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Well you always something new in the morning on the drive to work, sometimes its subtle other times its not. Today we have a half half drive, so far I have seen:
- at least 10 men peeing on the roadside, why do men and women here just pull and and pee, it doesnt matter where they are too.
- one man vomiting copious quantities of liquid on the roadside, mind you he was facing the traffic so I couldn’t miss this performance.
- a cow sitting in the middle of the road
- a cow sleeping lieing on its side in the middle of the road, it looks like its dead but its sleeping, I have never seen cows sleep like this before
The car I am been driven to the office in is a piece of shit, its a older unloved very dirty tata indigo, a little car. In reality its probably no older than 2 years, but they have no cleaning chemicals here nor vacuums, so imagine the smell of the worst cab you have ever been in and you can put yourself in my seat. This one I feel dirty sitting in and I am sticking to the seat which is not a good sign! My normal tata indigo, although badly dented on the outside at least is clean inside, but its gone in for a new gear box. They thought that this was a good idea as 1st gear and 3rd gear didnt work anymore!! plus it had this horrible metal on metal noise coming out of the front of the car at any speed over 20 kmh.
So today will make another day of not doing much, I am totally amazed at how nothing ever gets done here. In our office there must be 100 people in there and mostly they don’t do much. the internet in the office is horrendously slow, its a dsl 512kbps connection between these 100 or more people, so you can imagine how useless it is. Because these people are using the internet they get even more unproductive as they wait for pages to load. Its so slow that cnn.com just doesn’t load at all, plus add to it a firewall protecting us from the evils of hundreds of website its just a waste of time using the office internet connection, so most of us use our wireless internet cards. They are cheap, although limited to 10gb of downloads at just $12 per month for the connection.
Oh…now the radio in the car has started working out of one speaker, but its not turned on…. its just started this all by itself… its so distorted too as the speaker is blown out, you can hear the paper in the speaker rattling. The driver, Mukesh, just fixed it by actually removing the radio unit as a whole out of the dashboard, so the radio is now sitting on the seat. But at least its quiet.
The traffic is moving again as we come into the last couple of miles into the city, and the road is going to get really bumpy here, which is strange as its one of the newest sections of road…obviously no one put in the contract for the road builders that they must use a level when making the road.
Take a look at this, its the mall cops at City Center Mall here in the suburb of Salt Lake City being inspected, just after I took this the supervisor actually slapped one guard for something to do with his tie!
