Travelling to office through a cab can be a fun ride or the most boring thing if the distance is too much and your co-passengers are not of 'Your types'.
While commuting to office from home and vice-versa, my cab has to pass through Lulla Nagar signal everyday.
'Signal'. It's not merely a halting spot but an open-air school if you are very observant. Especially during rainy season, you will definitely see/learn something new/weird thing at a signal. It may be a romantic chat/gestures between a couple on a bike standing next to your cab or a businessman talking on phone in his car in such a way that he is making that deal with all the people standing at that signal or a specially-abled person/kid tapping on the window of your car seeking some help or 'Signal Special Sellers' who sell small toys or car perfumes or tissue papers etc. You may also frequently witness arrogant citizens breaking traffic rules and still arguing with 'Mama' or sometimes the Mama is in mood to show his 'Mamagiri'!!
Coming back to Lulla Nagar signal. Similar to Facebook 'Likes', I bet this signal might have received maximum 'Curses' from the drivers as the duration (Red to Green and vice-versa) of this signal is merely 15 seconds (I am not joking!). So if you are lucky enough, then you may face the Red signal only once at this chowk or else you have to be a witness of the colour changing process at least 2-3 times. In the process, the face of the drivers also become Red ;)
Anyways, last month while going to office on a rainy evening, my cab waited at this signal. I was sitting next to the driver. There was a car standing ahead of our cab and an auto rickshaw ahead of that car. A signal is the only chance for the Signal Special Sellers to sell their stuff. One lady wearing worn clothes, had couple of nice umbrellas to sell. She approached to the auto rikshaw mentioned above. I was unable to see the customer sitting in the auto but soon caught hold of the sight due to their animated conversation. The customer from the auto was bargaining too much than the offered price by that lady. The lady kept pleading to give a certain amount but the customer didn't budge. Suddenly the signal turned green. The customer handed over few notes to the lady and the auto took off. The lady was screaming to give the desired amount and ran few steps behind the auto but the auto passed in a flash in front of that helpless lady. The poor soul kept looking at the notes with a great disappointment. Somehow she had found a customer but not a human being!
This incident made me think deeply.
The customer from that auto had money to travel by an auto but couldn't afford the price of that umbrella which the lady quoted.
Was that customer so poor than that lady?
Didn't he/she felt inappropriate while giving lesser money while buying the umbrella and rudely going through the auto when the lady kept running behind it?
Would that customer behave in the same way in a mall?
Was that customer more needy than the poor lady?
Did that auto driver felt guilty of the overall process of carrying such a heartless passenger? Or was he made up of same genes as that of the customer?
Will that customer ever realize his/her mistake while protecting himself/herself from rain using that umbrella?
Does that lady ever got an amount as per MRP quoted by her?
World is moving so fast and so does time. Agreed, but is it a mandate to become insensitive to such an extent? I immediately discussed that incident with my driver who also noticed this scene. He also felt the wrong doing of that customer. The old man was of the same opinion as mine that people are becoming so ignorant towards others that they just see their own benefit. Feelings are getting lost day by day. If today's parents are developed in this way then I wonder what their offsprings of tomorrow would be like.
This same signal has many pot holes but the hole which this entire episode created on my mind will always remain and remind me of that unpleasant incident whenever I pass through this signal.....
While commuting to office from home and vice-versa, my cab has to pass through Lulla Nagar signal everyday.
'Signal'. It's not merely a halting spot but an open-air school if you are very observant. Especially during rainy season, you will definitely see/learn something new/weird thing at a signal. It may be a romantic chat/gestures between a couple on a bike standing next to your cab or a businessman talking on phone in his car in such a way that he is making that deal with all the people standing at that signal or a specially-abled person/kid tapping on the window of your car seeking some help or 'Signal Special Sellers' who sell small toys or car perfumes or tissue papers etc. You may also frequently witness arrogant citizens breaking traffic rules and still arguing with 'Mama' or sometimes the Mama is in mood to show his 'Mamagiri'!!
Coming back to Lulla Nagar signal. Similar to Facebook 'Likes', I bet this signal might have received maximum 'Curses' from the drivers as the duration (Red to Green and vice-versa) of this signal is merely 15 seconds (I am not joking!). So if you are lucky enough, then you may face the Red signal only once at this chowk or else you have to be a witness of the colour changing process at least 2-3 times. In the process, the face of the drivers also become Red ;)
Anyways, last month while going to office on a rainy evening, my cab waited at this signal. I was sitting next to the driver. There was a car standing ahead of our cab and an auto rickshaw ahead of that car. A signal is the only chance for the Signal Special Sellers to sell their stuff. One lady wearing worn clothes, had couple of nice umbrellas to sell. She approached to the auto rikshaw mentioned above. I was unable to see the customer sitting in the auto but soon caught hold of the sight due to their animated conversation. The customer from the auto was bargaining too much than the offered price by that lady. The lady kept pleading to give a certain amount but the customer didn't budge. Suddenly the signal turned green. The customer handed over few notes to the lady and the auto took off. The lady was screaming to give the desired amount and ran few steps behind the auto but the auto passed in a flash in front of that helpless lady. The poor soul kept looking at the notes with a great disappointment. Somehow she had found a customer but not a human being!
This incident made me think deeply.
The customer from that auto had money to travel by an auto but couldn't afford the price of that umbrella which the lady quoted.
Was that customer so poor than that lady?
Didn't he/she felt inappropriate while giving lesser money while buying the umbrella and rudely going through the auto when the lady kept running behind it?
Would that customer behave in the same way in a mall?
Was that customer more needy than the poor lady?
Did that auto driver felt guilty of the overall process of carrying such a heartless passenger? Or was he made up of same genes as that of the customer?
Will that customer ever realize his/her mistake while protecting himself/herself from rain using that umbrella?
Does that lady ever got an amount as per MRP quoted by her?
World is moving so fast and so does time. Agreed, but is it a mandate to become insensitive to such an extent? I immediately discussed that incident with my driver who also noticed this scene. He also felt the wrong doing of that customer. The old man was of the same opinion as mine that people are becoming so ignorant towards others that they just see their own benefit. Feelings are getting lost day by day. If today's parents are developed in this way then I wonder what their offsprings of tomorrow would be like.
This same signal has many pot holes but the hole which this entire episode created on my mind will always remain and remind me of that unpleasant incident whenever I pass through this signal.....
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