The Search for a Helmet
I was actually not supposed to be posting this, I had been writing another post but really this is something I had to post. There is a new rule by the Tamil Nadu Government; which makes the wearing of Helmets compulsory for both the rider and the pillion rider. I had been bugging my dad for three-four days to get one before they go out of stock and my dad as usual didn’t even care for what I say. When I came home today and told him that tomorrow is 1st June(when the rule gets into effect) he goes OH!! Then I and my dad went on for search of a helmet.
I should have taken my camera with me, all the stores that sold Helmets were filled with people. Even the ones that are not in the city hub were full of customers and had no Helmets left since many people bought them. My dad I went all the way to T. Nagar(Shopping Heaven Hell). Then we directly went to Satans Pit(Sarvana Stores) there. It seemed they were stocking helmets. The worst part of this tiring exercise of pushing ourselves through the crowd and traffic was that none of the helmets left there fit my head(I have a really big head) and we couldn’t buy a smaller one. It took me around 30 minutes to get past the whole bunch of people standing next to the place they had the helmets. When I at last got out of it, my dad wasn’t convinced that they didnt have bigger ones and stood there till I dragged him out of there.
It was really a pain to get back home as the traffic was killing. So in the end we wasted around 2 hours(7:30 pm to 9:30 pm IST) and came home with nothing. So this means my dad will have to take his car out even when only one other person has to travel with him, waste of Petrol.
The worst thing is that from tomorrow onwards the prices of helmets will reach sky high. These people will just hoard it and try to extract more money from people. Anyways next time I go Helmet hunting I am taking camera with me.
June 3rd, 2007 at 7:33 pm
The samething happened here in Mumbai when they made helmets compulsary here. And now, nobody even bothers.
I know I don’t wear a helmet.
June 4th, 2007 at 6:13 am
LOL now these people do wear helmets and even the car drivers have started wearing seat belts, it looks cool and weird.
June 5th, 2007 at 6:14 pm
Its all nearly coming back normal again
June 5th, 2007 at 6:14 pm
yeah I saw today they are all coming back to normal now.
June 11th, 2007 at 8:34 am
That _had_ to happen !