Friday, August 13, 2010

Games I play on Bangalore roads

Bangalore roads are the best test for patience. To cut down boredom, to have some fun they are some petty things I like doing. Anirudh is the best company to travel with and most of these games we devised as a joint effort. Read on:

1. Deriding your boss: The rules of the game are simple, keep exposing the stupidity of your boss before the other player. The winner of the game is the guy who has the most stupidest boss.

2. Overtake the finger: This is the most recent addition to our games. We have devised it just today. Show your middle to the vehicle which is trying to overtake you. The person will be shocked and taken aback and would stop overtaking. If someone still has the guts to overtake... kudos to him, he has something serious to attend.

3. Insult Infy: I believe this game can be played only in a major South Indian city, as these are the places where one can find too much about Infosys. Bangalore is one such place, which is filled with Infy buses, Infy buildings, Infy employees, Infy news. So this has become our peev. Keep scolding, insulting and deriding it and get the sadistic pleasure. So you can comment on Infy buses how they ply on the road, the number of infy employees in the bus stand and the shape of the building of Infy. The best comment was that on the conference building overlooking the Hosur road in Electronics city. Anirudh commented on its saying "It looks like a MRI scan machine" referring to the weird circular shape at the center of the structure.

4. Identify the Chutiya: Once upon a time there was a Chutiya clan, the members of which are the most idiotic of the human race. Unfortunately they got mixed up in today's population. So the mission is to identify and name these members of the clan. They have weird characterstics and the names are according to their weirdness/acts. So if someone puts a left indicator and turns right he is a "Left-Right Chutiye". If he skips a signal he is "Lal Bathi Chutiya". If some attempts to get on a running bus he is a "Running Chutiya". The winner of this game is identified by his innovative names he suggests.

5. Analyse her: The rule of the game is to spot a gal and analyse her as quickly as you can. The winner is the guy who identifies and analyses most number of gals. Remember the other person always has the right to question your analysis, so you need to have enough reasoning/justification for that.

6. Chase: Remember the main requirement of this game is that the road should be pretty empty. Because there is a very good chance that you might get lost or get stuck and delayed unexpectedly by playing this game. So the best time to play this game in Bangalore is late in nights/early mornings or during day time play it in your locality. Unlike the previous games, this is a group event and requires cooperation between all the passengers in the car. According to the game one of you will pick a random person from the street and you would start following her/him till the destination is reached or all the passengers decide to call it day. So you take left when he/she takes and you rev when he/she does. This is a fun game and if played quite well, might also scare the person whom you are chasing. That increases the pleasure. This is also the best way to know about the different routes and explore new places which one has never explored before. But since there are very few occassions in Bangalore when there is no traffic even I got to play this very occasionally. Once we stopped at Mc Dies drive-thru and there was this lady at the back who was honking repeatedly. I got so irritated that I thought I will scare her and started following her. Thanks to the co-passengers, Nivi, Meenu and Manoj, we followed her for more than 5kms and scared the hell out of her before we gave up. In another such occassion, I started following a "phirangi" lady, I followed her in my car, while she was walking and finally we reached her home. She was so hell scared that as soon as she reached her place, she ran in and closed the door with a "Thud". :P

See Bangalore roads can drive people crazy, now you dont believe that?

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