There was a time when driving through rains felt delightful.
But with rivers replacing roads in Gurgaon, the delightful has been replaced with the dreadful.
With the rainwater, muck and mud-covered potholes there’s a certain amount of suspense, quite like an Indian mystery thriller, will your car survive the bump? While crossing over the scale model of the mighty Himalayas, referred to as speed brakers by the government, you are worried will your car survive the hump.
Here’s what you could do. Curse and abuse the politicians, knowing fully well that it was you who did not move your bum to the voting booth that day when it mattered. Because the roads don’t matter to them. They got their vote. And they don’t bother about you. Why should they? Did you bother about yourself?
Then here’s the other thing you could do. Hail a sharing cab. Get that book out of the bag that you have been wanting to finish reading. Don’t worry, even the snail could beat the traffic today, so it wouldn’t be difficult for you read in a moving car. Those at home would have finished at least half a webseries in the time it takes you to them. A word of caution – clean up your bladders before you get on the ride. We want the rains to pour, not you.
And what are the chances that you meet a certain someone who are also reading the same Indian mystery thriller? There, you just found your tribe!
To top it all, FM is playing the song – ‘Rim jhim gire sawan, sulag sulag jaye man.’
Two strangers, one jam, one great song, one story. And a ride worth remembering.
Kahani Hai Na Amazing? Bookmark it in your mind – Padhna Zaroor iHai.
