Long Ago, Faraway – Anniversary of Cab Ride
Posted on | July 13, 2004 | 24 Comments
Wide eyed,I sat inside a yellow-cab ‘space ship’, enjoying its effortless sail up and down the humongous curves of concrete cats, which arched and stretched across an endless city. Before I knew it and much to my delight, our cab/cruiser glided up on one of the feline highway arches. Down below, I could make out the clover-leaf pattern of a mega-highway intersection. (I could recognize it, thanks to a friendly ghost of a boring transport planning lesson that turned up a light in my brain, right in time.) I had to blurt it out, “Whoa…clover-leaf highway intersections do really exist?”
“Oh, they are common and it is not a highway, these are called freeways,” N corrected me. Of course, a free world never stops advertising its virtues, I should have known. Nor did it stop advertising its avocados on FM.
What in the world were avocados? “It’s a buttery fruit, you’ll like it,” N offered his wisdom like
But who cared, with nose squashed against the window and eyes glued to the fleeting scenery I was busy drinking in the newness of the
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July 15th, 2004 @ 10:34 AM
Really? What happens next?
July 15th, 2004 @ 10:34 AM
Really? What happens next?
July 15th, 2004 @ 10:34 AM
Really? What happens next?
July 15th, 2004 @ 1:34 PM
The clover-shaped intersections 🙂 wow. my first trip to US was to alabama, huntsville (*winces* : bad memories associated with that place). and the last leg of flights, was from Memphis to Huntsville, on a smallish plane. That was when i saw those intersections for the first -time. I comprehended the functional marvel that comes with this aesthetically appealing layout, this symmetry, much later.
(I *think* i have heard some avocado commercials – may be its *sympathetic memory* (induced-memory) arising out of ur description here. On some country music station.)
July 15th, 2004 @ 1:34 PM
The clover-shaped intersections 🙂 wow. my first trip to US was to alabama, huntsville (*winces* : bad memories associated with that place). and the last leg of flights, was from Memphis to Huntsville, on a smallish plane. That was when i saw those intersections for the first -time. I comprehended the functional marvel that comes with this aesthetically appealing layout, this symmetry, much later.
(I *think* i have heard some avocado commercials – may be its *sympathetic memory* (induced-memory) arising out of ur description here. On some country music station.)
July 15th, 2004 @ 1:34 PM
The clover-shaped intersections 🙂 wow. my first trip to US was to alabama, huntsville (*winces* : bad memories associated with that place). and the last leg of flights, was from Memphis to Huntsville, on a smallish plane. That was when i saw those intersections for the first -time. I comprehended the functional marvel that comes with this aesthetically appealing layout, this symmetry, much later.
(I *think* i have heard some avocado commercials – may be its *sympathetic memory* (induced-memory) arising out of ur description here. On some country music station.)
July 16th, 2004 @ 12:08 AM
by the way, this posting was quite a read. stylistic changes in ur postings are very interesting. some range.
July 16th, 2004 @ 12:08 AM
by the way, this posting was quite a read. stylistic changes in ur postings are very interesting. some range.
July 16th, 2004 @ 12:08 AM
by the way, this posting was quite a read. stylistic changes in ur postings are very interesting. some range.
July 16th, 2004 @ 9:36 AM
Nice read. Do N and you play ‘You Columbus, me Portuguese’ often 🙂 ?
July 16th, 2004 @ 9:36 AM
Nice read. Do N and you play ‘You Columbus, me Portuguese’ often 🙂 ?
July 16th, 2004 @ 9:36 AM
Nice read. Do N and you play ‘You Columbus, me Portuguese’ often 🙂 ?
July 16th, 2004 @ 9:54 AM
he he i was experimenting, no idea as yet 😉
July 16th, 2004 @ 9:54 AM
he he i was experimenting, no idea as yet 😉
July 16th, 2004 @ 9:54 AM
he he i was experimenting, no idea as yet 😉
July 16th, 2004 @ 9:56 AM
you too have heard an avocado commercial, good, i was thinking i dreamed it up! yeah yeah yeah – the style, i was experimenting, trying to write like a 300 page book.
July 16th, 2004 @ 9:56 AM
you too have heard an avocado commercial, good, i was thinking i dreamed it up! yeah yeah yeah – the style, i was experimenting, trying to write like a 300 page book.
July 16th, 2004 @ 9:56 AM
you too have heard an avocado commercial, good, i was thinking i dreamed it up! yeah yeah yeah – the style, i was experimenting, trying to write like a 300 page book.
July 16th, 2004 @ 11:14 PM
Yeah when we get bored playing ‘Indians’ 😉
July 16th, 2004 @ 11:14 PM
Yeah when we get bored playing ‘Indians’ 😉
July 16th, 2004 @ 11:14 PM
Yeah when we get bored playing ‘Indians’ 😉
August 10th, 2004 @ 10:35 PM
I’m waiting for the first novel, which I hope to get signed. I’m sure it will be one of the best of our era.
August 10th, 2004 @ 10:35 PM
I’m waiting for the first novel, which I hope to get signed. I’m sure it will be one of the best of our era.
August 10th, 2004 @ 10:35 PM
I’m waiting for the first novel, which I hope to get signed. I’m sure it will be one of the best of our era.