Last Sunday I went to take the second proctored mock test at Reliance web in Forum. The test was scheduled to start at 10 in the morning, so I went a bit early only to find the staff over there arranging the chairs and cleaning stuffs and all, so I decided to come out at the entrance and do some bird watching.But it seems the birds in bangalore follow US timings and the only eye delight I could had was the billboards of some phoren underwear brands.Not knowing how to kill time, I went near the second hand books cart at the roadside.The bookwallah seeing me browsing randomly sprang up from I dont know where and started giving as focussed an attention to me as one gives to a video of Jennifer Lopez with full of pelvic thrusts.
Barely having hundred bucks in my wallet and that too meant for my bike's sudden enhanced thirst these days and the credit card meaning to the bookwallah nothing more than what a saree means to Mallika Sherawat ,any business was as unlikely to result as that between Mamata Banerjee and Ratan Tata.So I thought of fooling the bookwallah by asking "bhaiyya aapke paas Rakhi Sawant ka autobiography hai kya?".But mere dost,looks are deceptive and not everyone is a George Bush,the bookwallah gave me the deadliest looks he had reserved for somebody found pilfering on a day when he had scored as little as Sourav Ganguly .I thought it would be better to pull myself from there as soon as possible. "Thhek hai bhaiyya,mai next week aaonga,please ek copy bacha ke rakhna" and I vanished faster than the RGV ki Aag did from the theatres.
Barely having hundred bucks in my wallet and that too meant for my bike's sudden enhanced thirst these days and the credit card meaning to the bookwallah nothing more than what a saree means to Mallika Sherawat ,any business was as unlikely to result as that between Mamata Banerjee and Ratan Tata.So I thought of fooling the bookwallah by asking "bhaiyya aapke paas Rakhi Sawant ka autobiography hai kya?".But mere dost,looks are deceptive and not everyone is a George Bush,the bookwallah gave me the deadliest looks he had reserved for somebody found pilfering on a day when he had scored as little as Sourav Ganguly .I thought it would be better to pull myself from there as soon as possible. "Thhek hai bhaiyya,mai next week aaonga,please ek copy bacha ke rakhna" and I vanished faster than the RGV ki Aag did from the theatres.
Positioning myself at a safe distance incase any book is hurled at me from the bookwallah,I saw a bunch of school kids in white uniforms,laughing and giggling their way to their school.That reminded me of the days when I use to bunk the sports day by faking all bimaris possible to read the latest series of Super Commando Dhruv and Grand Master Robo.The bookwallah can vouch that my taste reagrding books havent changed much.
The kids menawhile signalled one passing auto to stop.Banglore kids are rich, I thought because in my times I remember being stuffed in autos as strong as Julia Roberts wrist,with 20 other kids as if there has been a natural catastrophy and childern needed to be saved first.When the auto stopped, one of the kids accosted the autowallah, "Uncle Linkin Park jayenge?"
The aotowallah was as confused as Rabri Devi being asked about the theory of relativity.The autowallah fearing that there would be no returning passengers from a place called Linkin Park,left.The same thing occured with three more autowallahs who had heard about the Linkin Park no more than they have heard about the US foreign Policy for Timbaktoo.I was certainly having a wonderful time seeing at the hieghtened taste of these kids nowadays, no wonder the television industry has to come up with something really good to match up their refined taste for fun and humor.
Meanwhile a fifth autowallah came by.""Uncle Linkin Park jayenge?" He probably thought that Linkin Park must be somewhere near LalBagh and said "haan jayenge" .I was really wondering what the kids would do now.But what they did was even beyond my expectation.One of the kids came up to the autowallah and politely replied " Toh jao na !!!" and all the kids ran away.I could not see the expression on the autowallah's face as I was getting late for the test and so darted for the web world.Really the Gen X has now been taken over by Gen Y or so to say iGen.
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