Their way of crossing the street!

Delhi has the widest roads in India. In simpler term, the best roads. But like entire India, one thing is common in Delhi. The roads are not only meant for people and their vehicles, it is also for the animals. Generally two types of animals are mostly found, one is the cow and other is the dog. Every day while going to office I spot quite a few cows and dogs crossing the busy streets. You must be wondering, what’s new in this? We all see animals on Indian roads, its common. I agree. But I want to point out the difference in their way of crossing street.
A dog moves swiftly. You will find him waiting for the traffic to be a little light and once it finds the front stretch a bit empty, it runs like a Cheetah. It runs hard until it’s on the other side of the road. No problem caused to the drivers. No problem caused to the people around. The operation is over in a jiffy. Like the Rapid Action Forces, swift and fast. Why do they run so fast? It fears been run over. After all it does not have the body to scare away drivers. A cow has that. If your car hits a cow, you are in trouble. No one cares for the stray dog.

Now how does a cow move? The Cow’s movement is totally different from the Dog. The Cow has a big body and is blessed with eternal bliss. I have never seen a Cow moving around worried, tensed. Bindas. Now how does it cross a street? One step at a time. It looks towards the destination and ventures out. I have seen it to be a little careful when buses or trucks move. Other vehicles are no cause of worry. One step at a time, it crosses the street least bothered about the running traffic. Daredevil Akhsay Kumar animalified (personified). Sometimes to make matters worse, it stops. The traffic stops too. After all it’s not a dog. You cannot just run it over and say it was just a Dog. So you wait and honk the horn. “Hat hat, jah jah”, people shout. No effect. The cow remains as it is. Soon it starts urinating and then the famous Cow dung comes out. Chhop Chhop. Then somebody gets down from the car and hits it at its back. It moves a bit, more hitting, more steps and soon it’s out of the street. This is the way the cow crosses the street. You will never see it run. One step at a time is the mantra of its life.

Our government must immediately recruit some traffic police for directing this animal traffic. And I am sure our traffic police will be efficient in this. But they might simply not agree to do this as cows and dogs do not have money with them. Their Challan business will not flourish. Hope Sheela mam does something.