And the auto saga continues!

Why aren't complaints against auto drivers taken seriously? They literally take us for a ride and also have the audacity to try and abuse us verbally. Well, I don't know how I can make a difference by blogging/ writing about it, but I do hope that this message reaches out to the masses and hopefully there will be some solution to this ever persistent pestilence!
Complaint cells are utterly useless, and speaking to the traffic police is almost always as bad as speaking to the auto drivers! I am so frustrated I am contemplating on moving abroad! Maybe that would be a good move. If I get cheated there, at least I can blame the country and their prejudice against Indians! Over here there is nothing I can lay the blame on!
I don't know what will lay a stop on this extortion in broad day-light. As I came to work today and faced yet another jack-a** auto driver, I also saw two traffic policemen on Cubbon Road taking money from a lone auto driver who was perhaps handing over the money he would have used to buy his lunch.
The systems is alive with scavengers for other's money, from the top through the bottom.
I am wishing for a Bruce Wayne! 'Coz I don't see any way out of these murky waters!!

Autos - a pain in the a**!!

And so I fought with an auto-walah again! And guess what? I gave him full one hundred bucks from my home to office. And the distance, if calculated properly is exactly 11 kms. If it is Rs. 7 per km, then the meter should read exactly Rs. 77. But this idiot's meter read Rs. 88. Just Rs. 10 you say? Well, if everyday I give 10 bucks extra to these jokers, then at the end of the month, it becomes Rs. 300. And Rs. 300 is a big amount. Multiply that by 12 and it comes to 3600 bucks. And why should I give Rs. 3600 to stupid auto-walahs when I can be using that for so much better things? And because I was so goddam pissed with that ba*****, I even returned the change that he had given me for 100!!

I bitched about him with my sis and told her that he would surely meet with an accident today and hopefully break a leg so that he would not be able to drive an auto for months together! So much for being an auto-traveller!

And I wonder why the police never book them for charging more than they should. If I try taking an auto from Brigade road to Forum, they ask me for Rs. 120! One guy even went on to say that he was asking that much because the govt. had gone mad or something like that!! I mean, hello! 120 bucks from Brigade road to Forum?? WTF??!!

At 8 pm they ask me for one and half on meter. And if I say it's only 8 they say that there's traffic and that they would have to come back empty!

The entire system is so goddam f*****!!

Some days I set out like a crusader against this malpractice and refuse to board autos which ask extra over the meter or refuse to turn the meter. And guess what? Some other dude or chick would be willing to give them that much and more!! I wonder when people will learn!

The idiot this morning said that money doesn't come simply. Like my money is taken from the trees! What the hell man??!! I slog my ass off every freaking day and at the end of the month my salary still gets deducted for taking a day off or reaching late! And these idiots say that we have the money but are not willing to give them. Why the f******* hell should I give them what is not theirs?

Freaking thieves.

And the saddest part is, I cant even say that I'll boycott them from tomorrow! Why you ask me? Ever tried travelling by bus in Bangalore at the office hours?!!