Driving in Chennai is not easy. Vehicles fill up the roads and in between there would be umpteen number of two wheelers. Then among the vehicles are huge water tanker lorries, buses and local mini buses all carrying water and commuters according to usage. Among all these one drives a two wheeler or a four wheeler car.
The weather is cool this time of the year, interspersed with cloudy skies and occasional rain! On one of these days, I started out to see my Specialist doctor with due appointment. But the last minute the Doctor announced his absence and I was free to see another usual doctor but not a specialist. We passed the Kumaran Nagar Red Light without much delay but got the Sholi Red Light for twenty five minutes! Sholi is the short form for our usual Sholinganellur four cross junction. The techies of the place call it 'Shols' for short. The best pronounciation I got from the mini bus conductor, a little boy of fourteen or fifteen. He used to shout 'Sholielur, sholielur' It took me a minute to understand what he was saying. Ultimately, I got it. It is Sholienganellur, no doubt..! It was nice to see, how people make short forms for places and make it convenient to repeat it when needed. The Red Light was pretty long and we could cross it in three stops and the fourth pull got us out of it further to take care of the next three more Red Lights and a minor Toll Booth stop at Kandanchavady. After that we see the Metro rail and then turn right on to the Adyar lead to reach our location. The whole ride we made in about one and a half hours which is very fair and early for a 24 kilometres ride on the OMR road of Chennai. We were satisfied with that ride considering the traffic density and the extreme effort of the police who are generally putting up a great show.
The weather is cool this time of the year, interspersed with cloudy skies and occasional rain! On one of these days, I started out to see my Specialist doctor with due appointment. But the last minute the Doctor announced his absence and I was free to see another usual doctor but not a specialist. We passed the Kumaran Nagar Red Light without much delay but got the Sholi Red Light for twenty five minutes! Sholi is the short form for our usual Sholinganellur four cross junction. The techies of the place call it 'Shols' for short. The best pronounciation I got from the mini bus conductor, a little boy of fourteen or fifteen. He used to shout 'Sholielur, sholielur' It took me a minute to understand what he was saying. Ultimately, I got it. It is Sholienganellur, no doubt..! It was nice to see, how people make short forms for places and make it convenient to repeat it when needed. The Red Light was pretty long and we could cross it in three stops and the fourth pull got us out of it further to take care of the next three more Red Lights and a minor Toll Booth stop at Kandanchavady. After that we see the Metro rail and then turn right on to the Adyar lead to reach our location. The whole ride we made in about one and a half hours which is very fair and early for a 24 kilometres ride on the OMR road of Chennai. We were satisfied with that ride considering the traffic density and the extreme effort of the police who are generally putting up a great show.
