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May 13, 2007
I am loving it!
All the guys had planned to bunk the botany lab that day. I had made up my mind too. But then the professor’s warning was too much for the guys to stick to their vows. They walked into the lab one by one shamelessly. And I was only one to walk back to the hostel, and get some sleep. That was one killer incident that taught me the best lesson I would have ever learnt in my life. If you have a problem – stand alone, if people are with you it is just a bonus. Let not the support, how much ever large or small, have any influence on your conviction towards the fight you have taken up.
One such fight I had taken up recently was against the auto guys of Chennai, and. I indeed want to put an end to this particular menace. Solving whole of Chennai’s auto problem alone is literally impossible for me. Hence I thought let me start off with the auto stand close to my place.
With the help of 100 & odd signatures, I was able to submit a complaint against them with RTO. The RTO fined the miscreants, and the problem was not solved as yet. Now they knew who was the problem creator - E 6 Alacrity Flats.
My wife went to hire an auto with the same stand a couple of weeks back, and some 7-8 auto guys pounced on her and they pulled a verbal fight with her. And all of them refused to take her to the destination she had asked them to. They instead told her – if you complain about us we will never allow you to board in our autos. She had to walk some 1½ kms to with the 2-year baby to get another auto from the main road.
It is completely their prerogative to decide whom they should take and whom they should not in their autos. But what was wrong from their side was to pull a verbal fight with a single lady. My wife was very upset, and I stuck to law.
We went to the Velacherry police station to file a complaint now. To my surprise, the police were really fast in taking actions. They sent a cop to the auto stand immediately, and asked everyone to come to the police station in the evening. We were also called.
The sub-inspector warned the auto guys, and said, “if I get another complaint from Alacrity Flats, I will cancel all your licenses and clean that auto stand completely.”
My aim is not to make them jobless, but to be nominal in charging the commuters. The problem was not solved yet….
A week later, when my wife was walking towards the main road – one of the auto guys of the same stand drove his vehicle as if he was just about hit her. My wife spoke to stand leader and warned him the second time, and the problem was not solved yet….
Just today my sister was leaving to Ooty from my house, and she sent my father in law to fetch an auto. She specifically told him not to take any auto from the stand, and he did exactly the opposite. He got an auto from the same stand, and the auto guys never knew who my father in law was. He boarded the auto and asked him to wait near the building. The auto guy asked which flat – and my father in law innocently said E6, and the auto guy flew away!
The fight is getting heated up…will keep you updated….
Posted by Kenni at May 13, 2007 06:10 PM
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