My parents wake up on alternate days at 3:00 AM to fill water. Such is the fight for water in the "posh" locality where I live. My "posh" locality also has a huge slum flanking it on one side. Every morning that I go to work...and this is at 7:30 in the morning, mind you... I see a water tanker that comes to "cater to the water needs" of this slum. This morning I saw something that prompted me to utter a string of unmentionable obscenitites and it also prompted some questions.
What I saw was some bleary-eyed slum dwellers yawning and stretching as they came out of their "houses" to fill water from the tanker that was going to arrive in the next couple of minutes.
Prompted the following questions:
1. SO, clearly, with all their education, my parents still need to get up at 3 to fill water while these "denizens of the dungeons" (DoDs for the rest of this entry) stretch out of their homes at 7:30 in the AM when I am running to work!
2. If we so much as water our dying plants, which by the way help maintain the ecological balance, we get HUGE messgages saying don't waste water. When these DoDs "fill" their canisters, thereby spilling half the water on the road -and creating potholes in the bargain - no one says anything.
3. If we litter, we're made to feel guilty about keeping our roads and hence our country clean. When the faeces from these DODs breaks free from the gutters and spills on to the roads that we walk on trying not to faint as we cross them, no one breathes a word. Clearly...breathing wouldn't be possible on the road anyway!
A little ahead, a man working with the team that was laying down the asphalt on the road was filling water from some kind person's house. This guy had two canisters filled with water, yet had the hose on. He was yelling to another helper to get another vessel in which to fill more water. The hose, by the way is still on. The water...flowing freely on the road.
What, you ask me, did I do to save that water. Yelled at him, of course. Did he stop? No, OF COURSE not!
Of course, it's the moral duty of the pillars of our society, read politicians, to work for the downtrodden.
I'd just like for you to read my thoughts above and then to decide who the downtrodden really are. My educated parents who wake up at 3:00 in the AM, thereby jeapordising their health - they both like a lot of our neighbors have started suffering from high BP, people who pay their bills on time. Or these DoDs, who get free water, free land - the slum dwellers in my locality have been alloted place elsewhere, yet have managed to get a stay order from the SC which allows them to stay on - and free electricity - how difficult is it to attach your wires to the poor idiots living in proper homes anyway?
Answers anyone?
What I saw was some bleary-eyed slum dwellers yawning and stretching as they came out of their "houses" to fill water from the tanker that was going to arrive in the next couple of minutes.
Prompted the following questions:
1. SO, clearly, with all their education, my parents still need to get up at 3 to fill water while these "denizens of the dungeons" (DoDs for the rest of this entry) stretch out of their homes at 7:30 in the AM when I am running to work!
2. If we so much as water our dying plants, which by the way help maintain the ecological balance, we get HUGE messgages saying don't waste water. When these DoDs "fill" their canisters, thereby spilling half the water on the road -and creating potholes in the bargain - no one says anything.
3. If we litter, we're made to feel guilty about keeping our roads and hence our country clean. When the faeces from these DODs breaks free from the gutters and spills on to the roads that we walk on trying not to faint as we cross them, no one breathes a word. Clearly...breathing wouldn't be possible on the road anyway!
A little ahead, a man working with the team that was laying down the asphalt on the road was filling water from some kind person's house. This guy had two canisters filled with water, yet had the hose on. He was yelling to another helper to get another vessel in which to fill more water. The hose, by the way is still on. The water...flowing freely on the road.
What, you ask me, did I do to save that water. Yelled at him, of course. Did he stop? No, OF COURSE not!
Of course, it's the moral duty of the pillars of our society, read politicians, to work for the downtrodden.
I'd just like for you to read my thoughts above and then to decide who the downtrodden really are. My educated parents who wake up at 3:00 in the AM, thereby jeapordising their health - they both like a lot of our neighbors have started suffering from high BP, people who pay their bills on time. Or these DoDs, who get free water, free land - the slum dwellers in my locality have been alloted place elsewhere, yet have managed to get a stay order from the SC which allows them to stay on - and free electricity - how difficult is it to attach your wires to the poor idiots living in proper homes anyway?
Answers anyone?
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