Tuesday, November 17, 2009

Mad angles … Bingo

In the traffic police box, right in the centre of our four point crossing, there stands a mad man. Somehow a mad man or a crazy person does not have the vibrancy of the word ‘paagaol’. Lunatic? It comes close… but people have saturated the word dipping it too often in Pink Floydish connotations.
The crossing, bound with morose looking zebra crossing at its four sides suddenly blooms with a burst of colours in the middle. A traffic controlling madman takes the centrifugal attention. The green, yellow, red lights do not really obey his gleeful gestures. But the orange patched pajama wearing madman suddenly reminds the people trapped behind the black and white bars of the road, of the colours of life. For a moment the ‘9-o-clocks’ are forgotten and the briefcases turn into magic kits.
I have often found madmen taking up the role of a traffic sergeant, at crossings, pointing us to the right directions , we refuse to accept.

PS: I ruin it with the title don't I?

5 comments:

stuntman mike said...

good one....one small technical snag though. the madman or paagoal if you please was the centre of attention, drawing all pairs of eyes or glasses(in your case)towards himself ... which makes all that attention centripetal rather than centrifugal, the latter being the outward pseudo force/acceleration away from the centre(madman) on a rotating object when studied from the non-inertial frame. trifle, but whatever! :|

p.s: i love being a geek sometimes

Anonymous said...

Why have I never seen the madman?
Perhaps because a madman doesn't see other madmen. :|

Really nice post...and yeah , the title ruins it. Change it.

Anonymous said...

I love the title :|
I love the post more though.

Olive Oyl said...

kill the stuntman for studying science.

Anonymous said...

I loved it <3

miss oyur last blog!

 
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