Irritation happens.
Well, there are more than 10,105 things that can irritate you literally like hell, and I just wanted to list out a few :
1. When you are bursting out angry at something, and your cell phone suddenly beeps with a message, thinking it to be something important you open the message that reads :: “hot sunny leone pics, go to this website to download” I mean what is the problem with these people, I am NOT interested in the your bikini models or pics of sunny leone (who should rather be named sunny loin !)
2. When you silently wait at the metro station for your friend, reading a book, and a fat policeman comes up to you saying you are being watched by CCTV (So what, I can see that camera right above my head, don’t I have a right to wait ?) and that you can read your book somewhere else when only a foot away, a couple has been ogling at each other for the past whole hour and you wonder why can’t he ask them to leave or wait his “CCTV” didn’t capture it.
3. When auto rickshaws or rickshaw walas look at your face first before they mention the fare rate as if the fare rate is plastered on your face and varies for every different person, a blast of hindi slang is what sets them right.
4. When you are waiting for red light to turn green amidst hundreds of cars around you, and one by one each one opens his car door to spit out his paan-peek or disgusting mucus. Yes, why not, Indian roads are indeed free for all, to throw anything and everything at them, be it kurkure packets, or paper or your own saliva, its our trademark style of leaving our mark in the world you see.
5. When you sit in a class, and the teacher has no idea of what she is teaching. When your questions are met with “I’ll answer you in next class” and that next class never comes, the semester ends and teacher goes away too.
6. When you see those new-in-the-city-gals trying too hard to be “mod”. Heavy lipstick, off shoulder almost-transparent tops and braless hanging boobs, overlarge earrings and even smaller shorts. I am sure it wouldn’t hurt them if they covered themselves to certain decency. Take a break, I suggest. I am not a fashion critique nor an orthodox moral police but its a sincere suggestion for your own good.
7. When your best friend stops listening to you no matter how hard you try to explain to her in different ways and tones hoping she’ll understand, but you end up realizing you are beating your head against a solid impenetrable wall.
8. When you finally think you still have years ahead to be someone in life, and the news flashes with 17-year old boy who entered the Olympics or 13 year old who joins the med school, or 11 year old kids doing perfect splits and pirouettes and contemporary, or kids who got their books published or the young artist who had an exhibition yesterday, and here I was thinking I still had time to be someone. (What was I doing in these past 20 years, I wonder)
9. When you see those beaming smiles of people who look like 30 on pink sheets which are advertising their coaching institute and you realize, that they are actually those who got some rank somewhere who are supposedly your age. And the way your parents start giving second thoughts on what your future is going to be like.
10. When you are sitting in an examination hall, during summer, and heat exasperates your wits, you see the examiner drinking cold drink in front of you, and in another second she takes out cold waterlemon pieces, as though she’s come on a summer picnic, while you struggle more with the formulae in your head and heat that makes your brain work slower.
11. Sitting in metro, comfortably enough, till you realize, someone pushing in to sit in the 2cm gap they just saw between you and the person seated next you. Yes, we Indians use space very effectively, not to forget buses are one place where men no matter how old or young tried hard to push against you (reasons for which I believe castration for such men is justified duly.)
12. When you get stuck up at wedding party of some dad’s distant colleague, and all you’ve got to do is put up fake smiles to everyone you meet, be it aunties who are ready to bitch about you the moment you turn your back, or drunk uncles who can’t differentiate whether you are dad’s daughter or wife.
13. When you are hanging out with a friend (or mistakenly think so) because that friend is more busy doing facebook, than talking to you and you seriously think you should be facebooking her to get out of it.
14. When you are sitting in a movie hall, and some idiot's phone rings who might have forgotten put his phone on silent, but you realize he's an even bigger idiot, who starts talking loudly on the phone about some shit as if he owns the cinema hall. Indian decency such as this is most admirable, ain't it ? Yea, we so love to hear a croaking voice in the middle of a suspense scene.
15. When you realize that you end up idling a lot of your time when you could’ve been doing something constructive, and that’s how I’ve just realized I must stop my list here.
See ya’ folks,
I now depart,
Hoping I do not encounter “things-that-irritate-me-most” …
Wish you a similar “irritation-free” day !
;)
:P
