And he spoke..

"Welcome to rickshaw MH-04 1425 .I will be your captain for today. Please be seated. You must wonder why i call myself that, captain, and not driver. Let me ask you something. Have you ever wondered why we drive as fast as we do? I can tell from that look on your face that you not just have, but worried to trauma over it. haha! You know, we rickshaw-drivers believe that at some point, if we continue breaking speed barriers, we will fly........... you must think its stupid, but then you know a dragonfly cant fly, it just does not know that it cant. Now if you think Rickshaws have never flew yet they continue to think they can.........i will call it your good humor, and carry on believing.

Is that a book that you took out to read. Please don't, its not recommended. Your focus should be on the road. Ya i know you may think its my job, but you would be surprised to know how its yours too! Well, you see every time you are not looking at the road, you tend to not be prepared for that sudden swirl i make to overtake or to negotiate that pot-hole i saw 30 meters ahead but did not tackle it till we were a meter away from it. Notice the "we" here, :) , this implies your as responsible for a safe ride as i am. Actually i am not , i am only responsible for my fun ride...hehe, just kidding. Coming back to the unprepared swirl while you are reading. It jerks you to sides, needlessly, spraining your neck. Price you pay for unpreparedness. And when i brake, yes, you would not know when, not that you will know otherwise, but imagine how your unprepared reading head will come and hit the back of my head when i break...haha......that would be funny. And if you still insist on reading then your really pushing your luck. This is not a plane, i mean it is, i mean i wish one day. But no, you cant read, or even listen to music, because you wont enjoy any of that. These rickshaws are not made for those. I don't think you have ever wondered why Bajaj, our providers, never took the little trouble of fitting those springs over the wheels called shock-absorbers. Either they did not want you to do your thing, or they simply understood our boredom and did this to ensure you and me have more conversation. Do you realise the only time you speak to me is when i hit a pot-hole or speed or brake? Ya, we need that conversation. It lets us know that we are special too :) . So don't be surprised if i speed at least three times in spite of your demands to not. The reasons are two - a.) i want to fly & b.) i want to talk.

There is much more that you would need to know for a happy safe ride. But i guess we will leave that for later.

Welcome aboard! "