2009
9
(This is a re-post from my Facebook Notes)
I am parked next to a busy road.
There is an absolutely walkable patch after the road ends. Which can be called a footpath. Although, years of ‘no one walking’ has left some overgrown shrubs and bushes on it.
And then there is this long row of cars parked right next to the footpath.
After that is a 3 lane wide road (thats minus the parking) where vehicles normally cruise at break-neck speeds as thats one of the few breathers you get on this road to overtake the slow-going tractors, autos etc.
Bangalore Traffic.. much like this actually
We are again deviating, sorry for that.. the Note is about the people who walk this side of the road. It has been my observation (I have been observing for past 7 months) that most people prefer to walk between the parked vehicles and right into the traffic.
The logic is unknown. Is the safety of a perfectly safe footpath undesirable? (which is shielded from the traffic by the parked cars). Or is it more like “Need that Buzz” and prove a point by walking right into an oncoming 3 ton truck at 60 Kmph.
On further observation one may note that the educated (so called) lot prefer the traffic side while the under educated prefer the footpath. Groups of laborers walking actually take the footpath while the IT crowd masquerading with their Collar IDs like the close brush with death.
I have pointed to a few fellows of the alternative available. Was not really taken that well.
Bottomline, I guess if you desire to be a roadkill, no amount of good sense can prevent that.
PS. The IT crowd part is just an observation, I am not necessarily generalizing on a whole bunch of IT people here. Not to mention, I do fall in a similar category.