If you are one of those people who derive masochistic pleasure in being humiliated in public, Chennai is the perfect place for you. Here are some ways to get high on embarrassment like never before! Warning: you have to be new to this city.
1. Try to negotiate auto fare in front of a whole group of auto annas. The great Indian education system would not have been able to humiliate you as much in 20 years as these guys do in 5 minutes.
2. Go to a Saravanna bhavan or a Hot Chips and ask for a 'Cheese Masala dosa' or 'Schezwan Dosa'! The waiter’s dirty looks will make you wonder if you accidently asked for his great grandmother's ashes.
3. Get a Citibank credit card and tell people about it. It is equivalent to saying; I gave Rs.100 to an autowala let him drive off to bring change. You have been taken for a ride!
4. Show up at a multiplex on a weekend and ask for tickets at the ticket counter!(In Chennai they should have common counters for tickets and popcorn. That way the counters will have something to sell on weekends.)
5. Try to get the bus conductor to return your change by talking to him in Hindi/English. You won't get change. What you get instead is never worth the change.
6. Go to a liquor shop and ask for a bottle of Kingfisher. Just try! You’ll come back home with a bruised ego and a bottle of ‘Bullet Beer’.
7. Call up people in other cities and tell them you have awesome plans for the weekend! Wait a few minutes. By the time their laughter subsides, you will feel that acute pang of embarrassment!
haha, awesome...i agree, its indeed a very depressing place
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