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Other-city-ites can never be anything but that. Irrespective of how much they say that they hate Bombay for its people/crowd/fast life/ blah blah…, they always (and it shows) secretly want to be like us, Bombayites.
I happened to meet 2 such non-Bombayites. These 2 women from Dilli made me ponder…Here are the things that non-Bombayites will do for which I just plainly abhor them.
They sure will wish to use the services of our city’s lifeline ‘local’ trains. However, when they will enter a compartment they will exclaim, “Oh My God! It is so crowded! It is so dirty! It is so hot! It is so this and it is so that!” Then they will relentlessly talk about how they ‘just drive to wherever they wish to go in Delhi’ in their posh new car(read bought, by taking a loan, to show off even though they could not afford it)(or read as the new car that came as a ‘gift’ from the daughter-in-law’s parents in son’s wedding.)
They will wear cherry red tee shirt with black formal trousers(they call them pants), carry a crimson red hold-all(they call it bag) with multiple chains on it, wear green Osho chappals(they call them bathroom slippers), and will also carry an orange jhola. Oh wait – I almost forgot – constant listening of ‘music’ will happen on the pink Ipod ‘look-a-like’ music player.
They will continuously cry and whine about the ‘Noise’ in our city, about the various people who sing/sell in the trains and what not. Of course whilst they are at it, they assure that they speak sensitively. I will even go to the extent of saying that they whisper in each other’s ears (one woman will lean towards the other woman’s ear and speak into the ear while covering her own mouth and the other woman’s ear by her hand.) And by whisper I mean that if they talk to each other, in the aforementioned manner, sitting at one side of the window of a compartment; you, who are sitting at the other side of the window, ‘cannot’ hear them at all. This is because they are ‘oh so not loud’ and they do not, in any manner, contribute to the aforementioned ‘Noise’!!!!
Mother daughter duo will incessantly exchange gossips/ happenings in the acquaintances’/ relatives’ lives with so much gusto and enthusiasm; it will make you wonder whether it really is so much fun to gossip.
They will carry 6 bags amongst 2 women( well, I do not have an issue with that) and they will put all these huge luggage bags on display on the seats(the issue part comes here)
Then, when other lady travelers will want to come and sit on the seats meant for sitting, and not meant for keeping bags; they will flick and go ‘tch tch’ and act that other lady travelers are causing them immense trouble when they(other lady travelers) insist that they(the 2 women) keep the luggage down under the seats!
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