On 2/9/08, shiv sastry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Saturday 09 Feb 2008 12:31 am, Ramjee Swaminathan wrote: > > On 2/8/08, Vinayak Hegde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Great! What a pleasant surprise. :-) I didn't expect to find so many reasonably happy users of the public bus systems, including Shiv's daughter. Of course, I agree in toto that, there is a lot of scope for improvement, and so I thought I will post again! 8-) A few things though - by and large, only women seem to like the bus and men prefer to miss them or may be men don't want to talk about these bussy matters at all. In fact, the absence of a su-do-macho 'let's go for a hard drive' or a melancholic 'I'll take you for a ride' or or sad-o-macho 'cling to me like shrinkwrap while I mow down the neighbourhood' kinda possibilities, is a major disadvantage for the buses as opposed to, say a car or bikes that come with plasticky finishes and atrocious names (such as Assassinator, ContractKiller, Disemboweler, SpleenVenter, KamikazeBomber, DogBarkerSirener, HooterHowler, HeartAttacker, Whateverer...) and elevated posteriors perhaps urging the young studbulls to mount them. Of course I must understand that we live in the times of vicarious experiences filtered through intermediated and simulated sensory preceptions, augmented by surreal virtual hilarity. I must therefore umount from this sermonious mount, sadly. :-) This reminds me of what one of my (male, do I even need to mention this) acquaintances told me sometime back: I dont like the artless grills of the Bangalore buses so how, HOW, hOw can *I* get into*them*. I looked at his grill. It required some flossing and he, some flogging. 'nuff said. __r. PS: Sorry about the lot of typos and grammos(!) in my earlier offending post - but I got so carried away by the idea of the public bus system that, words simply failed me.
