It isn’t easy to pilot the auto rickshaw on the crowded roads it requires great skill, tons of guts to ram the three small wheels on the bumpy roads carrying passengers weighing four times its own weight. It is the great feelings to drive the three wheeler on the road. The rickshaw is small with the handle instead of steering wheel with the lever in the left hand which needs to pull with the jerk to make the machine start. You are in the front of it just behind the windshield glass. I once dreamt of being rickshaw driver, but it is not at all easy.
You must not have the driving license in first place to drive the rickshaw. This would give the feeling of great achievement on the busy roads just in front of the traffic police. Well, there are great souls to whom even police fear but I’m not keeping so high a target. Lesser the driving knowledge better it is, as more knowledge always makes man more cautious of perils associated. Say if you know taking sharp turns can tumble the stupidly designed passenger vehicle will you do so? So, fun in driving the rickshaw is lost there only. The rickshaw driver must & utmost understand the first principle that he must overtake all the vehicles running along even if he’s slept all the day parking his rickshaw in no parking zone. Yet, when he’s started his vehicle he must be frontrunner; how can he deprive of his passengers being runner up even at the cost of their lives. It is not at all easy.
The rickshaw must be mirror polished all the time. You must be able to comb your styled haircut looking into the polished front of the rickshaw. The interior should be so decorated that even the A class Mercedes Benz develops complex. Then the petty things like seating space for the passengers may have to be compromised, but it is just trivial thing to note. But out of the rickshaw care must be taken to soil the premises around by spitting the gutka churned saliva on continuous basis. In pursuit to join the dare devils on the roads I stitched even the netted dark coloured two button shirt with the long collar & milky white pants. You must be able to sport the chest hairs & keep the arms naked by folding the long sleeve up with the thick brass or steel bracelet on the right hand. That is not all, you must have the careless, tension free & relax feelings spilling over your face & every act even thought you’ve just borrowed money to buy the sachet of gutka. ‘Money! What money I can earn tons in minutes but who wants it anyway’ more one has imbibed such feelings deep into his blood can only qualify to be an able rickshaw driver. I say it is not at all easy.
You must have the guts to talk rudely with the customers, manhandle them if necessary what is customer any way, one goes on other comes to you. Try to squeeze them at every possible opportunity as the same customer will never repeat the same driver & vice versa. And there are ample of both around. Tariff meter fitted inside must be out of order & to be used to tie the silk cloth which furls outside while the rickshaw is on the run that enhances the might & beauty of the rickshaw & its driver both.
The windshield is to protect the driver of dust & smoke etc. but it lets him see through is the lesser known benefit. You must learn to drive the rickshaw looking through space left in the giant sticker pasted onto the glass. Rickshaw must be filled with kerosene in place of petrol. There are few fools who fill mixture of both but that is not the fuel rickshaw is made up for. After all, there are roadside rickshaw mechanics how will they survive? It is chain reaction actually everybody is getting benefited into it & in the end the country is prospering. Parents have to spend less on their child who has the great ambition to become rickshaw driver - rickshaw costs just little above the two wheeler so one gets to earn just easily – no need of driving knowledge so no expenditure – accidents – mechanics & hospitals thrive well – style dresses – tailors benefit – gutka chewing – boost to paan shops helping give birth to gutka king – health problem – hospital boon – rash driving – people get automatic education of unwritten traffic rules – traffic problems due to rickshaw – police earns to turn blind eye – adjusting ten to twelve passengers in the place of three – accommodative feeling is propagated among the masses, fear of getting killed in traffic makes them more humble that is the side benefits like side effect.
Yes I forgot the important benefits that are; every rickshaw driver is Romeo in first place. Sometimes he even tries to molest the girl whom he loves one sided & normally the girl doesn’t even know about his existence. Molestation, killing, abduction etc. causes suicide in some instances thus help reducing the population. If all goes well, then they marry too, again national benefit. Yet, it is not at all easy.
