"GROUNDING LESSONS" - WATCH OUT!

 

Its Friday evening, I am driving back home from work ...there is this usual traffic stuff happening around Mumbai...and I am flustered (possibly due to hunger, there is always physiology & biochemistry underlying much of human emotions!)

I turn into the street that eventually, two turns later, leads to my apartment. 

Its hard to miss noticing new shops over-running the footpaths...and consequently pedestrians walking on the street...OH MAN!!🙄 (the signature expletive of a frustrated Indian tax-payer!)

I am thinking to myself...” man, someone's got to report these shops to the city administration”.

Saturday goes flying by as it always does, and I wake up to a flat tyre,

it's a Sunday!!

A call to the usual mechanic gets a very confident reassurance that the problem can be fixed in an hour...
”I am away today, but I shall depute someone who works Sundays, don’t worry!”

Half an hour later I get a call from an unknown number....

It's the puncture guy.

Everything is fixed in another half an hour.

When I pay him his dues, out of courtesy I ask about where he is from, and the location of his workshop etc.

Yes, you guessed right…

His shop is one of the many encroaching those footpaths 🤓

My self-righteousness is grounded.

And the next time I pass that street with “new shops over-running the footpaths”,
I am a bit mindful.

OH MAN!