According to Gu Jarati, the fights on the road start in English and they are sitting in the car! Only the first one and a half sentences have to be spoken in English. In two and a half words, both parties come straight to Gujarati. Every now and then a catchy dialogue comes in Hindi too and it is the Hindi dialogue that is loved by everyone across India, 'Dekh Ke Nahi Chalata…?' I don't believe that any driver in the world is clairvoyant and even knowing that he is not, he will ask, 'Do you see or not drive?' If you look at it in terms of language, what do you answer? In order to make him feel a little better, he should not say, 'No, brother, no. Nowadays, 'look,' I don't even walk in the house!' There is no need to say yes. By then, the 'ma-benny' phase starts. The poet friend sitting next to me (yes. He was my friend despite being a poet! – achievement!) After a small clash, he scolded me that the opposite should not be written here or there. Said, is it in the 'Mandakranta verse' or in the Shardulvikridit verse?' The car was mine, so I did not think of pulling the steering wheel and hitting him on the head in anger. It was not meant to be sarcasm, because we don't know how to sarcasm, and even if we have the ability, the poet makes mistakes of short duration. As we are Gujaratis, we have to do nothing but gossip. The fight is not going to come down! If you want to get off, the person in front should be ready, right? After the initial tu-ta, Gujaratis start introducing themselves, 'You don't know who I am?' He does not have any new question and he just adds 'y' to his question and says, 'Don't you know, who am I?' I don't like being hit in the car. After landing, it does not fit at all. We live in a narrow city like Ahmedabad, so every day we have to hit the car with coke and coke! If you stop someone from Amthi, you have to get off to give a fight on the city highway. The one who has to be confronted, he will come up to us in a frenzy and ask the first question like a glasses dealer, 'Dekh or Nahi Chalata?' We have to prepare the answer. The easiest answer is, 'Tum Dekh Ke Nahi Chalate?' At first glance, it looks like two blind men fighting. In case, if you want to fight, you don't know whether to punch first or to speak insults because of lack of experience! However, the easiest is to push the shoulder of the party! To pull the caller of the party against the maximum reach of our Gujaratis! This is the only wrestling in the world, with two wrestlers and several referees gathered on the scene! But the work of these referees is just to watch! One of our things is fluttering, we don't see any acquaintances around us! Our impression in society is that of a gentleman (no comments, please!) and if someone abuses us on the road, 'didn't anyone hear you?' It is the first concern. Our throat has not yet settled on the words, so in such an obsessive phase, we do not remember a single word, and the person in front of us is knocking new words one after another! A valuable role in this entire incident is that of the wife sitting next to him. There is no time to understand why two cars have collided, the matter has reached an impasse and the wife is pulling your shoulder and ordering you to keep quiet. Haki becomes more fanatical during such a fight, and pleads to the opponent with folded hands, saying, 'O bha'ai…java diyo ne! Made a mistake, that's it? Thank you for sending me…this is my husband's stomach ache, so it must have been a bye-bye…you—'' Hearing this I got eighteen hiccups at once, since when did my stomach ache again? ? I dropped the quarrel with him and asked Haki in awe, 'Since when did the pain start? Is that what is being said?' He told me, 'I have to scare him, I will kill him and if he has some convulsions, I will die…!' 'Hey, why not coke instead of wine?' 'Look, but I'm going to Rio, right? Any boilo? Did they get into that situation or not?' I felt good that his tongue did more work than my muscles. The question 'Dekh or nahi chalata?' The answer has not yet been found. The one who asks this knows that, even though everyone is driving while seeing, the heart turns to ask whether the person in front is blind or not. He has to ask this same question and he knows that we don't have the answer. But the tough question is, if such a small collision takes place in the traffic, what else do we have to react? However, this 'dekh ke nahi chalata?' policy does not come into play when neo-rich families are given extravagant cars by their fathers and have an average of 4-5 major accidents a month. Dead is dead, but the son of the elder father sits comfortably at home and eats sandwiches.
Sixers are good as long as they don't get married. So far, many Ladis have been booked in his name alone!
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