Friday, July 22, 2011

Jungle laws of the urban wild

Surely, this is not about the green jungle.
The title aptly describes the morning traffic scene one day on my way to office.

At a traffic signal, watching from the autoriskshaw, I saw many four wheelers trying to hurriedly drive past the amber signal light.

While all others were waiting patiently, there was this car that screeched to a halt and the driver got out jumping like on a hot tin roof , walking to the car a few feet away.
She impatiently asked the man behind the wheel why he drove rashly along the previous kilometer all the time getting in the way of her car.
The tone of the voices of both parties involved was anything but friendly.
The road rage got higher with abuses that were totally uncalled for.
To say, the supposed to be working class "gentleman" and the "gentle lady" were in no way showing any signs of courtesy or minimal humane behaviour.

All of us - the other travellers had nothing to say or do about calming either one of the fighting bulls.
There was only one thing that could stop these "civil"-ians and it was the green light of the traffic signal. It caused many of the bystanders to their own business and force the neatly dressed nitwits to go their way--though still screaming abuses.

It was quite a scene and a wild one at that...