Keep Safe Distance!

I seem to be finding myself stuck in traffic jams quite often these days. May be it’s to do with me traversing the city more lately, for various purposes – mundane /useful/interesting, thereby increasing the probability of my being stuck in such jams,  or that my timing on the road coincides with the peak hour for traffic or I simply have very bad ‘traffic jam karma’!

Since I am left to my own resources to keep myself entertained during such times, I listen to music, catch up with ‘listening’ to a book or simply stare at the ‘boot-iyan’ of the vehicles ahead of me; the last one seems to have caught my fancy, and not just because of the song. It’s interesting to see the stickers that adorn the rear window of vehicles; I guess in some way, it is an extension of the personality of the owner of the vehicle:

the loving husband – one sticker with his wife’s name;

the doting parent – names of the child(ren)

the complete family man – as many stickers as there are members

the lawyer – the black/white sticker bearing the sketch of the lawyer’s collar

the doctor – the red/white ‘plus’ sign (though, I believe that that is the sign of the Red Cross)

the God fearing – pictures/names of God(s)

the ‘Mama’s boy’- a sticker invoking the mother’s blessings

the ‘Shravan Kumar’- invokes blessings of both parents

the one guilty of many offsprings – we two, ours one (it used to be ‘hum do, humare do)

the preacher – a thought for the road

the protective parent – baby on board /Achtung baby!

the foreign educated – the name of the university

the proud employee/employer/shareholder – the name of the company

the polite one – sound horn, ok, please

the cautious one – keep safe distance

The last one amuses me the most, for reasons I shall leave to the imagination of the reader of this post!