Monday, February 18, 2008

Watch out for this bus, Trivandrum-ites!

Six months of continuous 'residentship' in Trivandrum and being married to a Trivandrum resident, qualifies me as a budding Trivandrum-ite (I hope). [My bank thinks otherwise, though — it took quite a bit of cajoling to open account with them.]

With that assurance lemme move forward...

This beautiful city has a fondness for things from the past. I learnt today, buses are, perhaps, one amongst those.

Hubby dear n I were on the way home after a — burrrrrrrrrrrrp — heavy lunch, happy n content with the world, except for minor problems like unpaid loans, financial quandary, my dismal job hunt and so on.

We had the ancient ruins of a KSRTC bus chug-chugging along in front us. For the uninitiated, most KSRTC buses operating on the roads are prehistoric relics that ought to be right at the bottom of a junk pile that belongs to some bygone era. They are rickety, long past their expiry dates and beg to be put to sleep, failing which, they take their revenge by knocking down pedestrians, give up on their drivers or by riding straight into a fellow vehicle.

We overtook the bus and were just past the rear when the bus goes Pooooof! A huge blast of pitch black smoke from it's dented mangled side and we were thrown into darkness in just a second. Hubby dear slammed on the brakes 'cos we can't see a thing!

This bus, I bet, is one of the chief contributors to air pollution in this part of the country! And our car's one shade darker than it was in the morning.

10 comments:

Vadapoche said...

MTC is not very different though, I have become a fan of their Volvo buses with a cap wearing captian and a hand held ticket dispenser holding conductors.

Anonymous said...

you should see my bike... it was one helluva smoke producer

My Verbal Diarrhoea said...

@jollyroger: Am soooo sorrry for this very late reply... it's been a tough 2 months...
Volvo buses are p'haps going to just remain a dream for KSRTC... hehe! hand-held ticket dispensers have been a boon to conductors here too... Thank god for small mercies!

@ Chris: Pssst! Didnt ur bike run away with someone?

Anonymous said...

yea usha... some dude took her away

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