Cab Confessions

Cabs are different sort of kingdom

 I remember saying long long ago. And the fact remains the same, cabs, the school buses of the corporate world (with way less legs space and less explicit fights for seats) have and will always harbor clans and groups and prejudice and apprehensions, somewhat similar to going to a new school. You don't have friends per say and you keep to yourself but slowly you lose the apprehensions and build things from there on, which for me is always a long process. Ironically this wasn't the case this time as I was made a part of this kingdom and within short time it was about looking from the other side of the senseless jokes and the lame chitter chatter and feeling less pretentious and more senseless and lame.
 
Looking back at  my first job, my tryst with corporate culture, it was not exactly garden of roses but yet it all feels good in retrospect, perhaps nostalgia mellows you down and makes you a bit of  a sucker for all things old, known and assured.Getting to grips with the new environment was tough. Acting professionally,meeting deadlines(yeah sounds hotshot), sipping coffee on your workstation while punching on keyboard incessantly and pretending to like coffee, seeing your manager candidly nibbling on pan masala and lewdly checking out some chick, getting "God! he knows fuck all about accounts" look from your seniors  you sometimes most of the times lose it, and these are the times when you wish for a  getaway, and cab was exactly that and more. You get to know that you are not the only one lying at the bottom of and getting  screwed by the delegation chain. You share that us against them kind of bonhomie with the cab mates, the bond fosters and you start to care about people which is shown as permitted by cab rules by ridiculing them. It's not only about ridiculing (though it occupies lion share) but goes on to the silly little gestures like cancelling cabs and coordinating to be able to go in the same cab,at the eleventh sending urgent deliverable work and still communicating about the cab timings,mindlessly running to catch the cab while others wait and cabby frowns, preparing for farewells with personalized cards, the endless dumb charades are some of those cute nonsensical things that make you smile even while writing about them.

We hardly care about these little quirks that time, we are more spent in living this new tough looking 9 to 5 life and the cab time seems like one of its facet which makes it bearable but we realize the importance of this little bliss after its gone and then you think about all the time whether you could have added more, had more fun, made much more use of that time had you not been dozing off in the morning cabs, but all this ranting sounds like the yearning of a greedy child who can't get enough of anything that made him happy and is now taken away.