“No papa!! Don’t turn it on…the plane hasn’t stopped yet”. “Arey it’s alright…the phone needs to be turned off because it disturbs pilots’ communication…now we have landed…now who needs communication!!”, “No papa…they said not until the seat belt sign is turned off…and please don’t get up…the plane hasn’t stopped!!” and so went the conversation when I recently landed in Jaipur, a father trying to convince his 10 year daughter that it was okay to break rules because they knew better than a zillion experts who made them. In another instance at Chennai a suited-booted thirty year old snapped out his phone and chatted away to glory in the middle of the aisle completely ignorant of a hoard of people standing behind him not able to walk outside the plane. When pointed out his response was: “Are you new to India??”
When finally Police officials started acting on people using mobile phones while driving, we started a new trick…to hide the phone below the steering wheel as soon as we spotted one of those Khaki clads and then cheerily carrying on with the conversation, or to fix the telephones inside the helmet and give people driving around us the weird impression that we were speaking to them. “They are watching you”…went the PVR ad…“Let them watch” went we, and while the hero’s mother is dying on the screen a Gujju bhai sitting next to you, invariably is discussing Reliance’s fortunes on the stock market. Hutch should be made our national cell-phone operator…at least dogs aren’t allowed inside theatres or planes!
How is it that the simple logic of a 10 year old could comprehend a simple instruction so easily when a grown buffoon of a father refuses to! Who do we think we are fooling by hiding our cell-phones while driving…do you really think it does not affect your driving? Next time look around and see if someone is driving weird around you…9 out of 10 times it’s someone on a phone (except for Bombay…there it’s just the way they drive). And dude if your turning on the cell-phone was really so crucial as soon as you land your last name would have been Tata and you wouldn’t be flying coach (sorry sorry...the "Cattle Class"), so listen to the girl!!
When finally Police officials started acting on people using mobile phones while driving, we started a new trick…to hide the phone below the steering wheel as soon as we spotted one of those Khaki clads and then cheerily carrying on with the conversation, or to fix the telephones inside the helmet and give people driving around us the weird impression that we were speaking to them. “They are watching you”…went the PVR ad…“Let them watch” went we, and while the hero’s mother is dying on the screen a Gujju bhai sitting next to you, invariably is discussing Reliance’s fortunes on the stock market. Hutch should be made our national cell-phone operator…at least dogs aren’t allowed inside theatres or planes!
How is it that the simple logic of a 10 year old could comprehend a simple instruction so easily when a grown buffoon of a father refuses to! Who do we think we are fooling by hiding our cell-phones while driving…do you really think it does not affect your driving? Next time look around and see if someone is driving weird around you…9 out of 10 times it’s someone on a phone (except for Bombay…there it’s just the way they drive). And dude if your turning on the cell-phone was really so crucial as soon as you land your last name would have been Tata and you wouldn’t be flying coach (sorry sorry...the "Cattle Class"), so listen to the girl!!
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