First thing that struck me on reaching the Chennai station... "Does NO one understand anything other than Tamil here?" Found a rickshaw fellow who was taking a 100 bucks to drop me to my place, thought it was too high. Tried to bargain with him. This is what it went like:
Me: {location}
Rickshaw-waala: 100 {gibberish}
Me: mmm... 100 too high...
Rickshaw-waala: {blah blah}
Me: 80
Rickshaw-waala: 80 ille... {something about petrol and stuff}
Me: Naa {start walking}
Rickshaw-waala: Saar... 95 rupiz {still more of the lingo}
Me:
This was the first time I had ever bargained in a language I don't understand. This was NOT the first time I got fleeced by a rickshaw waala. Turned out I could have got to the Guesthouse in 50 bucks.
The Guest House caretaker is a Nepali. Thank God for small mercies...
4 comments:
Welcome to the world of Blogging!
Good first post and i hope there are many more to come.
Keep it up.
Cheers,
Anand
Paddy,
Amazing wit and good humour timing..Keep more of it coming!!!
Kudos
Chits
Hey...nice post and sorry for presuming in my earlier comment (on another of ur articles) that u are in calcutta..? But Chennai..! Well, that makes u a true 'Mard'..! Still in TCS or some other..?
keep me posted...
Still in TCS, still in Kolkata :) Was in Chennai for a month...
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