Why are these Autokarans/Autowallahs always disgruntled over something or the other?!! Right now, am not going to talk about the tampered meters, atrocious fares, bad language, worst sense of driving, or their lame reasons for the same from their point of view! Its all about what happens at the end of a ride in an auto!

The thing is, even if we agree to pay whatever these autowallahs ask for and take a ride in their auto, these guys find some reason or the other to grumble about! I dont know if any of you have noticed that, but many autorickshaw drivers start grumbling or murmuring if we ask them to take a few turns at the end of the ride when we are very near to our destination! If they start murmuring, then its a sign that they’ll haggle over the fare and demand more than what was fixed before! Man, Only Government Buses drop you in the main road and go. Autos/Taxis and everything else have to come in drop you near your place. If someone has agreed to pay you whatever you ask and then you go on and demand more, just beacuse you had to make a few left and right turns, thats really awful. Not that all drivers are like that, but most of them are! There are some good drivers as well, who stay cheerful and smiling. We can even give people like them, some extra money voluntarily, for being cheerful and spreading the happiness! I personally hate hiring Autos to go somewhere. Reason: All these reasons combined. It has been years since i stopped going by Autos. These days, not only Auto Drivers, everyone has become self-centered, money-minded and rude!

The reason am writing this post is the incident that happened yesterday… I go to Office by the Office Cab… My place is at the end of an alley and the cab has to come in and drop me and take a reverse to go back… The Cab driver would not be the same all days… But, for the past few days the same cab driver started coming… I used to be polite to him as always! Yesterday, that Cab Driver when he came to pick me up for Office started slowly talking about not coming into the alley bcoz as per their rules they dont go back in the same road that they entered! Come on man stop kidding! Konjam Nallavana iruntha, udane emaatha try pannuranga! If we are a little nice or polite to these guys, they start taking advantage of us. Being nice to them makes them think that we are meek! I told him sternly, I dont know about what rules you are talking about, i am working here for the past four months and all the drivers who have been here havent said anything about this! After that he became silent!

Its really very irritating when they do something like that (Taking advantage of someone, if they are nice! polite! Not only these Cab/Auto wallahs, people in general). Another time that cab driver talks to me about not coming into the alley, i’ve decided to escalate the issue to the concerned department and make sure he’s removed from the rolls or atleast that he doesnt talk to me about not coming in! Ethana naalaiku thaan nallavana irukurathu!!!