These yellow and black three wheeled fellows… as much as we hate them we just can’t do without them in this city can we?
Recap of a few conversations I had recently with friends
SCENE 1: driving past my office
Poojitha: hey hey, this building is where I work… my office is on the first floor
Friend 1: oh this one is it…
Friend 2: wow not bad, this place is not too far from your home is it? How do u travel everyday?
Poojitha: yeah it’s not too far, 20 Rs by auto!!!
SCENE 2: on Gmail chat
Friend: hey, I m going to be coming down to Bangalore day after tomorrow.
Poojitha: wow, that’s great… how are u gonna be travelling?
Friend: I am taking the night train from here, will reach Bangalore in the morning. Acha tell me how far is Marathalli from Majestic
Poojitha: hmmmm hmmmmm hmmmm distance hmmm….
Friend: acha chodo… bol auto mein kitna padega
Poojitha: :) auto mein around 150!!
These conversations got me thinking on how I have stopped measuring distances in kms or even time… it’s now measured by the AUTO FARE. I wondered if it was just me and so I started paying attention to how people responded when asked How far is so and so place??? …. Ha ha and 90 % of the time it is the AUTO FARE!!
These fellows have become such an integrated part of our lives that they have replaced the common measurements of distances!!! Sheesh!!
I wonder if any of those time and distance sums back in school would have been easier if they had to be solved using auto fares instead.. Like we had a Log Book (that cute lil blue book which I began to find less cute as we progressed through the chapters in our maths text book)…What if we had an auto fare reference book to solve sums!!!
STUPIDITY I know… wonder why I even typed those last few lines :)
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