My conspicuous experiments with life!!

Tuesday, April 13, 2004

the dirty game is here again!
the polling list for the upcoming elections had come today! it was in a total mess. and to make matters worse the font size was too damn small and the printing was also not properly done. so the member of the family with the most powerful vision had to go and check for the names and ultimately it was me. after so much of fussing and showing off my non-chasmuism to everybody i started off there. it was put up on the association notice board and there were nearly five or six people already there checking their names. i went there and my tiny puny eyes couldn't decipher a word out of it. but i still managed to look at it. the quality of the paper was at its worse and to add to that, the paper carried every speck of dirt found on earth. meanwhile the other five standing there wanted me to find their names too! i didn't want to accept my defeat in front of them. so i started planning strategies for finding the names. 'lemme first find the way in which they've printed the list..this would definitely make my job easier; i thought. there started the problem.
i was deeply involved in finding that out tht i almost wasted some 15 minutes. mean while, the precious watch man of our colony came there. he's one retired head master who'd give a lecture for any question you ask him. he sometimes shoots back questions at you...thats one reason why i tend to keep away from him. he came there and started talking about how indian politics is at its worse and how only younger generation can tune up things to suit the global scenario! and blah blah blu blu:(
after my exams, it should have been a wonderful,relaxing evening hadn't i gone there and been his victim! he already talks for hours together and today he had an axe to grind....politics is one topic about which any tom,dick and harry would keep on talking! i kept on fiddling with the polling list and in one corner to my surprise i found my mom's name. my face lit up and i was rejuvenated to find the other names. atlast i found everybody's. but the funny thing is my mom, my granny and my dad who belong to the same family were @ 3 different constituencies. my name wasn't even there.i didn't actually care to search mine.
if in preparing a list for one family, can there be so many confusions, no wonder the entire process of elections is in a chaotic state in the whole country.

Posted by sree at 7:29:00 pm
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