Its winter in Bangalore and days, particularly mornings, are pretty cold and cloudy. That makes it more difficult for me to get up early and reach office on time I used to be a regular on the Volvo that passes through my place between 7 and 7:10 but lately I have been hopping into any city bus that I come across (cost cutting you see!). Today was one such day.

Early mornings usually means less traffic and less crowded buses. Marathahalli is one of the major bus stops en route to my office, which is always overcrowded and kind of congested. Happened to witness an incident as my bus was reaching the main bus stop today that prompted me to blog. There was this 20 something lady, sipping a tender coconut that she had just purchased from a roadside seller(you should ask my buddy Varun about roadside tender coconuts – he has had a pretty filthy experience ), hurrying to board the bus that I was in. Just before hopping into the bus, she very carelessly threw the coconut on the ground, spilling whatever water was remaining in it – part of it fell over the auto driver who was standing there !! The usual way for them to react is to abuse the offender in kannada – this guy somehow took it in a lighter way by just passing a sarcastic smile Garbage disposal in the city, for whatever reasons, is already pathetic. On umpteen occasions I have seen people throwing them on the roadside because there are no bins around, making the whole place to stink! To add to this there are such ignorant people like this young lady. I wonder what sort of chastisement she would have had to go through if she had done such a thing in any other developed country; true, she is not the first or the only one to do such an act but I feel that the ‘common man’, being part of an educated and developing society, should have a better sense of responsibility.