21 February,2010 02:14 PM IST | | Sorabh Pant
Sorabh Pant lists Top 10 Indian street dialogues
1. "Five Minutes, be there in five minutes." I just left my house in Worli for Vashi, but Marty McFly will pick me up on his time machine this time.
2. "Corruption is killing our society." And, also helping me get my passport/ visa/ MTNL connection/ degree in hypocrisy on time.
3. "All politicians are crooks." That's why on Election Day, I sit at home with my scotch bitching about the system.
4. "Yeh saara system hi bekaar hai." Except when it helps me get tax breaks and 11 servants.
5. "This country is going to the dogs." Primarily, because someone like me is part of it.
6. "It's all the government's fault." Yes, that my wife leaving me because I cheated on her could have been averted with a reduction in fuel prices.
7. "I could have got it much cheaper" And, by 'cheaper' I mean going to a grey market in Bhopal where we fight off naxals to purchase smuggled goods and save Rs 100.
8. "Western ideals are against our traditions." Look, I don't have the body to pull off a short skirt or any garment, so why the hell should you?
9. "(Whine) No one gives me attention (Whine) (Whine)" This whining usually leads to yet another political party catering to a really specific class of people being formed, adding to the 376 parties that are all already confusing our landscape.
10. "Let's protest by breaking the windows of that bus." I may use that bus regularly myself, but since I am not doing so right this second, who gives a s''t?
