I had the pleasure of using an autorickshaw today. You see, when you have a ride of your own, you kind of forget how autorickshaw don't have a seatbelt and no one sitting inside it wears a helmet.
I may have died and resurrected a few times in the span of 20 minute ride I undertook.
Hell hath no fury like an angry Amdavadi ricksha-walo. Also, no one is in more rush than an Amdavadi rickshaw-walo. I am almost sure we were in the air for a few seconds because of the jet speed the auto was almost flying at. Totally naming all future autos as rickocopters.
You also do not want to come in way of a Ricky Martin who has chosen to ride on that road that moment. If you are, you get waved at. I noticed the kaka (as all auto drivers are fondly called, or bhai, maybe) wave randomly at people. At first I thought he knew the pretty ladies in the cars he was waving at. Or the weird dude in silver Honda City who waved at me. Then I realised he was waving at them as if to say "dekh ke chalo" because autorickshaws in Ahmedabad do not have brakes. They stop at the will of the driver, and the driver never wishes for such events.
No one thinks that an auto rickshaw is a technological wonder. It works on three wheels. THREE. How do you even balance things on uneven things like that? No one questioned the design of the three wheeled wonder? How?
I may have died and resurrected a few times in the span of 20 minute ride I undertook.
Hell hath no fury like an angry Amdavadi ricksha-walo. Also, no one is in more rush than an Amdavadi rickshaw-walo. I am almost sure we were in the air for a few seconds because of the jet speed the auto was almost flying at. Totally naming all future autos as rickocopters.
You also do not want to come in way of a Ricky Martin who has chosen to ride on that road that moment. If you are, you get waved at. I noticed the kaka (as all auto drivers are fondly called, or bhai, maybe) wave randomly at people. At first I thought he knew the pretty ladies in the cars he was waving at. Or the weird dude in silver Honda City who waved at me. Then I realised he was waving at them as if to say "dekh ke chalo" because autorickshaws in Ahmedabad do not have brakes. They stop at the will of the driver, and the driver never wishes for such events.
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Having said that, have you seen/heard this Kishore Kumar song where he is extremely excaaaaaaaite as being an Amdavadi Rickshawalo?
Asrani is Amdavadi Rickshawalo and he is showing around the city. Interestingly, most of these iconic place are still around. Some of these places have witnessed history being created and watching such videos make me immensely proud.
Anyway, coming back to the Amdavadi Rickshawalas, some of them might be responsible for making some of the people sitting on the fence become believers. I almost knocked on the Pearly Gates and came back.
Friends, Romans, Countrymen, thank you for lending me your eyes. (because lending ears is too mainstream, also you guys read this, didn't hear it, so.)
Aap jaa sakte hai, namaste.
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