Irony in a new city

- Guru Ranganathan
After roaming around in kormangala at forum Bangalore, I was looking for an autorickshaw to go to my friends place. And I happen to be from Chennai . Autowallas in bangalore are totally a different breed from Chennai, while autowallas in Chennai crave for their business, these guys are not bothered! to make it clear the scenario is like this:
In Chennai if you ask a auto guy at 4am to take you to Tambaram which is the city end , he would be ready to, but would be greedy too. Where as in Bangalore if you ask a auto guy to take you to St. Johns from Kormangala all at the same time they would say a Big No.
While thinking about this and talking to myself about how they are, I hear an auto guy calling me “Guru, elli hog beku” which means Guru,where do you want to go! I was just startled and automatically a lot of questions were creeping in my mind..How did this Guy know my name, was he a school time friend of mine who dropped out of the school? Was he the guy who I fought with that day when I was drunk? Was he a Guy who was near my house in Chennai? Lots of questions… I sat in the rick and on the go he grumbled about the traffic , the pub culture e.tc., and finally he dropped me.. I did not ask how he knew my name because the conversations which we had did not show that he knew me and something stopped me from asking.

I came to my friends place and told him about this strange Autodriver who knew my name, He in turn laughed and laughed and made me look like a joker …That is when I came to know “Guru” is a word used to address people in bangalore.

Strange But true!!