Since I was
a kid, monsoons never ceased to amaze me. It is by far, the most beautiful
season of the year. The smell of rains, the sound of raindrops and the rainbows
are the most amazing sights! They mesmerize me to no end. As a kid, when we
went to school, the bus being delayed was an excuse for us to splash water on
friends and play in the mud pool. Being dirty never mattered back then. Those
innocent giggles and rain drenched faces! Oh, I so miss them! College meant
rainy seasons spent in canteen and gossip with friends! And now, with office, a
walk on the Bangalore Road or seeing the monsoon from my 3rd floor
building ,it’s a picturesque scene which
is not worth missing! Rains make me go all nature loving and mushy!
But
every happy thing changes somewhere when you are all grown up and mature. Let
me, for instance add bullets to my issues during monsoons:
- I JUST hate when commuting is a problem during
monsoons. Like where do the auto rickshaws suddenly disappear? They used
to swarm around and go all honk honk honk, but now, when you are all
swollen eyed, running late for office and the skies have decided to empty
all of its day’s quota, you don’t find one bloody single rickshawala!!!
And all you can do is AAaaaarrghhhh!!!
- Next, the great BANGALORE ROADS. Is it just my
imagination or the pot holes do multiply by infinite every year? We deal
with all the road construction taking place round the year, with the hope
of a better monsoon; but the “new” roads cannot even bear the wrath of the
first rain of the season and we are blessed with knee-deep water logging!
- Also, the streets are so clean (irony
intended) that the water logging brings with itself all sorts of
amazing sights like plastic floating, drainage issues, dirt and yuck
coming out from everywhere on roads!!! And to say that we live in an ultra
modern ‘metro’
- Buses. How can rain and bus be not part of the
same sentence? Delays, derails and cancellations are all given as free
surprises to the ‘all-drenched out’, ‘already running late’ and ‘in the
nick of time’ working people!
- What’s more, you are not even at peace inside
the house. The litter, the flies, the dampness all add to a housemaker’s
woes. Suddenly there is dearth of brightness in the house. The washed
clothes refuse to dry themselves. The whole process of
washing-drying-ironing gets disturbed and there are pile ons, the cleaning
process multifolds and much much more!
