Friday, March 24, 2006

It kinda worries me, y'kno?


this is about buses. the public buses. ladies-matrum section on the left-hand side and free seating on the right-hand side. i dont give a damn if there is or isn't a gents-matrum section. thats not the issue.
it's more about the share-auto where five guys cramp and squeeze against each other on that ass-sore of a wooden plank while the stern-looking middle-aged woman hogs the entire seat. if they dont put up with her fat aura she'll simply look down the road towards an auto in which they will. the poor rik-guy's gotta make a living, hasn't he? im not concerned that the rikky didn't stand up for five very accommodative customers. he's not to blame.
this is about the way i felt when the 80+ years old woman in the thronged 29c gave me a sharp look cos when she dozed off on her seat (the one i was being thrust against) her head had nowhere else to fall but my fuckin crotch. well, you know how the fuckin buses are! the goddamn sweaty, suffocating, clautrophobic masses crushing you from all directions. and of all the people, this old sack (way worn and past her menopause to be worrying about whatever it is she was worrying about) has to give me such treatment.
hold on a sec. "of all the people, this old sack..", i say? so if it were the pretty young wench i would deserve the treatment i got? but it was'nt my fault at all. ok, agreed. the bus was crowded and the woman fell asleep. ok, granted. but yet, notice the words as they naturally surface.
this is about the tension in the air when a guy and a girl have to talk and they're not/not yet in love with each other. i cant say about when they are.
this is also about any group of people that are made to sit in a circle. the x-chromes end up on one side and the y-chromes on the other..... the y-chromes......yyyyyyyyy????

9 Comments:

At 8:38 AM , Blogger Krishna Kumar. S said...

1st commentanty... here... and perhaps the first one to comment on the preceding post in the succeeding post. If video can kill radio star, then shit can kill toilets even as quick gun muru-guns are faster than pun guns. gosh, xcuse moi!

 
At 10:32 AM , Blogger karthik said...

hmmm... all i got out of that was that toilet jokes hit u no matter how weak they are... they say jokes on topics thatv been repressed are easiest pull off...
thanks for this kinda encouragement, keikay... everyone els who'v had the courage to come here'v ony felt that i dont deserve more than the polite acknlowledgment-smiles they gimme when i meet em...

 
At 1:22 AM , Blogger Ridhi said...

hahahaha!!! damn funny man! n i do agree with u ok... reservation for women??#$^ i have my own problems with that... one mite argue that the things u described are the fall backs of a rule genuinely meant' to benefit not the weaker sex... but women who are at a disadvantaged position rite now... so ppl misuse it... which rule/law isn't??? it's human nature.... i guess dunno what else to blame it on... whateva i'm rambling now...
but anyways... a good read... hehe entertaining

 
At 7:24 AM , Blogger karthik said...

human nature, u can perhaps overcome... but it worries me that it might just be the pattern the universe is made on... in which case i must give in to the instinct.

 
At 12:28 AM , Blogger Abhinav said...

dude - brilliant stuff, man... i laughed my ass off. i empathise, tho i havent quite had an 80 yr old woman fall on my crotch... i think these experiences are unique to some people. but truly, your writing style is very very cool.

and don't just learn names like brecht, read his stuff! you won't regret it, i promise.

 
At 11:20 PM , Blogger karthik said...

thanx man... that gives me confidence -for the better or for the worse. i guess this whole blog thingy aint all that bad, huh?

 
At 3:40 AM , Blogger Abhinav said...

no way, i wish i'd been into it, or it existed, when i was in school, its such a nice way of sharpening your writing skills...

liked your earlier story too, the one on your other blog, tho its a mystery to me why you have a to have a whole diff blog for it.
anyways keep posting... i'm expecting something really good up next.

ok i hope that wasn't wierdly reminiscent of sumitra akka.

 
At 11:46 PM , Blogger karthik said...

hehehe.... yea sumi.... she sure was something... owe her a lot. the prufrock essay i posted earlier was something i was so proud of, cos noone's ever made more use of the thesaurus in word more than i did on that essay... she was always on this trip about finding the right word that expresses precisely what u mean to say...

 
At 6:15 AM , Blogger tanjanali said...

i tried and i tried and i tried but the damn comment box would't open. so... i dedicated a post to you! check it out.
p.s. wats the purpose of this word verification? i asked vinayak this too.

 

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