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Tuesday, December 1, 2009
A Cynic's day out

Because of my lackadaisical approach to anything closely related to planning we ended up entering a clothes shop just a couple of hours before our flight. The ever opportunistic salesman sensing my dad’s fidgeting looks figured he could make a quick deal. I suddenly found myself being bombarded with shirts that would make my dad’s old tweed suit look like Armani. The guy said “Cool choice!”. Hey! I don’t need a 50-year old’s take on what looks good on an 18-year old... Thanks but I can choose for myself. Having not found anything remotely mediocre we left the shop empty handed.

“Namaste!” greeted the hot chick in skirt-and-tops as I boarded the flight. Talk about culture intersection. No welcome cookies, no free beverages!! Welcome to the world of no-frills travel. “Only a five-hour ride”, I lulled myself and already, I was getting bored. How long do I stare into that smiley-faced air hostess! Bored and almost driven to insanity by a toddler who thinks he’s on a bird and “Wooosh!!” goes his mom into an animated description of what I assumed to be Tweety, the canary. I totally flipped out.

Only now did I realize that in-flight magazines ( I’d rather call it picture galleries) were there for a reason. Producing an in-flight book must be really easy don’t you think. Throw in some beautiful locales, hot chicks at a disco, a sun signs page and voila!! It’s done! There’s no motivation to improve it either, obviously you are stuck with it and has absolutely no competition unless momma’s brought her knitting kit along.

With hardly any written text save the editor’s page, I settled on reading the forecast for the month and I was not too enthusiastic about it. I dived straight into my sun sign Sagittarius.Hey most of it was pretty cool. They even guessed it right. “You are going to travel this month to far off places. You might be going on a holiday. You will find happiness in what you do. You will meet a lot of people who ….”
Ahah! They might have got away on any other day, but my mind was just itching for an exercise. Here I am reading an in-flight magazine and guess what predicts, travel!! How convenient, Mr. Nostradamus!!

“You might be going on a holiday”? That’s an awesome prediction too especially in the month of Diwali!! I couldn’t resist it. I skimmed through all signs. They had practically the same content. The guys who made this collection of crap clearly understood the self-centered human mind. We don’t care too much about others and we believe that the world is wholly and fully binding to us and us only. Nice attitude.

Its funny, just a little thought on how things work can get you to believe that there’s someone up there, watching all this madness with a sardonic smile….

“Please fasten your seat belts”, I heard the drone of the animated smiley. Thank God I am saved!

Labels: Humour, Sarcasm, Travel

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