Autowalas

Anybody traveling/living in Bangalore must be aware of a phenomenon called auto short for auto-rickshaw. These yellow and black 3 wheelers are meant for public transport, to help public reach their destination conveniently. But sometimes, I wonder who are the people traveling by autos and how on earth could they negotiate the fair fare if at all they could convince auto-wala to go to their desired place. In Bangalore, its better to ask autowalas where he is going and if you happen to go somewhere in the way, its ok else look for another auto. And for the fare, I have already seen a rise of 40% in their fare in last 2 years.

Yesterday, I had to take an auto or bus to reach my office as DK with whom I used to go office after my wrist problem has gone to his home. Sometimes back, I had tried auto to go to office and it costed my 90 bucks one side. From my apartment's parking to office's parking measures around 11.2 kms according to my bike making a proper auto fare of 11.2*7 = 78.2. That too from my apartment's to office's parking. But 90 was all that I could negotiate with. So yesterday I thought of using bus but to get to HAL bus stand I have to travel around 2 kms. I asked one autowala. 30 bucks was the answer. bhainch**... next to that auto was another one without meter. He was going to HAL for 5 bucks only but would take more passenger than you. That was good, I reached HAL for 5 bucks only with other 2 persons and we could have accommodated 1 more person without any problem. While returning from office, it was 6:30 in the evening when I reached HAL. There were 3 autos waiting. Here's my conversation with them-

ME - Bhaiya, BEML chaloge??
Autowala1 - 50 Rupees.
ME-(to myself: behench** ek hi din mein ameer hoga kya be!) - Kyon bhaiya. 2 kms to hai. 15 rupaye lagte hain.
Autowala1 - saar rain hone wala hai..
ME-(to myself: to haraamkhor kya ship ya boat mein le jaayega) - abhi to nahi ho raha hai na bhaiya...
Autowala2 - saar abhi traffic bahut hai udhar..
ME - lekin bhaiya 15 ka 50 to bahut hai. kuchh to kam karo...
Autowala3 - theek hai saar 40 de do.. chalo.
ME-(to myself: mada****d, saale, &*@*%$^&*(# )

So I waited there till it started raining and got drenched. Then came one auto that got ready for 25 bucks.... I reached home saving my 25 bucks... Feels good.:)
Same day I went to doc and asked if I could drive my bike. Doc said yes if it doesn't hurt you. So now I am riding my bike for office, of course its not hurting more than the process of autos.