Before I start describing my bitter experience, I think I should mention about the article published by C.K. Meena in The Hindhu: Metro Plus Bangalore under the title “The velvet touch”.
Read the article here => The Velvet Touch
The incident happened long back ago, long back means around 2 years ago. What prompted me to blog about this incidence is an article published by Monish in his blog about a very similar kind of incidence. Read the article here ==> Solpaa egXtra egXciting RIDE and finally taken for a RIDE…
Monish is my colleague in MindTree.
Here goes the narration.
I was returning from my home at Payyampally to Bangalore after a weekend. 700 rupees consisting of two 100 rupee notes and one 500 rupee note, that was the money I had as liquid cash in my wallet. The bus ticket was 60 rupees from Mysore to Bangalore and the bus conductor gave me the ticket and 40 rupees back on giving him one 100 rupee note. Generally I am well aware of what all denominations do I have in my pocket or wallet. I reached Bangalore - Majestic at very odd time; it was 3:00 am – Monday morning.
I decided to take an auto to my house at Banashankari 3rd stage. One of the auto-driver agreed to take me there for double the meter amount. A small boy jumped into the auto after a while, from a junction, the driver said, he is his friend, and he wanted a company while coming back. The driver aged about 20 I guess.
When the auto neared my home the meter showed 70, so I asked him to stop since I had exactly 140 rupees as change and the other was a 500 rupee note. So if the meter had gone a single tick more, I will be in trouble and I was sure the guy won’t have change for that amount. I got down from the auto and gave him the 100 rupee from my wallet, and then moved a little back to get enough light to take the 4x10 rupee that I kept in my back pocket after taking the bus ticket. When I handed over the 4x10 rupee notes, he came back saying I had given initially a 10 rupee note initially and showed me one. He quickly concealed the 100 rupee note I gave.
Now no point in describing, some arguments went on, I was also little concerned, since it was night time and there won’t be any one to help me if the guy attacks me. I lost the battle, and the guy won the money.
I came to know about similar kind of incidents from my friend, and when I read Monish’s article, I understood that this is a repeated trick. I stopped going by auto at night time from then onwards.
I suggest government to look at preventing all these sorts of robbery before they start renaming Bangalore to Namma Bengaloru.
Read the article here => The Velvet Touch
The incident happened long back ago, long back means around 2 years ago. What prompted me to blog about this incidence is an article published by Monish in his blog about a very similar kind of incidence. Read the article here ==> Solpaa egXtra egXciting RIDE and finally taken for a RIDE…
Monish is my colleague in MindTree.
Here goes the narration.
I was returning from my home at Payyampally to Bangalore after a weekend. 700 rupees consisting of two 100 rupee notes and one 500 rupee note, that was the money I had as liquid cash in my wallet. The bus ticket was 60 rupees from Mysore to Bangalore and the bus conductor gave me the ticket and 40 rupees back on giving him one 100 rupee note. Generally I am well aware of what all denominations do I have in my pocket or wallet. I reached Bangalore - Majestic at very odd time; it was 3:00 am – Monday morning.
I decided to take an auto to my house at Banashankari 3rd stage. One of the auto-driver agreed to take me there for double the meter amount. A small boy jumped into the auto after a while, from a junction, the driver said, he is his friend, and he wanted a company while coming back. The driver aged about 20 I guess.
When the auto neared my home the meter showed 70, so I asked him to stop since I had exactly 140 rupees as change and the other was a 500 rupee note. So if the meter had gone a single tick more, I will be in trouble and I was sure the guy won’t have change for that amount. I got down from the auto and gave him the 100 rupee from my wallet, and then moved a little back to get enough light to take the 4x10 rupee that I kept in my back pocket after taking the bus ticket. When I handed over the 4x10 rupee notes, he came back saying I had given initially a 10 rupee note initially and showed me one. He quickly concealed the 100 rupee note I gave.
Now no point in describing, some arguments went on, I was also little concerned, since it was night time and there won’t be any one to help me if the guy attacks me. I lost the battle, and the guy won the money.
I came to know about similar kind of incidents from my friend, and when I read Monish’s article, I understood that this is a repeated trick. I stopped going by auto at night time from then onwards.
I suggest government to look at preventing all these sorts of robbery before they start renaming Bangalore to Namma Bengaloru.
I agree the government has to do something about all this cheating that happens in everybody's life...anyways a nice write up and makes for some good reading...
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mIm
question is have you noted the auto number and lodged a complaint..
ReplyDeleteif you did..i would have appreciated it...lamentations wont do any good..yeah now we have all excuses....like the police..and the previous experiences...
sorry to say deepu..not worth reading........
john
Yes John,
ReplyDeleteThat was something I missed to do. And now I regret about that.
I am not saying excuse, but just want to describe the frustrating experience in the police station when I went with my friend to get an FIR for his stolen mobile. I was not good in Kannada at that time, not much improvements now also. As soon as the officer came to know that we are not good in Kannada, he stopped talking in English and started in Kannada. He was not ready to accept that the mobile was stolen, he mentioned that the mobile was just lost, so that the number of mobile theft happening in Bangalore will be reported less, so no trouble for police and so on. Let me not describe whether it was stolen or lost, but believe me it was stolen.
One thing I have learned from the bitter experience of autorikshaw was how to be more careful so that I am not cheated next time.
John, as you said, I will be looking forward to lodge a complaint if possible in any such future incidence.
Thank you for visiting and for the comments.
--Deepu George V