Two magic words
After every trip away from home, on return, the most irritating bit is to have touts and autorickshaw drivers try to virtually snatch your bags and pull you towards their vehicle on arrival. This is prevalent in both the airport as well as the railway station and it can really get on your nerve if you have just had a tiring journey.
I have devised a very simple way of getting these touts of my back and it works wonderfully well for me.
I use the two magic words “Beda Guru” and it has a stunning effect on these drivers who completely stop chasing you from then on. The point is, most of these drivers think that since you have just arrived, you are in all probability, a non-Bangalorean, and hence can be taken for a ride. The moment you call them ‘Guru’, a colloquial equivalent of ‘Mister’, and a local slang, typically used by the more hard-nosed Kannadiga, they understand that you obviously know how to hold your ground against them in Kannada and move on to look for new prey..:)
Try it the next time you land in Namma Bengalooru…it works!!!
I have devised a very simple way of getting these touts of my back and it works wonderfully well for me.
I use the two magic words “Beda Guru” and it has a stunning effect on these drivers who completely stop chasing you from then on. The point is, most of these drivers think that since you have just arrived, you are in all probability, a non-Bangalorean, and hence can be taken for a ride. The moment you call them ‘Guru’, a colloquial equivalent of ‘Mister’, and a local slang, typically used by the more hard-nosed Kannadiga, they understand that you obviously know how to hold your ground against them in Kannada and move on to look for new prey..:)
Try it the next time you land in Namma Bengalooru…it works!!!
posted by Shree at
5:04 PM
4 Comments:
Try Beda Anna --saaku anna !
Bitbidanna sometime ;)
@Naveen, Welcome..to the big bad world of blogging..
thumba thanks guru for the words of advice!!
Thats a tool worth using shree :-).
But I always thought Bangalore auto was reasonably priced, 80% of the time, unlike the Chennai Auto. I remember coming back from delhi with my mother and the guy at the central station auto stand asked me 400 rs for a journey to madipakkam. I could have gone back to Delhi with that amount..in 2nd class.
Compared to Chennai auto rates, everything else seems angelic.The chennai auto rates to a far of place from the station is roughly roprtional to your train ticket :-) of your source station.
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