Day out on a bundh!
well,it's hard work being a doctor-you have to go to the hospital even on bharath bundh! i decided to use the public transport today as our bmtc buses were supposed to ply despite the bundh;i also thought it would be safer to travel in a bus than a two wheeler today. i had so much confidence that i even bought a daily pass when i got a bus in the morning-call it over confidence.....
it was actually very pleasing to see our bangalore roads so empty and the weather was pretty cool too today; i reached the hospital 10 minutes late as i had not got a bus quickly enough....
in the hospital itself,i think there was 50% attendance!
a cool morning started turning into an irritating afternoon-i had noticed that only one bus had gone through the road in front of our hospital since morning.... when it was time to leave, i saw that the auto drivers were having a field day.... i trudged back to the great k.r.market bus stand to find one police van parked there and nothing else!
i finally had to fall prey to one of the auto drivers and had to shell out 150 bucks to reach home. i had to bear his slow driving while he was looking for more potential customers-asking "ಎಲ್ಲಿಗೆ ಹೋಗಬೇಕೆ ಸಾರ್?" to everyone he saw on the road! to top it all,the auto driver was pissed that he had to come such a long way and i was paying him only double the meter charge!
talk about bharath bundh and the losses incurred by the various sectors today,but the auto-wallahs sure made some quick buck today....
it was actually very pleasing to see our bangalore roads so empty and the weather was pretty cool too today; i reached the hospital 10 minutes late as i had not got a bus quickly enough....
in the hospital itself,i think there was 50% attendance!
a cool morning started turning into an irritating afternoon-i had noticed that only one bus had gone through the road in front of our hospital since morning.... when it was time to leave, i saw that the auto drivers were having a field day.... i trudged back to the great k.r.market bus stand to find one police van parked there and nothing else!
i finally had to fall prey to one of the auto drivers and had to shell out 150 bucks to reach home. i had to bear his slow driving while he was looking for more potential customers-asking "ಎಲ್ಲಿಗೆ ಹೋಗಬೇಕೆ ಸಾರ್?" to everyone he saw on the road! to top it all,the auto driver was pissed that he had to come such a long way and i was paying him only double the meter charge!
talk about bharath bundh and the losses incurred by the various sectors today,but the auto-wallahs sure made some quick buck today....
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