Wednesday, February 9, 2011

Common Sense Uncommon

I generally refrain from making generalizations about people, especially in print, seriously. However, last night really tested my patience when it came to acceptance of ridiculousness.
On the way back from my aunt's house, my husband and I drove up to an intersection we pass everytime on this route. However, this time we noticed there was more traffic than usual. Not only was there a lot of traffic, it was not moving AT ALL! The other side of traffic was moving rather smoothly but we had crossed the divider and couldn't take a U turn (with all the traffic back up). After sitting at one spot for about ten minutes, we peeped out the window to see that there was a groom with his party of 40 people moving at ant's speed toward a party hall on the other side of the road causing this traffic back up. Seriously, what the...
Without having any consideration for the road, traffic, the fact that it was a Tuesday night or that someone out of the 300 cars backed up might have an emergency situation to attend to, this ridiculous party was taking its gala of a time to get to their venue.
It showed utter lack of common and civic sense and we couldn't do anything but wait in the same spot for 45 minutes. Of course, right after they gave us enough room to move an inch a minute, they actually turned over to the other side of traffic and started backing the other side up. After a lot of maneuvering and cutting people off, we finally got out of this mess, and could see the ramp coming onto the other side of the road getting backed up.
That's when I realized that because of the inconsideration and lack of social responsibility of some citizens, the possibility of India ever becoming a developed country in the near future is slim to none. The fact that people lack the ability to realize the consequences of their actions in such a basic situation is unbelievable. I guess people need a course titled Common Sense and Sound Judgement 101.

1 comment:

Unknown said...

True That nigsss !!!