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What comes to your mind when you think of a bus journey? No, not the ones where long roads (with their hair-pin bends and curves ahead placards) unravel a scenic, misty view of hill station. I'm talking about our daily mode of commute - local city buses. Besides the crowd, nauseating odours arising from your co-passengers to damage your olfactory nerves and some unruly conductors, bus journey is quite fun.
Many funny banterings happen around... and from one of those banters only, I learnt that our Pernthalaivar Kamarajar (our most humble ex-CM and the Kingmaker who introduced midday meal scheme to lure rural children to school - it's not the Dravidian parties' scheme) had a Kethu dosham and that's why he was a celibate!! Two men were talking in the opposite row of seat and I couldn't control my grin.
Another day, a good-looking gal was shouting at her BF over mobile thus: "Unna love pannadhuku Airtel la evanayavdhu love pannirukalam; daily ethanai message, calls varudhu ange irundhu"! (I shuda loved some guy from Airtel as I get most of the smss & calls from them only). I'm sure the BF must have immediately laughed & made amends :).
And the usual cinema kisu kisu (gossips), m-i-ls compaining about their d-i-l's thalayanai manthiram & the changed behavior of their beloved sons in women's row; new models of mobile phones, udhavakkarai sons (i've noticed most of the dads are not at all proud of their sons), new film/audio releases, friends getting mokkais from their respective figures..... in men's row of seats. And both genders unanimously pull down conductor's leg sometimes :)
PS: And, in a bus ourney you can be sympathetic to pregnant ladies or to those shouldering toddlers and lose your smartphones/wallets, etc - ust like me & some of my friends did :-(
What comes to your mind when you think of a bus journey? No, not the ones where long roads (with their hair-pin bends and curves ahead placards) unravel a scenic, misty view of hill station. I'm talking about our daily mode of commute - local city buses. Besides the crowd, nauseating odours arising from your co-passengers to damage your olfactory nerves and some unruly conductors, bus journey is quite fun.
Many funny banterings happen around... and from one of those banters only, I learnt that our Pernthalaivar Kamarajar (our most humble ex-CM and the Kingmaker who introduced midday meal scheme to lure rural children to school - it's not the Dravidian parties' scheme) had a Kethu dosham and that's why he was a celibate!! Two men were talking in the opposite row of seat and I couldn't control my grin.
Another day, a good-looking gal was shouting at her BF over mobile thus: "Unna love pannadhuku Airtel la evanayavdhu love pannirukalam; daily ethanai message, calls varudhu ange irundhu"! (I shuda loved some guy from Airtel as I get most of the smss & calls from them only). I'm sure the BF must have immediately laughed & made amends :).
And the usual cinema kisu kisu (gossips), m-i-ls compaining about their d-i-l's thalayanai manthiram & the changed behavior of their beloved sons in women's row; new models of mobile phones, udhavakkarai sons (i've noticed most of the dads are not at all proud of their sons), new film/audio releases, friends getting mokkais from their respective figures..... in men's row of seats. And both genders unanimously pull down conductor's leg sometimes :)
PS: And, in a bus ourney you can be sympathetic to pregnant ladies or to those shouldering toddlers and lose your smartphones/wallets, etc - ust like me & some of my friends did :-(
Good one. Add some more instances. Pickpocketing has become common coin during bus travel. And using weird and cunning means are at peak.
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