Tuesday, September 06, 2005

Anonymity

Has it own price to pay, I am unable to write a single line without the names and incidents. It's like a huge writer's block, but a challenging one. Writing for writing sake is boring. Anyways, completed half of "Catcher in the Rye by J Salinger".
Memoir from the past (~15 years ago).
I stopped a city bus at 'Fourth Town Police Station'
I walked to a constable and said, "there is a guy sitting in a ladies seat who refused to vacate".
Poor guy disappeared and nobody dared to sit in that seat until I fought my way through the rush.
With the same arrogance, another day walked to couple of guys in a city bus and said, this is ladies seat, can you please move?
One of the guys, pointed to the lines above the seat that reads "Please do not sit in seats that are assigned to Ladies" and said, this is not a ladies seat, it is just an information.
I got down the bus and took the next one out of embarrassment.
Sometimes our arrogance overtakes our common sense.

2 comments:

Kumari said...

Are u removing your old posts when u post a new one?
(Not the ones with names)
But yes, guess being anonymous has its own pros and cons.

Ratna said...

@Kumari: Nope, it should be there.