Traffic Jams..Boring?? ..NAH!!!

Friday i was stuck in this traffic jam..easily the mother of all traffic jams... a 6 km ride took me just over two hours..and to boot it it was raining all the time.. So i am on the road locked in between a million vehicles..and its raining..bad state of affairs?.. maybe not..Just a matter of perception maybe..
I did not have anything urgent that needed to be atended to..so just decided to enjoy myself..When you try this the jam actually gets interesting..you get to see all sorts of people..there were these i-HAVE-to-be-home-right-now types honking away to glory.. this resulted in raising the tempers of other motorists..and the hurry-burry types just had to stay put after a few choice abuses were hurled their way..
Then there were the generous ones.. who would let the other hurry-burry ones pass.. and then the ones who were on the phone with god-knows-who.. just yakking away like it was home..
Then there were the types like me with a song on their lips and just enjoying everything..Imagine i even had a couple of nice conversations with total strangers.. we discussed how the roads have got choked.. and just general stuff about weather..I even got the chance to hold a conversation with an auto driver..without either of us trying to out-scream each other!!!
To boot this..at one of the junctions..a kinetic pulls up next to me..i could make out that it was a girl..and then she honks and calls out to me.. surprise..surprise..its an old friend of mine..the last i had seen her was when at her marriage!!
We spent the next three or so Kms just talking..we were still in the mother-of-all-traffic-jams!!
Was pretty nice to catch up after so long..and in these surroundings..and i guess this would be the last time i was going to see her..she would be going away to the US with her hubby for good..and in a couple of days that too.. We could not say our good byes though..Somehow lost out on each other at the end of the jam..

So..who says Traffic jams have to be boring..huh??

I'm on the road again....

Yesterday morning when i reached home.. i could not stop grinning for quite some time..I had a lot of fun working the previous night..and was done by around 6:0 in the morning.. which is pretty early considering my normal working hours... So there i was all bright and early..and wasn't really in the mood to go home so early.. so what do i do? I take a loong route home..
So to reach indiranagar from Richmond circle..which is about 6 km and a 10 min ride in the early morning traffic..I went all the way to Jayanagar..then went on to Koramangala..and then took the ring road back home...
You would think that the roads are so empty and good opportunity to set land speed records..but that was definitely not the case.. the roads were infested with all the morning joggers/walkers/oglers..etc..and most of them were on the road rather than the footpath.. their way of getting back at the motorists i guess!!! And one of the corners i nearly went into one of them enthusiastic guys..that should count as a good deed for me..his day could only look up from here!!!
The good thing was that the morning health-concious-janta also included a lot of bangalore's PYT's..that was a nice way to start the day..
Sadly i could not devote a lot of time to pursuing any ..and before you get any ideas..any of the other roads in the vicinity i mean..and simply went on to the ring road..here somehow the joggers/walkers/oglers stuck to the footpaths...so enough clear space to just rip.. pretty ironical that i was planning to do a lazy ride home..but seeing a clear no-obstancle road is too much tempation..