It happened again …

Sometime I wonder about the habits people caught with. It happened to me again in the near past. A perfect start of the day the weather was awesome and made me spare more sleep time then usual and guess what I missed my bus to office. Knowing I can find plenty of BMTC buses for the 14 Kms journey to my work place waited in a very relaxed mood at a bus stop. After seeing all those over crowded buses I started counting the time, still getting late to my workplace. Finally I got into a bus which has some space to seat and got down at the last stop which is 3 Kms away from my work place.

I was already an hour late and not in mode to wait further, searched around if I could find some auto and here it goes the whole story …

Me : Auto, ITPL chal raheho ?

1^st Autowala : Sir, double meter otherwise I will not go ….. wooooooooooooossss …

2^nd Autowala : Sir, double meter otherwise I will not go ….. wooooooooooooossss …

3rd Autowala : Sir, 50/- rupees otherwise I will not go ….. wooooooooooooossss …

4^th Autowala: Sir, 10/- rupees extra dena hoga (after negotiating)… wooosssssssss…….

For all of them my answer was nope, meter pe chalo, extra kyon ??

I started wondering what’s wrong with these guys it’s hardly far away and they don’t feel ashamed of asking money well above one can imagine. As far as I know the meter auto fetches only 15/- rupees. I looked around myself just to check whether am I looking like a foreigner to them !!! I know this is a common problem faced by many if you don’t know the local language, and surprisingly I found my office tag on my shirt which I normally don’t put while using public transport. My wild guess, these guys are getting smarter and they know from whom they can suck extra money.

And there I clicked with one Idea, removed the tag and called the 5^th Autowala and you guessed it right he puts the meter down without asking or demanding anything extra and finally reached office.