Garuda Mall in B'lore is a cursed place. I hate all malls but this one I hate most. Why?
Well, because it's always crowded (I know that's how a mall's supposed to be, but hear me out!); holidays, working days don't matter at all.
Pity is one has to make a stop there thanks to friends who still consider it a hep joint...Yuck!
Special mention to the food court. If you can call what they serve in such places food!
I happened to be there a few days back with my friends. Thanks to the perfect timing from me and me friends we were stuck in MG road starving at about 3 in the afternoon when every decent restaurant in the city was closing down.
After running down to Tandoor, Copper Chimney and a few more good ones nearby, we had to settle for the awful food court at this mall.
I try my best to avoid eating at these places. They are crowded, they serve pathetic food at exorbitant prices and there's not a decent place to sit!
You have to go around with your plate for at least 30 minutes before you can get your place to sit...
Even before you finish ur 'meal' you got an aunty hovering over your head with her shopping bags...ugghhh!
Worse still, they even sit next to you in an effort to make you leave early.
The best, rather worst part is that you have to wait in the counter for your order, now anywhere in India the waiting part is rather painful thanks to the excellent kind of queue that gets formed at the counter, the queue is simply non existent!
So if you're not the one who can conveniently lean (nearly step) on someone else and thrust your coupon on to the front desk, or have a voice that's loud enough to be heard over all that commotion, then you're going to have to wait for a very long time for your meal.
And even if there IS a queue which is a miracle in itself, you'd better watch out for those Sergei Bubkas who'd gladly jump the queue and conveniently forget the morons who are waiting behind them; seriously, you thought this queue thingy was for real?!
And the stupid clerk/salesman at the desk doesn't bother to make Mr. Bubka wait and serves them right away, after all we don't care how you get here; jumping queues aint our problem!
Now it so happened on this otherwise uneventful day, that I was waiting to place an order for a cup of Pepsi (which tastes like sweet water compared to coke, but then that was the only one available; that too for twice the price and nearly half the quantity if you remove all those unwanted ice cubes!).
Just when I was about to hand over the money to the guy at the counter, this ape materialises in front of me 'Hey give me a Pepsi'
I shoot the ape a look as if trying to check if it looked vaguely human. Ape looks back at me, as if I was the one who was trying to act smart by barging in. I say 'You know the idea is to wait for your turn!'
Ape; 'Would you mind your business?'
Now I am charged up; 'Oh yeah, I can see that it's very much mine coz you're wasting my time and unwantedly delaying my drink. I suggest you wait!'
Ape (to the guy at the desk): 'hey, give me my pepsi first!'
(to me): you really should mind your business
Me: Yeah thanks for that, but I am!
Ape: you're not (raps this at least 10 times)
Me: Are you even educated...no wait, even close to civilised?...(to others around me) What IS this thing?!
Forget it...I think you're just some phoney sh*t
Ape: (starts rapping again) you're not (someone tell him he's supposed to change his line according to my response!)
Guy @ the counter : (to ape) You will have to wait for your pepsi!
(to me) Your drink m'am (Ape's not rapping now!)
Me: Thanks! (to ape); See that freak?!
Now I didn't look back at what ape was upto next but then I was glad that I won my little fight, though it was an animal I was up against :D
But there are many such creatures that just can't wait for their turn, and just have to rush before others. And there are some others who so much don't want to be left behind they're almost a threat when in the queue, I mean if you drift a little bit (may be because you're sick of staying put at that place), they think that the Queue is actually moving forward and end up closing in on your personal space! What is with us these days?...!!! Really, what are you upto once you get through the queue? Off to make a million? Well then you'd might as well remember that other's don't want to be late to give it their shot then. And just how much harm would it do to wait for one's turn? And yeah, it's mostly the 'educated' ones that do this every single time. Even the Ape was well dressed and could have looked decent if it wasn't so under nourished (bet he wore fake lables). Time these poeple act the way they're dressed. Do they become so thick skinned that they do not realise that such actions are not going to make them look very good in another person's point of view? Or they're so self centred that they just don't care two hoots!

Posted by Sat at 1:23 AM
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