The Monsoons have arrived...
... and they haven't forgotten what they did last year. It has been raining all weekend. And all of Sunday night. Which means when I start off for office on Monday morning, the roads will be much different from what I left on Friday.
... and there'll be enough dumb drivers on the roads who think that the car in front of them has slowed down not because of the fresh potholes, but perhaps because they just have nothing better to do. So these dumb drivers will continue at the same speed, spoil their suspensions and come close to causing accidents.
... and these incredible new road-dividers that have sprung up during the summer will cause more water logging in hitherto safer places. The way they've designed these dividers (walls, even), you'd think the whole purpose was to foster rain-water harvesting in the first place.
... and managers will arrive later than usual at work, meaning everyone else has to stay at work till later than usual.
... but all this rain makes the grass green even outside our company's manicured campus. Having said that it always has been greener over here.
... and in this climate, even our canteen's kaandaa bhajjis taste good. Although they actually aren't any good at all. And they still fall into the UFO category (unidentified fried objects).
... and I just remembered that I had used this UFO gag back in school when I'd written an essay on "A Rainy Day" or some such thing. I'd written in it that because of the rain, I bunked school and went climbing a nearby hillock with my friends instead.
... and bunking and going hillocking is suddenly a very good idea indeed. I would've bunked work and done the same. But the hillock is now covered with apartment complexes.
... and driving in the rain on an empty highway listening to Metallica is still a good experience, definitely one that beats finding a path between these buildings.
But once I complete my drive, I end up finding that contrary to the hillock, there's too many empty spaces here. Spaces that were filled up previously and have now been replaced by grass that may seem greener to those on the outside. To us here, even this monsoon can't make this grass any green...
... and there'll be enough dumb drivers on the roads who think that the car in front of them has slowed down not because of the fresh potholes, but perhaps because they just have nothing better to do. So these dumb drivers will continue at the same speed, spoil their suspensions and come close to causing accidents.
... and these incredible new road-dividers that have sprung up during the summer will cause more water logging in hitherto safer places. The way they've designed these dividers (walls, even), you'd think the whole purpose was to foster rain-water harvesting in the first place.
... and managers will arrive later than usual at work, meaning everyone else has to stay at work till later than usual.
... but all this rain makes the grass green even outside our company's manicured campus. Having said that it always has been greener over here.
... and in this climate, even our canteen's kaandaa bhajjis taste good. Although they actually aren't any good at all. And they still fall into the UFO category (unidentified fried objects).
... and I just remembered that I had used this UFO gag back in school when I'd written an essay on "A Rainy Day" or some such thing. I'd written in it that because of the rain, I bunked school and went climbing a nearby hillock with my friends instead.
... and bunking and going hillocking is suddenly a very good idea indeed. I would've bunked work and done the same. But the hillock is now covered with apartment complexes.
... and driving in the rain on an empty highway listening to Metallica is still a good experience, definitely one that beats finding a path between these buildings.
But once I complete my drive, I end up finding that contrary to the hillock, there's too many empty spaces here. Spaces that were filled up previously and have now been replaced by grass that may seem greener to those on the outside. To us here, even this monsoon can't make this grass any green...
posted by Kaustubh R. Mone at 7:53 PM
2 Comments:
you forgot to mention those who would try to swim in those water-logged road-pools!
kya baat hai sir..u seem to be too fascinated by the grass bein green or not:-P
Rohit K singh
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