Via this route!

Inception: Whitefield (5.30 pm)

Destination    : RR Nagar (7pm to 7.30 pm, 8pm being the curfew)

•           Whitefield to Lake Road via silk board

•           Silk board to BTM via Axa building

•           BTM to Banashankari via Bangalore Central

•           Lake Road to Banashankari via JP Nagar

•           Lake Road Shopper’s stop signal via gelato

    

 During the journey time, things to do:

•           Root cause analysis – Fish bone diagram… You’ll figure out the intricacies involved in reaching our destination by the time the clock strikes 7.  -

1)         U turns- avoid

2)         Silk board junction a complete NO-NO after 6.20 pm

3)         Lake Road, especially during Fridays avoid!(Blame it on the malls)

4)         Matter of 100 mts, make the Petrol Bunk destination employees walk! (The petrol bunk employee complains, but obviously majority wins! Whining falls on deaf ears! She retreats)

•           Twenty questions- Play till you run out of personalities to think of, in the end keep your driver’s name as a personality you want others to guess ,otherwise repeat the same personality twice(when this trick was  done , initially its hard to figure out as we would expect  the personality wouldn’t repeat…But playing this thrice every week , you’ll will  get used to all the traps laid!)

•           Meddle with your rubicks cube- The one which I can never find the solution for…top done, first layer done… in the the verge of completing the second layer, back to square one. Have to start all over again. Small attention span… thinking  of other constructive alternative things to do.

•           Argue about which route to be taken, this never dies from the ‘things to do list’  Its been over 9  months since I’ve been taking the cab,  say 9months *20working days  which will be 180 days( according to my friend if I was pregnant when I joined the company, I would have had  a baby by now!! That’s how it was calculated!), as I was saying 180 days, there were 180 different routes which we used to argue over, each of us wanted to take a different route hoping there would be less traffic via that route.Mr X would start…according to the research and statistics, today being a Monday, there would be less traffic at this junction , as per my intuition I did envision traffic via this route, so lets take the other …  Finally everyone would round it off with the driver’s decision.

•           Conversations

1)         Mr Major: Dint you get anything to eat today for the journey?

Miss Fresher: No, I didn’t have time today, I was actually working!

Mr Major: I don’t understand what work you freshers would have… By the time the clock strikes 5, Your out of your seat.. You still would have half an hour until the cab leaves! I don’t find you anywhere…and you say you have work! Next time while coming get something to eat!

Miss Fresher: Initially tries to defend herself and shouts “I DID HAVE WORK”

Gives up, just nods her head and next time makes it a point to get something for the cab to munch on so that she doesn’t again  get into a commotion with Mr. Major.

2)         Miss X: Hey I’ll tell you a joke

Miss Fresher: (Excited) Yes yes! I’m so bored!

Miss X: There is a huge tree, and it is completely surrounded by water , there is a pigeon.. a lonely pigeon, which is on a verge of laying eggs. But when it comes to a point of time where the eggs are gonna be layed...it takes off…. Now the question is… The egg still remains safe, and it wont fall into the water, nor does it hit the ground… Its safe!! How is it possible??

Miss Fresher:  thinks ,thinking , thought …. Comes out with all possible nonsense answers….

a)         The egg is boiled because of sweltering heat!

b)         The  egg is tied to a paratchute so lands safe!

c)         This is so not a joke! I give up!

                  Miss X: Are you sure? Okay here’s the answer!

                               ‘The pigeon is in its boxers!’

                 

3)         Miss X to Mister X: Your NOKIA bus is right behind our cab!

Mister X: I know ( blush blush)

Miss Fresher: What’s with the NOKIA cab??

Miss X: Mister X had some girl admiring him  from that cab at the traffic signals… Mister X would retort to the girl’s glances…Mister X went to US and since that day , the girl too vanished, Mister X returned , but the girl never returned. Since that day Mister X is looking forward for all the Nokia Buses , His eyes searches for that girl every time that cab passes by.

4) Miss clowny pants- You know what happened today….

Miss fresher- Yes I do! I saw you coming to office at 10 in the morning, and trying to segregate your accessories and getting back home before doing the actually 9 hours of work at office!

Miss clowny pants- pffffff……!

  Destination reached: 6.50pm (everyone in a roll of excitement!)

  Destination reached :7 pm( On time, not bad…could have made it earlier if we had come via that route)

  Destination reached: 7.30pm( Damn to Monday evenings, Its always the same! Damn the driver! Damn the via route!)

  Destination reached :8pm( Too tired to even argue about the causes of late arrival, Whatever! I at least reached home!)

   The following day, the hackneyed images of the myriad  routes!! It’s a Routine unperturbed.