much of a code lang. talk around... but, i end up in a soup still...
tht was one hell of a technical jargon of a conversation:D
may be u gave him the fierce look with the angry tone and that man vanished from the bus..............phew !!!!!!!!
hats off to ur parents .............they are really genius ..!!!!!
i dont know to bargain , dont know much abt this :(
dont worry ..............u fill never runout ofthe aotu rickshaw...............and if you do .use a helmet while in the auto :D
NICE POST M NEW TO UR BLOG
Well you could have tried to scare him off by putting your hands around him.. just a joke.
nice post.
not a bargain, but wholesome post which is good satisfaction for a day!!
oye good ramble here :) and FCUK tat man in bus.. bargaining... err.. I usually end up paying double the price.. thanks for the thumb rules :) hugs matey :)
this was a highly entertaining post.but what a creep that man musta been.am glad you ticked him off :D
quite a nice way of putting together a post!!!
n yeah i have faced those kinda leachers in the bus...n the steps go like:
a loud stare
pray he gets down at the next stop
shout back
such men should be hanged on their ****...just yesterday i had been to a religious place n this man sitting next to me was doin all sorts of things to get my attention..n when i got up frm there...he started following me n i just didn't wanna shout at him there to maintain the sanctity of the place.....creep
they should be screwed real hard...
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