I'm mean, like really... shut up Anjali.
So this morning I drive to buy diwali sweets and as I enter
the roundabout I can see another car do the same. In my mind I have entered it
before the other car and I'm sure he thought the same with the only difference
being that he lost it! Like seriously. I could see him shake his fist and mouth
the words MC...
That was it… I saw and felt the words and lost it too!
I began laughing
uncontrollably, the fit of giggles was so overwhelming that I had to double
park by the kerb 'cos I was shaking so badly and the poor guy was apoplectic as
he could obviously see me doubled up. So he slows down to hurl more abuse and
bursts a few blood vessels while gesticulating wildly and by now I'm tearing up
with all the mirth. If he could get off the car and cause physical damage, I'm
pretty sure he would have but there were a few cars lined up behind him and he
had to reluctantly drive ahead.
Once the laughter died down though I started feeling
remorseful... I probably ruined his weekend and he would probably do the same
for someone else.
Which brings me to the why? I mean why do I get cheap
thrills at being petty and mean. Most often I'm the one sermonising about kindness
and empathy and decency towards fellow human beings. I cannot handle meanness
and it bothers me endlessly when I see victimisation and then I go and do this.
Sigh!
Also brings some déjà vu, Anjali and me are serial offenders.
There’s a pattern and a method to our madness, we’re quite famous for making
faces at unsuspecting people behind the wheel and riling them up and egging
them on to something stupid and the thrill! Oh man…. I remember one drive in
particular where Anjali played zombie with dilated eyes and a deadpan
expression on her face which was stuck to the window and I would slow down and
she would stare into every passing vehicle like that. After about eight people
almost drove off the road in shock we gave up counting!!!
TJ has a name for it. She says we have the keeda. So the
next time you see Anjali and me on the road, remember… keeda kaun!
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