#55wordstory: Themes: Week 9

Theme: Platonic

It was a small seed at first. Too small to even notice. But soon, the roots took their place. With every passing day, the roots grew stronger. Uprooting them now was impossible. This small seed of 'Doubt' grew so big, that it stopped differentiating between physical relationship and platonic friendship and ended a beautiful journey. 

Theme: Noise
Rajeev: "I am buying lots of noise making crackers for my son Sid. After all Shor Na Machaya toh Mazaa Nahin Aaya"

Sail: "That is good but ask him to be careful. I still feel sad for Rahim. After last year's incident, the deafening sound of silence is the noise that bothers him a lot." 

Theme: Angst
It was a momentary lapse of judgment and Rajan's short-temper, which led him to hit Roshita.

She went to another room and closed it to decide her next set of action between her sobs.

The choice was between calling the police or forgiving Rajan.

She decided for the latter by hanging herself from the fan. 

Theme: Brazen
Having always been a topper Derek didn't want to miss it this time either. But this time it was different.

He was caught cheating. Instead of being brazen about it, he broke down. The death of his mother a month back didn't allow him to prepare and his first attempt at cheating had fallen flat.

Theme: Furtive
Sitting at a cafe in Paris, Raul kept giving furtive glances to Lolita while sipping his cup of coffee.

Anyone noticing this would have thought Raul to be shy and not being able to walk across and speak to her.

No one knew that Raul was a detective hired to keep a watch on Lolita.

Traffic Jams are our Birth Right

Getting stuck in bad traffic is our birth right and so escaping it is just not possible. 

Over and above this, if one stays in Delhi and works in Gurgaon, then you can imagine that such a person enjoys this fundamental right every day that he goes to work. 

What really messes this up is when traffic signals stop working and traffic police take charge. I have seen this on every occasion that such a thing happens, the backlog of traffic just increases across all roads. 

This made me thinking - What is the kind of courses that a traffic policeman goes through before he is given his posting? What are the subjects that he studies to be able to manage traffic? Has anyone of you ever paid attention to this aspect when you see a traffic policeman on the road? I doubt that we have even reflected about this for a moment. After all, we are always in a hurry and rush to reach somewhere that while he is an authority that exists whom we follow; he has never been of more consequence for us to really think about it. 

I also would not have given a thought to it but getting stuck in regular traffic jams was making me wonder on where lies the root cause of the problem. That is when I went to my marketing experience and tried to compare vehicles to stocks. 

Eureka! I had my answer. Or maybe I had a question in my mind, which needs an answer and hopefully an action. The question in my mind, which I believe is also the answer is: 

Is Supply Chain Management a part of their course? Supply Chain Managers are supposed to ensure movement of goods in the right manner and at the right pace ensuring that goods reach their destinations on time and there is no back log of stocks at the factory. 

If that is the case, then shouldn’t supply chain management be a mandatory course for all the traffic police across the country. After all, their job is also to ensure that the vehicles move at the right pace and they reach their destinations on time without creating a back log on the roads. 

I do hope that this blog reaches out to a few traffic police people, who can think and reflect on what I just wrote and see how this can be implemented. 

Ironically, this is a blog that should be written on a week day after an arduous journey, but unfortunately, it is once again the traffic jam that does not allow me to reach home on time to put a blog like this on a week day and so I had to manage it on a weekend.