- When Paratta is spelt Parota and Pronounced Brotta and has NOTHING to do with Parantha, but instead looks like this.
- When the waiter suggests Chicken Manchurian as a gravy item for Chappppathhhiy
- When they give you one spoon when you ask for ‘spoon’ to eat your Idlis. And it turns out to be a Teaspoon
- When at 9 pm you want Idli, but they say they don’t serve Idli now because it is lunch time.
- When the line between Cold Drinks and Cool drinks merge and confuse the nuts out of your life.
- When Coke half litre is sold at Rs.2 more because it is marked up with ‘cooling’ charges (and yet, the Coke is as cold as piss of a horse after a race at Mahalaxmi Race Course on a hot day)
- Taking a PTC bus is easier on the heart rate, BP and Adrenalin than taking an autorickshaw.
- If you igore the health hazard above, and still choose instead spend 15 minutes being interviewed by an Autowallah before you can get a ride to a place.
- When you blow up a months saving in travelling by autorickshaws
- When man at the wine shop looks like you gave him an impossible SUDOKU to solve when you ask him ‘do you have Smirnoff?’
- Wine shops sell some obscure brands like MGM Whiskey and ‘Vannila’ Vodka more than other brands the rest of India has heard of.
- Bar tender asks you ‘so how many will you have tonight’ when you place the first order for a drink, because he has to climb two flights of stairs to get each drink
- When the person selling ANYTHING is unaware of the fact that any transaction involving money means the buyer looks for value of some kind
Wait for a more detailed post. Am seriously stressed out here. Have a helluva ranting to do.
Kamlesh said:
Machaan, here’s another far more pleasurable and visually satisfyiing way to know you’re in Chennai.
http://adsoftheworld.com/media/tv/royal_enfield_short_film
Karthik Nagarajan said:
machan,
you are a tad out of touch with Chennai, when:
1. you confuse kerala porotta with the parantha. the recipe and the methodology (which is actually an art form) is entirely unique (not to mention dravidian).
2. you have the audacity to ask for a ‘spoon’ to eat the ‘finger lickin good’ idli
3. you are still askin for coca cola in the land of kalimark (trio, solo and bovonto)
4. you are still referring to it as a ‘wine shop’, when the generic brand name is now Tasmac
you north indians, i say! 😉
NorthIndianHere said:
I completely agree with what you’ve written on rickshawallas but the rest of it is NOT TRUE.
Souji said:
Hilarious!!! Only two ppl I know who can write like this u and shanky