Today i was shocked to see that the price for a thing as small as a vada had gone up to 14 rupees. It got me thinking as to who this seems to happen in Bangalore. It seems to me that the hoteliers in Bangalore seem to be taking advantage of the chalta hai attitude of the ordinary Bangalorean. Had this happened in any other state, for eg Kerala then I’m sure this wouldn’t have been allowed. There would’ve been a mass scale protest which would’ve ultimately led the prices being lowered. The same thing seems to have been happening with the autos in Bangalore.
At first it would take some time to take to recover from the shock to see an auto driver brazenly quoting a price which he deems fit for travel to a particular location. Now it seems to have been engrained into the blood stream of the ordinary Bangalorean to reason with the auto driver, without battling an eyelid. Cause it seems second nature to us now.
If we were a species under study from a higher power, then I’m sure we would be declared as mutants, because our ability to adapt to external stimuli such as unwarranted price rise, greedy auto drivers seems almost godlike.
We are Bangaloreans, but its high time we bring back the bang into the Bangalorean.
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About the autos… Bang on… but i still find the rare decent automan who takes just the meter and no fuss when i pay up.. Others have tampered super meters… and quote higher prices on top of it.
On the reasoning part… do you really reasn unless its important? like say i am stuck in the middle of nowhere (uttarahalli) and need a ride… i might reason to the location as long as its near civilization. On the other hand you have places like express, mg road where there are a multitude of autos… one quotes high… walk away probably greedy auto guy = tampered meter as well.
well its nice to reason when you have the power at least in mg road. That’s what i do. I walk away if he quotes even a rupee higher. Helps the auto guy remember that if he quotes higher the next time to some other customer there is a possibility he might walk away.
oh and kerala would have burned down the place eventually… the chaya kadda near my house in palakkad got — eh… rebuilt 5 times.. in 5 years… its no longer there anymore…
At least it a unanimous decision to burn down the chaya kadda. But i doubt it because chaya kada’s are the only ones that are spared during the bandh, riots, emergency etc, because we malls love our chaya and parip vada!!!!