the curious incident of a car in night time

Saturday, April 22, 2006

What a day !! drove 1.5 hours from Gurgaon to Delhi only to find that 'd forgotten the housekeys @ Gurgaon. went back around 11.30 in the night to fetch the keys back and ran into the worst traffic pile-up in delhi that i've ever had the misfortune to be in. By using the Alto as a new-age SUV..managed to reach Gurgaon in 2 hours and some spare minutes. Decided that i could not endure another carathon. so slept.

and guess what..7.30 in the morning, started for Delhi & reached in some 35 odd minutes. darn!! shoulda stayed back in Gurgaon from the start and come to Delhi in the morning itself..instead of tying to tie up all work by evening.

Moral of the Story: being lazy pays off.

While in the long 4 hour to & fro drive..i've realised how radio stations contribute to the general state of semi-road rage in Delhi. after all, how many times can you hear "ooooohhh huzzoooooorrr" in one night. once, twice or if particularly brave thrice ? I listened to this and other mind-numbing skull-busting himesh whatshisname hits five times..thats one play every 48 minutes !!

Next time..someone plz road-rage the topi-waala music director.

When i was a kid, NH $ meant open roads and frightful truck drivers who rolled over you in their sleep. right now, i cant see how the poor souls can even drive.

Cars are like pieces of jigsaw. they plug all the available space for exit & entry to a road. Its like guerilla warfare out there. you never know who is gonna come and quickly take over that 1mm space that you had been eyeing beadily for the past 10 minutes.

And if u need to overtake, you have to stalk your prey like his shadow. familiarise yourself with his moves, anticipate the next ..feel at one with the driver ahead. and whenever you feel in his mind, a mild apprehension about changing lanes, go for the jugular. press the accelarator and brake at the same time and make a racket that will scare away a herd of approaching rhinos. Then let loose your car horn like the very sound of doom.

And while the prey lies mentally dazed and decapitated, go and claim ur now rightful section of the road. bon voyage.

Posted at 09:07 pm by Lord Q


	Sam June 14, 2006 07:16 AM PDT hey quint... really nice post... was laughin away... keep it up... :)


	Name April 27, 2006 01:10 AM PDT hehe..nice post :P IM guessing the title is a reword of Mark haddons book? Glad to see another well read pgite!

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