Tuesday, September 22, 2009

Jittery ride


Yesterday Chrys and I got into a cab at Kemps Corner. The driver was freaky to say the least. He kept fidgeting and adjusting his hair every ten seconds. To top it he was driving at top speed and weaving through the traffic. Chrys asked him to slow down, but that just made him accelerate some more. The two of us hung on to dear life. That was when I noticed a hairy creepy crawly on that guy's collar. This was a huge yellow and orange coloured caterpillar. It was really hairy too. It would keep popping in and out of this guy's collar and seemed to be in no hurry to get anywhere. I don't know if that was causing the freaky behaviour in the guy. I was reminded of that character in "The Jitterbug Perfume", a man who was always surrounded by bees who formed a sort of halo over his head. But I think this cab driver was crazier. He might have been high on some drug and we didn't want to freak him out more by pointing out the caterpillar. It was probably harmless. We stopped at a signal and there were some kids there with a begging bowl... this driver screamed at them "Hatt!" even though they were nowhere near his vehicle. Then a poor guy was trying to cross the road and this driver screamed some obscenities at him and that fellow almost fainted.
Finally when we were getting off, I took a look at the caterpillar... it was lifting it's head and looking straight at me as if to say, don't worry... I'll be fine... this guy doesn't bother me!
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The dialogue mix from Quick Gun Murugan is an absolute riot.

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Why do some newly married women dress up like street walkers? ... brightly coloured bra straps peeping out of spaghetti tops, loud make up, big chunky jewellery... you already got your guy, give us poor souls a break!


6 comments:

Flying Machine said...

Maybe the newly married women want your guy too. Mull over it.

Stop blaming the taxi drivers. I am sure you have some secret powers you are unaware of that turn them into freaks. How come you always find these specimens? I am telling you it is you.

Flying Machine said...

Give Quick Gun Murugan some rest or Mango Dolly will be after your blood.

The Wanderer said...

OMG :)))) The one about the newly married women...bang on target ! Not only do they look loud, their behaviour is loud too. They are practically joined at the hip to dear hubby !

A Chrysanthemum by any other name... said...

He was like an old Calvin on sugar bombs

Seema Smile said...

@B - You may be right.. it IS me. I have been getting these weird dreams where I am the Rakshas tormentor of cab driver and they are all trembling and pleading for their lives while I'm tossing them off a cliff into the fire.

@Wanderer - The hubbies are no good either, they think that now that they are married, they have the license to leach at other women while they have their palms strategically placed at their wife's bottom!

@Chrys - Sugar Bombs! Maybe... or maybe the cab fellows are all weirdos from another planet who have crash landed on earth and can't get back home.

workhard said...

Im surprised how the driver did not feel the caterpillar.. ughhhh..

And yeah newly married women are loud in their dress sense, their jewellery and all their clothes are glittery...

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