Ok! It's time for one more rant! In the past few days I've ranted abt things that are specific to Punjabiz, Families and once in a while even the whole male or female population. But now it's time to discuss a topic that I feel is even more widespread than my earlier rants. I think it's something that all of us do. You know what? Maybe this is the common connection between all human beings. And what might this issue be? The inability to just accept that you don't know directions to a certain place. The saga beings.
Even if you are not as directionally challenged as me, I'm sure that you've asked someone or the other for directions at some point and I'm sure there have been several instances when these people were as clueless as you were abt your destination. But NEVER will you see people instantly telling you that they don't know. "I don't know," that's all they have to say. But that never happens.
The most popular gesture is when the asked person mentally calculates something. Sometimes the fingers join in as moving puppets to the thoughts. "Residency Road? Right? Well if that is Hosur Road and that is (long pondering pause) Vellara Junction then (now silence) ... then ... sorry, I have no idea!" What? Why couldn't you just tell me that earlier? I think somewhere down the line we feel that one has to be the most exquisite form of imbecile to be completely ignorant abt roads. Hence, we always put up a show before we accept defeat.
Sometimes things are even more fancy. The person concerned will call another friend of his. "Hey, man. Do you have any idea where the PVR Theatres are?" the hefty guy asks his friend who is eating lunch. The friend looks up and displays his expression of confusion but now it's his turn to put up a show. "PVR Theatres?" he asks again, with curd rice squirting out in joy. "What's showing there?" How does it matter what's showing there? I didnt ask you out for a date sir. It's just directions that I ask for.
To end this post I have to mention one more issue that I face and many of you might not have faced. I stay in a place with a fairly large local language speaking population who don't speak any English. Try asking them for directions. They always listen to you quietly and occasionally even repeat random words from your query - "BDA ... BDA ... Outer Ring Road" and after all that listening, they nod their heads and tell you "No Englees".
Why? Oh! Why? Oh!
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hail sir.....truly amazing and mesmerizing stuff. you seem to have a knack on wit, charm and satire in your writings, which i like the most. wat we say na 'DIRECT DIL SE' :). i have recommended your blogs to my friends too (must see). for you it may be rantings i perceive it as something which we have all gone through,people of of our times (i too belonging to that classical colossal era of doordarshan)ny ways keep ranting
Hey Abhineet... needless to say it feels great to see that you are following my posts closely....it will only increase the frequency of my posts ( which i think has already gone up ) do share some critic comments as well on some posts, if u feel it could have been expressed better... cheers
Abhi,thats so correct.I think people have not learnt the art of saying ''no i dont know''. Atleast I say that most of the time...
You are definetly making good the worth of your writing skills,i think if every other profession fails you will definetly have a chance in creative writing.
Hey Sunitha, many thanks for your kind words...i have been thinking about my career options as a creative writer, but i guess i am hapy whith what i am doing now. This way i can vent out my other life by writing... if i take to writing as my life, where will i vent out myself ?? The things that keep me wondering :-))
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