Bangalore traffic teaches you patience

Hmmm...Well talk about Bangalore to Bangloreans(or they themselves will bring it up-favourite topic) you will hear incessant frets about how horrible the traffic is, how long one takes to cross a road(trust me even crossing a road also takes time waiting for the vehicles to clear off and sometimes you suddenly find yourself stranded in the centre of the road with vehicles passing in front of you and behind you almost grazing you as if you are a part of the unexisting divider-human dividers i guess), how longingly you wait for the signal to turn green(meanwhile revisiting your kindergarten age by relearning the numbers backwards..120 119...111 secs more-SUCK!!!) and finding yourself again stopping at the same damned red signal(it looks like you will never move beyond this crossing while you can learn the numbers you have missed earlier-backwards ofcourse...). Very true. The red signal has a unfair advantage over the green signal and thanks to innumerable vehicles before you who take thier own sweet time to kick start their snoozing vehicles before budging inch by inch. In this melee you see some over enthusiastic drivers trying to overtake you at the snail speeds(Schumis of the slow racing) sometimes giving an anatomical beauty spot to your vehicle(a horrible scratch or a cute dimple sorry bump-priety zinta istyle) on any side of your car(depending on which side the rogue vehicle is). Sometimes they move on being(or pretending to be more precise)unmindful to or ignorant/brilliantly innnocent(good actors) about what mark they have left behind. I guess these people have taken the maxim "Leave your trail or mark behind" too seriously. Sometimes few people(caught red-handedly) flash foolish smiles and lift thier hands in I-couldnt-help-it-boss-That-sucker-beside-me-was-coming-too-close-to-me kinda look and move ahead unrepentful. Well i have also given some helpless looks to the drivers of few vehicles which i almost grazed. But you dont have time to get down and pick up a fight and you should suffer in silence(giving an angry scornful look is all you can do) and divert your mind to the CD that is playing or to the non stop chatter and songs on the FM. Ignorance is bliss. These FM dudes are semi-helpful folks, in the sense they give you prior information that so and so road is jammed and you will be screwed up if you take that way. Sometimes it proves useless because either you are already on that road or there is no other way because of the one-ways. "Where there is a road there is a one-way". And these auto wallas. Given the slightest gap or a mere sense of it, they figure out ingenious ways to squeeze into it. While the bikers are as usual trying to sneak in thorough whatever crevices they find in the jam. These guys-autowallahs and bikers are adept at giving your car a beauty streak. And in turn they give you angry looks as to why-cant-you-give-me-some-space-i-am-going-to-take-my-ias-exam-and-its-my-last-chance kinda expression. Somehow the traffic moves on and people start honking as they wade through the traffic as if i-want-to-win-the-race-to-get-past-the-signal YOU-LAZY-BUM-MOVE-ASIDE. This is a crude snapshot of the absolute reality. Have patience Machcha!!! My patience threshold has increased a lot and hope yours too will be increased once you ride on bangalore roads. Dont loose your cool and increase your BP. Increase your patience instead and resign yourself to being held up in a jam while you listen to the FM chatter or your favourite song or even catch a nap and wake up at the sound of a blaring horn...POOOYYYYYYY POM POYYYYY:-)