Why I prefer the Auto Rickshaw...

Ever since Abhishek Mishra cancelled his Ola Cabs booking, he has become a celebrity on Twitter. Had I known the power of a tweet, I could have preempted him many times over...

• Cancelled an Ola Cabs booking because the driver was Rahul. I was afraid, if he oversped the escape velocity would take me to outer space.
• Cancelled an Ola Cabs booking because the driver was Akhilesh. I wasn’t sure if he would travel without his Bua.
• Cancelled an Ola Cabs booking because the driver was Narendra. He would have stopped at each pakoda stall on the way & I prefer samosas.
• Cancelled an Ola Cabs booking because the driver was Arvind. What if he dropped me midway & staged a dharna? (But I did apologise to him.)
• Cancelled an Ola Cabs booking because the driver was Aditya. The encounter would not have been pleasant if he turned out to be from Gorakhpur.
• Cancelled an Ola Cabs booking because the driver was Laloo. Mere paas chaara nahi tha.
• Cancelled an Ola Cabs booking because the driver was Vikas. I wasn’t sure when/if he would arrive.
• Cancelled an Ola Cabs booking because the driver was Shashi. I didn’t have enough dictionaries to decipher what he would have said.
• Cancelled an Ola Cabs booking because the driver was Biplab. I thought his GPS device would have taken us back in time.
• Cancelled an Ola Cabs booking because the driver was Salman. I hate being driven on the pavements.

I now prefer to take the humble auto rickshaw. Because, apart from the above reasons, I prefer Whatsapp!