Bus Diaries …

Posted by: Manny on: August 6, 2008

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Bus travel can be equally reminiscent of college life. Because it can make you a busaholic – when you start preferring buses, for long distance travel, over other modes of transport. For the others it can be a traumatic experience and has an exact opposite effect 😛 ! My reluctant association with buses started 3 yrs back.

When i wanted to write this blog entry ,i couldn’t help thinking about my route’s bus driver.

He is affectionately called “Thatha”.

There isn’t a day when our bus driver fails to get cursed by another road user for our man’s road rage 🙂 [ and its probably the side effect of a hangover 😛 !]. The victim would unleash a slew of abuses.

One of the mentionable ones ,- an angry ” I will Knock all your teeth OUT ! ” . You can only laugh when he says this because our man doesn’t have much to loose, he has very few teeth and it is as good as having none. He usually responds long after the angry guy has threatened Thatha in every possible way. Because by that time the poor road user would have given up and left, gasping for breath, not to mention a perplexed expression of not having evoked the slightest reaction from the driver 😆 [Years of practise doing the trick for Thatha 🙂 !!] . He now and then lets loose his punch lines that just knock you out 😯 cold .

Then there are the bus races. Actually none of this is ever pre-planned, they just haPPen !! I still can’t forget the day when Thatha and an FLSmidth bus did some sort of a ” Dogfight ” [ 😀 ] among buses. It was a clash of contrasting proportions, Thatha hardly ever steps on the accelerator pedal and the Smidth guy hardly ever steps off it ! Same goes for the fleet that our next door neighbour flaunts 🙂 .

Yama rides on college buses these days 😉 . The context of that line should be well known to you if u are a part of AIHT [Well …! if you aren’t a part of it , don’t bother thinking about it, why waste brain cells when u are not going to hear that name a second time 😀 ?!].

But accidents are a serious issue which means that it belongs to a totally different dimension from this blog [not that this blog deals with any logical issues either … !].

And if u have found this even remotely funny, then stop smiling, because in reality it has taken lives 😐 . [I ‘ll excuse myself for posting serious stuff this instant alone ..] Though this is a funny take on a serious issue, its scary – to see these buses take off and land – when these bus drivers play with the lives of college goers just to prove a point to another driver 😆 – when they refuse to shift to a lower gear – when running over a dog or a cow is an everyday thing – when drivers of such vehicles don’t realise, there are other road users – and when escaping the law is as easy as 100 bucks [as i found out 😀 !]

😀

Cheers,

Manny

[P.S: This entry isn’t the product of any grudge that i hold against the driver 😛 . But this is just somebody’s vain attempt [mine !] to finish one last post. Ok, maybe there is one more to follow 🙂 , before I take a break from blogging. ]

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