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Chaztin

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^^ If only there were rickshaws here :wallbash:

 

The way they drive I keep wishing "if only there weren't rickshaws here". :| Same with the majority of people on two wheelers. And tourist taxi drivers. And the majority of Swift owners :P

 

Not to mention the extortionist rates these autorickshaw guys charge. Rates go up each time the fuel prices are hiked, but then they don't come down when the rates go down. Again when there's a hike, they hike prices too from the new level upwards. :doh:

 

 

A few days ago some douche on a bike rammed into the left side of my Baleno pretty hard, then took one look and sped away while I was busy spewing abuse at him. Bent the left side panel a bit in front of the left forward door. Now each time that door is open, the panel is bent further and I suspect there's an Air conditioning vent/pipe running under which has been damaged too, cos cooling is all of a sudden non-existent. :ranting::rant: Used a screw driver to pry the panel a bit outward to reduce the chances of any further damage.

 

Can't give the car to the service people and get it fixed either because our Chevy Cruze is going for servicing tomorrow and dad needs this car temporarily. :(

 

And in the morning while I was crossing a particular signal on the main GST road near Chromepet (green signal was mine and I was going at 80kmph) this bastard on a bike comes from nowhere in a direction totally perpendicular to mine (obviously it would have been a red signal for him) looking in the direction I was heading in (not even looking at me). Managed to brake hard, somehow hit the brakes hard enough to come to a standstill within barely 30 feet without swerving totally out of control or toppling the car, tires screeching and leaving a mark on the road for quite some distance. Hard enough that my bag which was in the back seat flew forward and fell on the handbrake. Thank god I was wearing the seatbelt :lol: . This motherf**ker didn't realize he'd nearly died until he reached the other side of the road and wondered "Where was that tire - screeching coming from". He didn't even look at me, just sped away looking back at the policeman (from the signal) who was shouting at him interested more in whether the policeman was writing down his registration number. thankless SOB. Some guys like this deserve to be run over by a lorry. Closest I've come to killing anyone on the road (though once we've done 2 whole spins on the way to pondicherry thanks to one old dude, but then it was Dad doing the driving)

 

Then while heading back, there was one huge traffic jam that stalled traffic for the whole day all over chennai. Thanks to some hostel people protesting in the middle of some major roads. Got stuck in a 3 hour jam (made worse by work on the upcoming Chennai Metro) in the hot sun on the way back from college at 12.30 with this damn AC not working too. Just my luck. :fogug:

 

pretty bad month overall. :(

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Awww.. :console:

 

Guess what , While I was driving to work, at a traffic signal today.. This rickshawallah looked at me and sang, "Do u wanna partner, love me love me say"

 

Lolz.. It sure cant get worse than this for u.. :bigyellowgrin:

this proves rickshawallas have bad taste in everything :)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

j/k :P

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Awww.. :console:

 

Guess what , While I was driving to work, at a traffic signal today.. This rickshawallah looked at me and sang, "Do u wanna partner, love me love me say"

 

Lolz.. It sure cant get worse than this for u.. :bigyellowgrin:

 

 

this proves rickshawallas have bad taste in everything :)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

j/k :P

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Awww.. :console:

 

Guess what , While I was driving to work, at a traffic signal today.. This rickshawallah looked at me and sang, "Do u wanna partner, love me love me say"

 

Lolz.. It sure cant get worse than this for u.. :bigyellowgrin:

 

:giggle:

 

You think that's bad? Rickshaw guys can get far worse.

 

While I was in my 11th standard I took an auto home from school (I studied in DAV Gopalpuram and that's quite some distance away from my place). This guy started off with how the nearby Church park School girls were hot and how some girl and her bf had gotten very *comfy* in his auto once. Then he went on to detail his XXX exploits with his neighbourhood aunties :fear:

 

Oh man, he finally ended it with "Idhukkellam unakku pala chance varum pa, nee ellaam periya engineer ille doctor aayi vaazhkaiye enjoy pannalaam" (You'll get many such chances, you enjoy life after becoming a big engineer or doctor). :lol:

 

Best auto story ever and I couldn't tell it to anyone except close friends :(

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@MT

 

wtf thats awesome of them to give you a spare car,i dont thinnk there is such thing in india atleast in kerala

 

 

They do give you a spare car in some cases here... for instance even Chevy gave us a courtesy car when the Cruze went in for service for more than 3 days last time around.

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:lol: How'd you manage that?

 

Me, KOX and Arun360 were having a gaming night at Argruid's place.

 

Some where around 4AM, Arun realised we have run out of ciggies so he and Anush went out looking for a pan-shop.

 

In the meantime, Murli was telling me about how easy it is for a casual gamer to set-up and play on a Wii. So I asked him to plug in the Wii and start playing some games while these guys were out. Murli went ahead, plugged in the Wii and flicked the switch. A muted boom and the whole house went down in darkness, just as Anush and Arun walked in.

 

Turns out, Anush has an American Wii and we were supposed to plug it into the transformer first. In plugging it directly into the socket, we managed to blow out the fuse of his house as well as ended up frying his power brick. :(

 

As for my fav auto story, it happened in Chennai. A week old in the city, me and a friend got into an auto to get to Spencer's plaza. Halfway through the journey, the auto guy enquired if we know Hindi to which we said yes. So he asked us to translate the word "Bayyam" from Tamil to Hindi. Obviously we were clueless about Tamil. So he let go of the handle-bar and proceeded to mime a guy shooting some one and explosions and people getting hysterical, and all of this while driviing through the busy intersections.

 

To our misfirtune, we still couldn't grasp what he wanted to say so he decided to up the ante and swerved dangerously close to an incoming car, turned around at the very last moment, turned around, smiled at us and repeated again, "Bayyam, bayyam". After that we had the word for him translated in no time!

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