Monday 12 March 2012

FAKE-O-METER

         It was the day  my father and i were leaving to Banglore,when we hired an auto rickshaw to the railway station. With massive luggage on board and an RAC seat awaiting us, we had started off on time to avoid our usual hurry-up scenario! We were driven in and out of the lanes as my mind  silently kept wandering through different possibilities of sharing one seat all night long. We apparently had no choice owing to the fact that it was the so called "perfect-time-for-all-the-weddings" and  ours certainly was a last minute plan. That's when surprises began to unravel. For starters, our auto began to slow down, some unknown issue the auto guy said. We were now travelling at half the previous speed but were still hoping to cope up.

 
           "Arey Arey", i heard the autowala say and we were now not in a moving state anymore! The auto had now come to a perfect still even before we had come half the way! The autowala had some serious theories about why the auto could have landed in this troubling situation all of a sudden which he tried explaining for a couple of minutes and then, called upon another auto rickshaw for us. He had his share of explaining done to the new guy and transferred our luggage doing us a favor. We had to pay him some negotiable amount for the short trip,following which we started off in our new auto. The new guy was old and fragile.He picked up a conversation with my father asking him how much we paid the previous guy and then began laughing out of  nowhere! Now obviously, both of us were surprised !

           Then the autowala enlightened us on how we were just tricked . I was shocked to hear that the previous auto had no problem at all. As a matter of fact, it was all part of the perfectly crafted drama where autowalas without valid license papers agree to take you to the destination of your choice, though far away and then start off their cocky drama finally ending up making you feel like they have actually done you a favor, getting you into a new auto in a situation where you might be forced to find one all by yourself . So,obviously they get paid for an auto which in case of the truth revealed scenario. we would never hire in the first place.
                   
           We had nothing to say as we were totally taken aback by the fact that we, being local Hyderabadi people had just been tricked! Needless to imagine our plight if we were in a hurry and could not find another auto immediately! I was in a dilemma wondering if i should curse the autowalas for what the previous one had just done to us or appreciate them for how one of the same race on the flip side, had come up with the truth. Trust me! gone are the days when the autowalas taking you on a one kilometer ride for an actual distance of a few meters for better fares was the only trick played by them! Now is the time for renewed ones. So, watch out because you never know, you could just land up in this "reality show" some day!

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