Will We Ever Learn?

I'm back to my bickering; can't help it much. When I see nonsense and I'm not allowed to do what I'm supposed to, it bothers me.

Traffic and the Desi attitude: By far, I find this to be the most annoying one. Everybody wants to go first. Picture this – where there's traffic on one end, all the vehicles from the other end will just cram up wherever there's space. Numbskulls don't realise that it's clogging the whole freaking road. The point is "Even if I don't get it it's fine, but I need to ensure that YOU don't get it." And to do this, we'll break signals, bribe the Mamas, run over innocent people. Killing people here is not that big a crime if you got the power of 'Vitamin M'. Again the same shit starts: buy witnesses, kill them or destroy them, bribe babus... somewhere I feel David Scott Mustaine of Megadeth had India in mind when he was writing Killing is my business...

Mob mentality: This you can find everywhere. Where there are queues, mob mentality makes its ugly presence felt. Simplest of all examples is lunchtime at a Cafeteria or better a Dining Hall - instead of behaving in a disciplined way and waiting for my turn, I'll just pounce on the guy who's serving food. I'll just shove my plate into his face and scream "Arrey ithe waadh na aadhi!". I'm not just alone there. There are scores and scores of hungry wolves who do this and this just scares the jeebies out of the poor guy on the other end.

Most popular examples of it being our weddings, functions and festivals. My due respects to everyone's sentiments, but just one thing. You book a hall or a hotel or a whatever; get inside that room and do whatever you feel like doing. Why block the roads with some band playing the lousiest of music and hamper traffic or steal one's peace of mind?

Senselessness in the name of God: One more thing now that I've opened this topic up - what's with this new Toran prakaran? which is on similar lines of a Ganapati miravnuk. Everywhere these days (Navratra) I see certain groups organizing unwarranted processions; the kitschy music going hand in hand leading to plenty of unnecessary headaches for the locals. And if that's in a way interlinked: when there's traffic, refer above.

On the hindsight, dear God, I feel sorry for you.

We'll never understand that one doesn't need policing to behave well. Simple fact - Money can buy you everything, but not the basic etiquette.