Rains are here! finally!
And with them they bring joy, greenery, potholes, happy kids and my favorite corn on the cob!
Today i tasted the first one of the season. Even if that meant getting down a good 2 kilometers before my house and walking for rest of the distance.
I got one with loads of lemon on it and very soon only the cob was left. I started walking towards home only to realize how few dustbins we have in this country. I looked for every suitable place to get rid of the remnants of the snack but it was still with me after a god ten minutes.
While i was walking back i thought of a mathematical theory. Here goes "the time for which one holds a garbage item,before disposing it on the road ,for lack of dustbin, is a directly proportional to the desire to be a good citizen,the cleanliness of the neighborhood and how many people are watching . And just before this value started to seem like infinity (that means when i was just about to throw it on the roadside), i came across this upmarket sweet shop and disposed my not-so-precious companion of twenty minutes in its trendy bin.
The shop owner glared at me as if i had let lose a wild cat in an antique furniture shop.
The thing is that his stare made me feel more at fault than i would have felt had i thrown in on the roadside. Something somewhere went extremely wrong in this country.
Tunga village v/s ISB
15 years ago
4 comments:
I love throwing my rubbish in other peoples trash can's. (and i do generate a lot of it!)
Very nice of you to not 'accidentally' drop the cob.
:P
totally go with what u say....but do u realise, this "sweet shop" guy will empty it on the same road, u so avoided :P
Cynical.....i know.....but a little realistic too :D
P.S: I did this "corn on the cob" thingy in lonavala last week and spent a whole half hour looking for a dustbin :D
@Rohan- accidents happen
@nitin- Half hour is a lot of patience ya! proud of u! i assume after half an hr u threw it on the roadside.
no.....i found a dustbun...overflowing ofcourse....i placed the cob on top of the huge heap....looked beautiful...sigh :)
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