... a scary ride ..

i seriously need to tell you about our ride back to the hotel from the office, it was such a weird experience - now for the past 3 weeks we have been going the same road to work and the same road from work back to the hotel, the trip is actually pretty straight forward, across the river by the harbour, parallel to the beach till you reach the status, right turn, straight till you come to a junction where you can go straight and over a bright, you go straight, the first left, the first left again and you are there.. - you get the picture :-))

now what our driver (not our normal one) decides to do, for no evident reason is to take a round-trip the whole way around the city, through the slum areas, down some very dodgy side-alleys and after 30 min like this it becomes very clear to both Susanna and myself that he is totally and absolutely lost .. - however still recovering from an emotional day, i am just sitting and looking at the people passing by, starting to be rather relaxing for me - till the point where Susanna asks me if i can see his eyes in the mirror, i search for the mirror only to realize a very scary thing, you can hardly see his eyes, the driver is literally falling asleep - and what is worse, he smells a bit to much of alcohol.. to be honest not the best combination ..

so i try to recall the direction - and soo we enter an area that i recall from one of my many works here in Chennai - and we are back on track.. once we reach the "city centre" the guy almost goes on automatic pilot, cruises to our hotel..when we step out - Susanna gives him one advice "get some sleep" and he looks at her - and replies back "i have been working 24 hours" ..

so lesson learned for me on today's trip always ask a rickshaw driver for 3 things, a) have you been drinking today, b) how much will it cost, and c) when was the last time you slept..