The Unofficial Race
Just the other day, when i was riding to my office on my bike, I had this thought "We see so many strangers daily. Do we ever see a same stranger again in this vast city? and even if we see them can we recognise the same face again?"
Riding at 70 kmph on the Command Hospital road (i love this road), i reached Domlur and there was this heavy traffic jam (asusual...) Another biker took a detour into a small "galli". Most of the other two wheelers followed him so did i. In that chain of two wheelers i was behind a girl in her scooty. She didnt allow me to overtake her in that galli. After we passed the galli to reach the Indiranagar main road, I overtook her, and got a stare from her while doing so. She tried a lot to overtake me, but invain.
Ahead I stopped at the signal. That girl, she didnt bothered to stop and jumped the signal... Till now it was ok, but when she crossed the signal and she adjusted the mirror to see where i was? that triggered the ire in me.
For the next three days I got the answer for my questions... I met(not literally) the same girl with that scooty at almost the same spot for 3 consecutive days. And huv did i recognise that it was the same girl????? I guess it was her uniform, she was in the same attire, so no big deal recognising her.
But things were different this time though, I was ahead of her all the time and ensured that she cant jump the traffic signal and cant overtake me.
Just the other day, when i was riding to my office on my bike, I had this thought "We see so many strangers daily. Do we ever see a same stranger again in this vast city? and even if we see them can we recognise the same face again?"
Riding at 70 kmph on the Command Hospital road (i love this road), i reached Domlur and there was this heavy traffic jam (asusual...) Another biker took a detour into a small "galli". Most of the other two wheelers followed him so did i. In that chain of two wheelers i was behind a girl in her scooty. She didnt allow me to overtake her in that galli. After we passed the galli to reach the Indiranagar main road, I overtook her, and got a stare from her while doing so. She tried a lot to overtake me, but invain.
Ahead I stopped at the signal. That girl, she didnt bothered to stop and jumped the signal... Till now it was ok, but when she crossed the signal and she adjusted the mirror to see where i was? that triggered the ire in me.
For the next three days I got the answer for my questions... I met(not literally) the same girl with that scooty at almost the same spot for 3 consecutive days. And huv did i recognise that it was the same girl????? I guess it was her uniform, she was in the same attire, so no big deal recognising her.
But things were different this time though, I was ahead of her all the time and ensured that she cant jump the traffic signal and cant overtake me.
posted by Nandu at 12:57 am
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