traffic jam

its pretty strange how weather can effect EVERYTHING!

i was stuck in a traffic jam today for the first time on my way to work.
Background:
i travel by a rickety bus for around one hour to reach office. The usual scenario is like this...
70% of the people are catching up on their last bits of sleep before another dreary day at work
20% are trying to read the newspaper
8% just listen to the radio
2% think about various things, like what they should have said when so-snd-so said that, how the dinner was yesterday, what work is lined up today, methods of poisoning the whole RnD dept etc...
but by and large 100% of the people are in a semi crabby state of mind.

So today when we settled into what looked like a never ending traffic jam, i was curious to see what would everybody do....
but the weather was more than perfect, - it was a little clowdy, a slight cool late october breeze, and the whole world looked light blue....

and the bus transformed!
people jumped out of the bus to go for a walk, smoke a bit, a few started making plans for the bus to take a detour and never reach office, a few bumped up the volume of the radio... jokes about delhi traffic etiquette

Everybody was almost disappointed when the traffic cleared, and the day was back to normal again!