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     I am in the second first seat of the bus from besant Nagar to Villivakkam, a guy boarded at saidapet sat nearer to me. We started with the genuine smile, later... it became a very good conversation as he was in the same age category. We shared our opinions about affiliated colleges, sports, state politics, and humanity. 'Nowadays the helping tendency of people have changed' he said. 'Partially', I claimed.

     Driver was clever enough to go through the mersal traffic of Chennai, although he managed to clear all signals we were caught by Skywalk signal,...signal shows 120,119,118,117,... meantime I enjoyed the mist, drizzle with the sun getting down. A girl before us on the first seat started laughing, laughing in an uncontrollable way; we imagined like there must be a funny lovable joke on her phone. Suddenly the person who stood with his pulsar NS200 before the bus misbalanced and fell on the road, the bike was over his leg that he couldn't lift it to make his leg free. 

     A pause,... everyone noticed it but none came to rescue,... I started getting down to help him, before that an auto driver anna came down and lift the bike, we were able to help the unknown person; he thanked us with the powerful smile. Signal shows 16,15,14... I gave a smile to the auto anna and boarded the bus. The bus crossed the Anna Nagar bridge, the guy who sat next to me said 'Things didn't change people still have helping mind'. We both shared a laugh. He gets down at Shanthi Colony. This time an uncle with a neat dress, well-polished shoes sat closer to me with his phone.

     It feels like he was in an argument with someone on his phone. He listened to the phone and said, 'although we give freedom there is a culture right, She should wear proper dress la'

'She is calling me as Uncle da,...'

He listened to the phone again and questioned,

'Onnu, appa nu kupudu illa mama nu kupudu athu enna uncle?'

bla bla...

It made me guess correctly, he is complaining to his son about his new daughter in law.

He getdown at ICF.

I questioned to myself, that

'What is the difference in calling him as uncle and Mama?' Hahaha

'Does dressing sense of girls should change after marriage?' ???

Driver shouted, 'Last... last stop'.

Help each other without expecting anything in return.

Dressing sense is an individual right.

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