A conversation with an auto driver...

That day everything was just as usual. I hailed an auto-rickshaw from the road after leaving office and sat inside.

“Chembur,” I announced. And he drove off.

Usually my ride back home is about an hour. So I sat back and figured out what to do. Normally, I read random stuff on mobile or any book if I carry one. I took out my cell phone when the auto driver started –

“Sir, do you smoke?”

I was taken aback by this sudden question. “No, I don’t.”

How to do something we don’t like?

Oh! That overwhelming feeling when you have to do something that you just don’t want to do!

However hard we may try to avoid, there will be such situations. For example, having to attend the wedding of some auntie’s daughter just because our mummy wants it, and we can’t hate it more. Or having to finish an assignment which belongs to our boss, only because he wants us to do it and we don’t want to hamper our impression with him.