Mumbai - An Addiction

These days when you roam around the roads of Mumbai you notice the huge electronic dashboards put up by the RTO I assume that display messages encouraging driving discipline, or instilling fear of the rod as they show the count of number of drivers who are thrown to the gallows for drunken driving, etc. etc.

But RTO sure caught me by surprise with one of its messages:

“Go when Green, and stop when red. Unless you are eating a water melon”!!!

Now humour is the last thing I expected from RTO. When you go to the Mumbai RTO, with the utterly unpaved road which forms atrociously gooey mud puddles in the rains. And with the throngs of daily applicants for licenses, and the endless documents for which someone must have felled an entire rain forest… humour is the last thing that strikes you about the RTO.

And yet they had that water melon message. I wonder how many levels of approval that innocuous message must have gone through. How many “traditional” officers would have opposed putting an unorthodox message like that for public display.

Or maybe I am just thinking too much.

Labels: Mumbai, RTO, signal