There's a ridiculously deficient act by the Gurgaon traffic police at the Delhi-Gurgaon expressway one would come across these days. It surpasses all the other peeves including middle-of-the-road traffic checks and odious questions these cops ask among others by any standard!
At the toll-gate, if you're driving to Delhi from Gurgaon, you'll find a cop standing in your way, stop you, ask you to lower the window, and ask you to breathe on their face! I actually recalled the Colgate ad, 'breath that turns you on'! :-& (sick), Yuck! Cos, it' ain't a sexy woman cop, nor an amiable person in front of you.. it's their cheapest and lame way of checking on you if you're drunk and driving.
Lately, I see them chewing mint-flavored gum, perhaps to do their sensing better, unlike a month ago since when I've been observing this. How did I know that.. of course, they kinda get so close and shoot their questions in their signature style 'Beer pe rakhi hai?" (Have you had Beer?), "Peeke chala raha hai?" (Are you drunk and driving?).. Grrrr...
Well, given all the panic on H1N1 - Swine flu, which is highly communicable, looks like the traffic police department is not troubled by the thought yet! Ignore H1N1, how intruding would a commuter feel (which cop gives a damn to privacy in India, anyways) and to the cop, how belittling even does that act seems, to walk up to someone and ask them to breathe on you?!?
God forbid, if the whole fleet of traffic police in that vicinity there should be erased, by a breath of virus!
3 comments:
I am sorry that your fantasies are not coming true but its not his fault that he is ugly and dont have a paticular style of talking which you like to hear.
I feel we should appreciate their efforts on the contrary, at least they are doing that unlike 95% of others who dont bother weather u live or die.They are working with the limited resource and they have no other way of knowing that weather u are drunk or not so its good us that we should cooperate with them.
Total no of people die on road in India is 100 folds larger than people die due to H1N1 (Its a mild disease, takes your life if left undetected). so does any XYZ disease.
:) Thank you dear friend for your thoughts on this.. The intent and the spirit of the act is appreciated.. Still, I'm taken aback on the fact that how insulting, disgraceful it is to have every passerby throw their 'bad' breath on a person! About cooperation - we do, but do we have a choice?
Well ...I have only one concern when will this Drive ends (Same was asked from a cop, no reliable answer)...because for a non alcoholic this is disgrace n utter unconvinience...Better we stop going to Gurgaon...Gud for Delhities...
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