...... Autorickshaws!!!!
I would give anything to have them here. The most convenient mode of transport I have even travelled in. We Bombayites take the rickshaws for granted so much, we never had to think twice about someone picking us up if we didn't have a car like here. There always used to be 3 (if not more) parked right outside the complex
Looking at all the security systems that the cars flaunt here, sometimes I wonder if security issue ever occurs to the rickshaw wallas. Their 'gaadi' is always open! And they flaunt their stereo systems in those open cars! Mannnnnnnn ! Its been ages since I heard the Jhankar beats for 'Tu cheez badi hai mast mast!'
In this case it always used to be Beats speak louder than words ! Then there were some distinguished ones that made an attempt of creating a cramped up disc within itself complete with flouroscent blinking lights! :)
I miss all such dhin-chak rickshaws which we used to ridicule about back in Mumbai
And finally the inevitable fight with the rickshawalla over the meter reading and the charge, which finally ended with "Kya bhai sahab riska-walle ko fasata hai?"
posted by SOO-BEER @ 5:53 PM
6 Comments:
lol!! good post re..
Another unique autorick feature was the handcrank start..i wonder if ne automobiles here have that.. chinar?
welcome to the blogworld! & keep them comming :)
i don't think any autos have that hand crank. thats unique to a three seater.
subir, keep them coming dude. its a lot of fun to vent your anger, frustration, happiness, laziness, boredom on the blogosphere
sometimes i would wait until a 'disco-rickshaw' came by.. just for the good music ;)
And sometimes you would have them with weird-ass lighting inside them. I felt like a hooker everytime I sat in those!
i remember...every time outside borivli station, we used to peek inside all the rickshas to see if it has a deck (the so called music system) and sometimes... after starting, the riksha-wallah used to say, saab deck kharab hain.
aaah... KLPD :)
Has anybody come across a particular
"rickshaw-wala" in and around bandra-bandstand...for heaven' sake he spoke to me in good English and it was the day (the first and last ) I heard MLTR in a rickshaw!!!
It happens only in India!
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