The shutting down of our car pool looks very imminent, since one member has gone to Canada for a 2 month official trip and another has put in her papers. This has effectively left Raj and myself as the only assured travellers.
But this week, one other colleague of ours, Raghavan, has joined us. He had a nasty accident recently and returned to work this week, after around a month's leave.
Anyways, to cut a long story short, our car pool this week has been an all-men affair. And we could maintain our decency only for so long. Like just 2 days. Last evening, our conversation somehow veered itself into the swear words territory.
We were exchanging notes about how people from different parts of out state prefer to use one particular swear word over another. Turns out, the same body part is referred to with different names (k and p) and prefixes (m and p), based on where you grew up learning it.
I also told them about my great story about how I mis-pronounced a scooterette manufactured a long time back by Bajaj. Naturally, it had both Raj and Raghavan in splits. In fact, another friend of Raj, joined us in the car today and he too was given the update. Obviously, it impressed him quite a bit!
All in all, just to be able to travel in the car and use real swear words instead of the dignified "idiot" or "paithiyakaaran" or "porambokku" or even "naai", has given me more pleasure during the drive.
But like they say, all good things must end and as per the current projections for July, we are all going to return to the company bus.
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