You know you're in Pune when...

Hey guys!

Its been quite a while since I last wrote something. I recently shifted to Pune. And as a fact, we all know how difficult it is to adjust to a new place and therein to a new life. I spent almost a week cribbing about how different this place is from Mumbai and how I miss being in Mumbai. Though the later part still stands true, once you get used to it, its not that bad here. Well anyway, there have been a few small things that I noticed during my stay here,which infact prompted me to write this post.


YOU KNOW YOU'RE IN PUNE WHEN-

1) You ask someone about a building you're trying to find and they tell you they don't know where it is; And you take some 10 steps forward and find the building staring right at you.

2) You get used to waiting in a 2 km long traffic jam and everybody around you barely even notices the traffic.(Yep! It is kinda like an eternal truth that people have accepted.)

3) And you feel blessed on that one day when you reach your destination in less than 15 minutes, which otherwise takes more than an hour.

4) You adopt a new hobby of staring at the number plates of cars and bikes and judging which part of Maharashtra/India they belong to. (Blame it on the excessive wait in the traffic. :P )

5) People on two wheelers are GODs and are given way by even the car and bus drivers.

6) The cost of reaching to some cafe (by an auto-rickshaw) exceeds the total bill you incur at the cafe,

7) The auto-rickshaw drivers charge you triple the actual fare and try to rationalize it by saying, "Return bhada nahi milta, Saheb." ( "We don't get another passenger while returning,Sir.")

8) You find Misal Pav more commonly found than Vada Pav (Oh! How I miss Mumbai.)

9) Everybody, right from the auto-driver to your boss(most probably), speaks Marathi. (So, better learn it while you can.)

And last but not the least,

10) The pizza place guy tells you that he cannot take your order because the address you mentioned was difficult to find and he'd have to give you the pizza for free if he did not reach there within 30 minutes(company policy). :D :D :P :P

But despite all this, Pune isn't all that bad. Every city has its flaws and its charms. There is so much that is just amazing about Pune. But I will keep that part for later.

Thats all folks, Keep reading. Till then, adios!