The write-up is not even remotely connected to our festival of colours. This is a piece which many of our bikers and two-wheeler mates would relate to.
It is an event that happened in Chandigarh-the city beautiful, where cops have a reputation of being stringent and strict to the core for trespassers of the traffic laws. We think that we are so smart and jugaadu that we can con even the smartest guy around, but that is where our confidence trudges past the line and makes us pay.
Wasting no time and coming to the sequence of events that happened with my dear friend. It so happened that at one traffic signal my friend, who by the way thinks that wearing a helmet is a waste because his hair gets all messed up, was stopped by a big burly traffic cop. As a proper procedure that we’ve been following through time immemorial, he asked the cop to be easy on him and let him go. But that wasn’t a good time as it was morning time and the shop had just opened up for the cop.
The cop asked him if he wanted a challan or wanted a relatively easy alternative. The friend knowing very well that getting a challan would mean a big waste of time and irritable asked him to blurt out the sum he wanted. The cop asked him for three hundred bucks, which he also knew would be bargained tooth and nail by the friend. Every cop knows that there are a few set reasons that have been so frequently used that it’s just better to say-“Bhaiyaa, make it half already of what you said or even less!”
The cop gave in to his pleas and released him like a free bird in the sky. As the friend was leaving, he just asked him that if any other cop stops him what would he tell them to get rid of the same exhausting and irritating procedure? The cop replied, ”Tell them...Aaj holi hai! They’ll get the point.”
Seeing this as a very unlikely event the friend started his journey again. I don’t know ( neither does he) as to what he ate for breakfast as his day was turning out to be a nightmare. He was stopped on the very next barricade. With the least expectancy of getting away he told them confidently, “Bhaisaab, aaj holi hai!”. The lucky bastard was let go!
Now the problem arises when the lucky dog thinks that every day is his day. That’s what happened to him. The very next day he thought that he had the key to all the check posts in Chandigarh-“Aaj holi hai!”.
The guy was held up in the very first check post which he thought he would manage to pass through without raising much eyeballs. The imposing structure of a regular sikh cop came near to him and began the regular procedure of extorting money that is discussed above. My mate with all his confidence just uttered those three magical words-“Aaj holi hai!”.
The sikh cop just burst out laughing making the friend feel very small and timid. He just coughed out the words while laughing as if he had heard a hilarious joke, ”Beta ji, Aaj holi nahi hai aaj diwali hai!”.
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