What ticks you off ??. Is there anything that you've identified recently that could make you uncomfortable, it could be anything. Let's start from the monster manager, to the cling-on- super glue wife or the girl friend who won't let go after you got laid. Anyone, actually anything, could tick you off. I have recently Identified something that gives me a pain in the wrong part.
Honking, is something that I am unable to deal with.It could get into your nerves when you travel 15 miles to work every day, on roads built by the white men, who robed us of the Kohinoor but at least had the courtesy to construct roads that lasted, lasted till we were hit by the outsourcing mayhem and the cascading boom of the Indian middle class. Honking I have analyzed fall into a lot of categories, hell lot of them.
Call center cabs fall into the most unique category amongst them. It's as desperate as the cries of the kids inside to get out of the Industry, cabs with a call center tag is almost an ambulance. Tobacco,alcohol, probably a bit of cleavage and last but not least money per kilometer are the only motivation for these cabbies. They honk at everything, even a red light, cause for them all that matters is to drop these nerds and get to the next destination. The next category is the "retired honk", oldies who buy cars with their retirement money, forget their hearing aid @ home and then take all of us to world of dumbness.Oldies honk in a pattern, as if they saw something which they would like to grab but cannot, this type really ticks you off, cause the grocery store will never complain if they are late by five minutes.
The next kind of honking is the sophisticated I.T. honk. Mostly done by well dressed men, who either forgot to join a call, or are late for a meeting or got kicked by their working wife. These men, blame it all on the infrastructure, lane discipline etc. Men in this category treat the horn as their bosses face, they tab it consistently and then end it with an orgasmic smile. They wouldn't mind getting behind a bullock cart and honk, because at work they specialize in something similar "pushing underpaid kids to deliver world class technology".
Honking by rickshaws are like fart in a tornado, they never get heard, with the amount of noise around, their efforts to add to noise pollution is never recognized. Truckers and the bikers do their part, but then they really do not follow a pattern, it's simply irritating. Now the question is why do we honk, Is it that honking helps you get ahead. How many times do we think before we honk, does it actually give the desired results on the street. Let's ask an entirely different question, does your cribbing about life make it any better. How many of us think about car pooling, how many of us think about using different time slots to commute to work, how many of our corporates, offer work from home cause they understand than commuting to work actually kills the employee productivity. Hey, I just woke up, we are in India, where driving a car to the toilet is also considered as a status symbol!!!!.
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