I again realized it is not at all easy, I’m trying my best first with imbibing the careless, tension free nature. Turning forty yet no gains, thus all I can say it is not at all easy.
By
Vijay Yelmelwar
You must not have the driving license in first place to drive the rickshaw. This would give the feeling of great achievement on the busy roads just in front of the traffic police. Well, there are great souls to whom even police fear but I’m not keeping so high a target. Lesser the driving knowledge better it is, as more knowledge always makes man more cautious of perils associated. Say if you know taking sharp turns can tumble the stupidly designed passenger vehicle will you do so? So, fun in driving the rickshaw is lost there only. The rickshaw driver must & utmost understand the first principle that he must overtake all the vehicles running along even if he’s slept all the day parking his rickshaw in no parking zone. Yet, when he’s started his vehicle he must be frontrunner; how can he deprive of his passengers being runner up even at the cost of their lives. It is not at all easy.
The rickshaw must be mirror polished all the time. You must be able to comb your styled haircut looking into the polished front of the rickshaw. The interior should be so decorated that even the A class Mercedes Benz develops complex. Then the petty things like seating space for the passengers may have to be compromised, but it is just trivial thing to note. But out of the rickshaw care must be taken to soil the premises around by spitting the gutka churned saliva on continuous basis. In pursuit to join the dare devils on the roads I stitched even the netted dark coloured two button shirt with the long collar & milky white pants. You must be able to sport the chest hairs & keep the arms naked by folding the long sleeve up with the thick brass or steel bracelet on the right hand. That is not all, you must have the careless, tension free & relax feelings spilling over your face & every act even thought you’ve just borrowed money to buy the sachet of gutka. ‘Money! What money I can earn tons in minutes but who wants it anyway’ more one has imbibed such feelings deep into his blood can only qualify to be an able rickshaw driver. I say it is not at all easy.
You must have the guts to talk rudely with the customers, manhandle them if necessary what is customer any way, one goes on other comes to you. Try to squeeze them at every possible opportunity as the same customer will never repeat the same driver & vice versa. And there are ample of both around. Tariff meter fitted inside must be out of order & to be used to tie the silk cloth which furls outside while the rickshaw is on the run that enhances the might & beauty of the rickshaw & its driver both.
The windshield is to protect the driver of dust & smoke etc. but it lets him see through is the lesser known benefit. You must learn to drive the rickshaw looking through space left in the giant sticker pasted onto the glass. Rickshaw must be filled with kerosene in place of petrol. There are few fools who fill mixture of both but that is not the fuel rickshaw is made up for. After all, there are roadside rickshaw mechanics how will they survive? It is chain reaction actually everybody is getting benefited into it & in the end the country is prospering. Parents have to spend less on their child who has the great ambition to become rickshaw driver - rickshaw costs just little above the two wheeler so one gets to earn just easily – no need of driving knowledge so no expenditure – accidents – mechanics & hospitals thrive well – style dresses – tailors benefit – gutka chewing – boost to paan shops helping give birth to gutka king – health problem – hospital boon – rash driving – people get automatic education of unwritten traffic rules – traffic problems due to rickshaw – police earns to turn blind eye – adjusting ten to twelve passengers in the place of three – accommodative feeling is propagated among the masses, fear of getting killed in traffic makes them more humble that is the side benefits like side effect.
Yes I forgot the important benefits that are; every rickshaw driver is Romeo in first place. Sometimes he even tries to molest the girl whom he loves one sided & normally the girl doesn’t even know about his existence. Molestation, killing, abduction etc. causes suicide in some instances thus help reducing the population. If all goes well, then they marry too, again national benefit. Yet, it is not at all easy.
I again realized it is not at all easy, I’m trying my best first with imbibing the careless, tension free nature. Turning forty yet no gains, thus all I can say it is not at all easy.
By
Vijay Yelmelwar
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