The starting trouble on a humid morning.
The mornings are always a time of
starting trouble, either it is for men or it is for vehicles. The old times vehicles had that at a higher
rate. It was an effort to put into life
an old car or truck in those days. Always
there were more than one person involved in starting a vehicle then. The driver always used to have a helper who
helped to turn a handle vigorously and turn the fan inside the engine from the
front, while the real hero, the driver used to sit in and accelerate until the
engine started to catch up and rev on its own.
As soon as the fire starts the handle turner pulled back the handle,
swiped the sweat on his brows and took a deep sigh of relief. Next he put the handle back inside the
vehicle and either waited to see the driver revved up for a while to heat the
engine and then sat in.
Now that was about old vehicles. Old people are almost the same, but
generally, do not need any helper!
Getting up is generally without effort as long as one is in village
areas where birds wake up almost every body in the morning. But waking won’t do. One has to get moving. That is the
challenge. First one says all the
prayers one can remember. Then sit up
and get up. This is to move and see if
the morning news paper has arrived! If
it has not come, one an go to bed again.
But as it is the morning paper very rarely make a miss and it is there
at the door. One avidly grabs the paper
and open the pages quickly flipping away the first couple of pages of mere
trade in the form of full page advertisements.
These days, there are prompting words like “FREE, FREE’, ONLY FOR TODAY, ONLY FOR THESE ..FEW…DAYS, YOU SAVE…SO MUCH’ etc., etc. Once the news comes the big headings with
more ink is gone through quickly to see that the world is on its axis properly
turning and then slowly one strains ones eyes for the smaller inked stuff
! By the time a cup of tea is made
available by who so ever is in the house hold and that triggers the day!
The effect of tea is now a real
winner after cigarettes and desi cigarettes called beedis are a strict ‘no, no’
due to their cancer properties well known and advertised these days. All that is good and fine but the heat of the
weather chart make one drowsy in Chennai this time of the year. A much wanted rain does not come down and the
clouds are going hay wire hither and thither to rain or flood in places where
it is not expected. What ever happened
to climate, every body wonders! But one has to suffer it. No one can do anything single handed. As such has to suffer the vagaries of the
extremes. One hastens to take a morning
walk early as before long it is going to be too hot to walk outside. Even when there is a cloud, still the hot
winds from the west make it uninteresting outside in Chennai. So it is good to be indoors after the morning
walk or reaching office if it can be so done.
At least until after some welcome rain which is expected in a week or
two.
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