Honestly Yours

They say honesty is the best policy. But some policies are not always implemented, are they? There are times when we wish to say something but end up saying something all together different because of one/all of the following reasons: 

We don’t wish to sound RUDE.

We respect our SANSKAARS.

We don’t want the other person to get HURT or OFFENDED. 

While waiting at the airport a few days back and listening to the announcements being made for passengers to board the plane, I wondered what would these announcers be actually feeling from inside while saying the same lines, over and over again with utmost humbleness...

So, while the announcer called out the name of some Raj Sharma 4 times with utmost respect, requesting him to board the particular flight, I wonder how he would be actually feeling from inside...

“Listen Raj Sharma, I was supposed to go for lunch twenty minutes back but thanks to you, I’m still sitting here. This is neither your ancestors’ airlines nor a private jet of yours. So you either get yourself up here or wait for the next flight, which by the way is not before sixteen hours from now. And if you don’t turn up after this announcement as well, I will make sure your baggage gets lost. Thank You.”

I wonder if announcements are made like this at airports, passengers will turn up 4 hours before the scheduled flight!

Delhi Metro has been the National Capital’s lifeline for over a decade now and those who have travelled via Metro will know the announcements made at every station by heart.

Personally, I still haven’t yet figured out why the announcements in English are always made by the lady while the ones in Hindi are done by her male counterpart. Either the lady isn’t good with Hindi or the uncle hasn’t mastered the English language yet.

Anyways, so at every station they announce the name of the station and which way the doors will open. Imagine, if these announcements were done manually, maybe there would come a point where the voice says....

“Next station is.......... Rajiv___ WAIT-FOR-IT____ Chowk, Rajiv Chowk!! You know which way the doors will open so I won’t be wasting my time on that. I also won’t bother with the different routes that are available from here, just ask some random person, bhara pada hai station logon se. There’s also no point of telling you to mind the gap because you people hardly listen. Make sure your pockets are safe, stations like these are like internal exams for the pick pockets. Adios. “

Same goes for our dear operating systems when we are downloading/copying/installing something. Last week I was downloading a movie and at one point it showed 2 years 37 weeks 20 days to go. What it really wanted to tell me was that the dongle had disconnected. The following image also aptly describes my point here. What if while downloading something, this message appeared... 

Lastly how can I leave out the customer care services? We all know the first thing they say is “#@!*^%$#@!#%$&*^*^%$#@$$$#@#@#%^*@ How May I Help You?”

Then there are times when the caller is required to change some settings manually and the person explains (politely) what is to be done. What if they actually want to say...

“Sir phone nahi samajh nahi aata to lete kyu ho? Simple sa chotu sa Nokia lelo. Kyu technology ke peeche pade ho?? Aakhri baar bol ra hu, samajh aaya to theek nahi to main ‘aawaz nahi aa rahi’ keh ke phone rakh dunga.”

Mahatma Gandhi once said, “An eye for an eye will make the whole world blind.”

I wonder what will honesty for honesty make the world.

So I will end this post here. You are free to write some words of appreciation in the comments below, or you can be utterly HONEST!!

Adios.

Until next time...

Take Care :)