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Funny sights at traffic signals

By ⋅ August 21, 2006 ⋅ Post a comment

All my expe­ri­ence at some time or another.

- Man lean­ing out of the win­dow and peer­ing close to the front rear mir­ror, adjust­ing it, tak­ing comb out of pocket and vigourously brush­ing it. The catch was he had just a few strands of it.

- Man & woman in the car. Woman try­ing to dis­tract man by pulling his hair. This goes on for a while. Then man in frus­tra­tion pulls off her dupatta. Both of them laugh like crazy. Ahem. Are there no decency laws around this place? :)

- Pluck­ing nose hair. Yucck!!

- Pluck­ing nose muck. Even yuc­ck­ier. But it’s some­thing about traf­fic sig­nals that make peo­ple reach for their nose, methinks.

- Woman hag­gling with ven­dor. This goes on for a while. Then she loses inter­est and the poor ven­dor is left stranded, hopes high but no sale. She was prob­a­bly in a mood for bar­gain­ing. Women do strange things sometimes.

- Man takes out pen from pocket and scratches back vigourously. Then not hav­ing much luck reach­ing strate­gic loca­tions, hands it over to co-passenger, who then takes the pen and goes about the task with much sin­cer­ity. Where the hell is my camera?!

- And this is some­thing I did. This was at the air­port road sig­nal before the fly­over (god, that sounds good) with a friend in the car. A nice song started play­ing and after a bit, not being able to resist it, I let go of steer­ing wheel (foot firmly on brake!) and did a lit­tle dance right there in the driver’s seat. Just after I fin­ished my impromptu per­for­mance, we noticed 2 guys on a motor­bike peer­ing into the car from the front glass, look­ing *really* amused. We all broke out laugh­ing and thank­fully just as embarass­ment set­tled in the sig­nal turned green!

Any funny moments you remember?

Discussion

10 Responses to “Funny sights at traffic signals”

  1. First up, we are pis­ceans and I thought you’re inter­ested in foor­ball. But no posts on this topic in your blog?

    By the way, the blog is nice, but for the color composition!

    http://www.bluechampions.wordpress.com

    Posted by vjkrishnaaa | August 21, 2006, 3:30 am

  2. Sorry about the mis-spelling of ‘foot­ball’. I hate spelling errors, espe­cially the ones oth­ers make.

    Posted by vjkrishnaaa | August 21, 2006, 3:32 am

  3. For the three min­utes of stop or “Enter­tain­ment gratis”, the world around you is a stage of many, all going about the daily things in their own idio­syn­cratic ways its only then we stop and observe, nose pick­ing is the com­mon­est; peo­ple fran­ti­cally mes­sag­ing, gawk­ing at d lovely cou­ple in the two wheeler parked just two steps behind. Not the funny moments just things I ran­domly remember.

    Posted by Shadab | August 22, 2006, 9:29 am

  4. 1. Early morn­ing ride to work — stop at Mani­pal sig­nal and see a woman in the next car busy fin­ish­ing her van­ity affairs — lip­stick, mois­tur­izer — the works!
    2. A guy on the bike wear­ing a jacket that had “McDon­alds — best fash­ion cloth­ing” writ­ten on the back! Since when McD’s diver­sify into fash­ion cloth­ing?
    3. I do the lit­tle jig at the dri­ving wheel lis­ten­ing to music, very often.
    4. Oh! how could I miss this one. Saw this guy on a bike whose hairdo had a nat­ural puff big­ger than any caps hood
    And many more that amuse me every­day … that I have forgotten

    Posted by Möbius | August 24, 2006, 4:58 pm

  5. hehe­he­hehe.
    One thing that hap­pens often to me is when I am curi­ously star­ing at peo­ple scratch­ing head or air­ing their hair ( by remov­ing the hel­met and run­ning their fin­gers through )they actu­ally sense me star­ing and make eye con­tact. That throws me off bal­ance and I dont know where to look. i bet they must find it very funny!

    Posted by Usha | August 25, 2006, 5:59 pm

  6. vjkr­ishna: the only time i watch foot­ball is dur­ing the world cup :)

    shadab: there’s always enough to keep one occu­pied i guess.

    mobius: well, sig­nals are always the best time to do a beauty makeover methinks. women don’t believe in wast­ing in any time for sure :) i have a friend who takes out her big brush and combs her hair when­ever she gets a moment (no mat­ter where we are).

    usha: you’re right! men often do the hel­met thing. like they’ve lost some pre­cious hair in the meanwhile!

    Posted by Anita | August 29, 2006, 6:27 pm

  7. Nice ones. inspires me to ven­ture out with my cam to cap­ture these and some more ‘light’, I mean ‘traf­fic light’ moments.

    Being a girl, how come you missed Bik­ers ogling around at the lights?

    Posted by silkboard | September 1, 2006, 12:00 pm

  8. A keen sense of obser­va­tion. You are a per­son who enjoys the moment. Keep going.

    Posted by Subbu | September 4, 2006, 1:15 am

  9. I had this fun­ni­est remem­brance on traf­fic sig­nal.. I was in ban­ga­lore that time. My hus­band was com­ing to pick me up at one gas station.(we decided Gas sta­tion as a com­mon place, strange.. but that was the only land­mark I could tell Autowalla, I was just 2 weeks in blr that time, Dint know much of air­port road area..)
    I was pass­ing my time by look­ing as traf­fic go by. Sud­denly there is red light lil far from me.. I see this hand­some hunk on his bul­let.. Nice gog­gles no hel­met.. and for a few sec­onds my heart skipped a beat..and i was real­lly like.. wow… thats some hot guy.. :-)
    and then my senses cames back telling.. “Hold on .. u r mar­ried honey”..:-) and u know what hap­pens in next 2 min­utes.. This hand­some hunk comes and stops his bul­let right across me.. And i realised its my hubby.. I was like..bonkers.. I told him.. what i went thru.. He was like.. madam… dont eye guys now.. u r taken .. but over all very nice experience…

    Posted by Zeya | March 6, 2007, 6:15 am

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