Just a month back, I saw one of the most hilarious sights I’ve witnessed of late. It was like, as soon as I witnessed that funny sight, I just cracked into a smile—In fact looking at the intensity of hilariousness involved in the sight, anyone ( may be even I) should have burst out laughing aloud. But the fact that I was travelling in a public transport and had to be keep that social awareness etiquette intact, I didn’t dare to burst out laughing aloud. Though later on, I repented, having contemplated that I should have loudly laughed about it; that way people travelling with me too would have got some reason to lighten up their day. But somehow that thought- What will people say; how will they react, if I just laugh out loud”- this thought refrained me from laughing out loud.

Anyways, so, what I saw was something like this— there was this posh, sophisticated joint of Papa John’s Pizza in this up market neighborhood. And just imagine— there was a bullock cart standing right outside this joint. Yeah… that is the hilarious sight I’m talking about. Now, to a cynical, not-easily- shedding off smiles- what’s the big joke about it type thinkers, this won’t be such a funny sight after all. But for me, a layman who’s otherwise leading a drab, monotonous, routine kind of life, and who’s always on a look out for gathering in his memory bank such tickling the funny bone type sights or episodes- this indeed was that one sight which brought an instant smile on my face.

The first thought that raced my mischievous mind was “What on earth is a bullock cart doing outside a pizza joint; and that too—Papa’s John’s!—Voila! The bullocks must be really well off…And top it all, look at their guts!…Of all the diet being set out for them, they are settling on a crunchy pizza, baked right out of the ovens of one of the most indulgent pizza parlors of the city!… And then I thought “Have these bullocks stopped eating fodder, or any other related cattle food, which they are supposed to be having?” And why so? Just then I thought, I should bring this to the notice of Laluji, just to keep him in loop about the changing dietary patterns of cattle!!!!…

The otherwise conditioned mind would have anticipated some plush cars coming out and going in the parlor parking lot, or maybe even swanky bikes with college goers doing the rounds of the pizza parlor— these wouldn’t be such out of the place sights. But suddenly out of the blue, when I saw a bullock cart cozily standing outside the joint, I couldn’t help but control my blissful emotions!

And then another naughty thought crossed my mind—had the bullocks ordered the Pizza themselves? Or maybe their owner might be a hungry chap, I thought, and he might have ordered one for himself, maybe one for his bullocks!!

One curious part of my brain asked me to get down the bus and walk back a few steps near the pizza parlor, just to see what on earth that bullock cart was doing there. In fact, I was all set to get down at the next stop. But then I abruptly stopped. I gathered my thoughts and stopped there and then. I instead decided to store in my permanent memory bank this funny sight which I’d witnessed; rather than unnecessarily wanting to remain fully informed about everything around. Maybe going to the roots of the million dollar question lurking my mind might not have brought much humor to the situation, as much as the amount of humor I gathered after having seen that sight just for a few seconds. Having thought so, I continued travelling, and got down where I was slated to; but only after experiencing and smiling end to end to one of the most hilarious sights.

And then, I quietly said to myself “Look, even the bullocks are trying to capture the best of both the worlds—the urban lifestyle as well as their native upbringing”.

And thus I walked on, in this urban milieu, trying to figure out, how I can imbibe the best of both the worlds…..

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