by The Goldfish Bowl

Created on: September 14, 2009   Last Updated: September 16, 2009

Long lines of cars and we waiting in them.Sometimes in a traffic jam there is endless waiting.What can one do during endless waiting? Just do not allow the thoughts to wait in line, yes just let them wander.Let them go to China if they want.I thought of cell phones and cars;these possessions are signs/objects signifying modernity and progress.They are possessed globally especially in urban areas of otherwise developing nations.Such as this city of mine which is one.Now everyone wants to possess these classy articles by fair means or foul.Hence you hear so much about car theft and cell phone snatching here in the cities.Then of course certain entrepreneurs jump in to provide and make money believing in the "maxim"less into more,gives most,and if this is repeated frequently then it becomes maximum.That is you can get really cheap phone sets which are made in China, so they reach the poor man' s pocket and out comes the poor man' s money which is a comfortably affordable amount and its a deal!It is said that if a "Chinese" cell phone works it will last a life time;but if immediately it does not, chuck it out and buy another.This sort of gamble the poor people understand and I daresay even enjoy!

I was in my car,when I had to stop philosophising about the 'Chinese maxims', because I saw something unusual.It was a more than middle -aged woman in the driver' s seat.She looked like a fish gaping and talking nineteen to the dozen, alternatingly.All the windows were closed.That is why she looked more like a fish.Sometimes she looked very angry,sometimes lamenting, sometimes as if beseeching God with eyes rolled up.Seeing all this core performance a very sinister looking man, impatiently plastered his huge frame and face to the window, and tried to watch her keenly.All the time he seemed to be searching something.Then a fearsome thought came to me, maybe he was after her cell phone?Both her hands were free, and she was using them very freely and expressively.Sometimes an index finger would shake like a hi frequency tuning fork, very admonishingly, sometimes both fists clenched threateningly at some enemy facing her perched on top of her steering wheel, I suppose, that close it appeared.Her hair covered her ears so no cell phone could be seen, but her head was not tilted at an angle so how could she be talking on a cell phone!Any hidden wires, or earphones, just as I thought of this, it seemed that terrible hulk also thought the same, and started peering more at imaginary

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