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The curious case of missing bicycles

                 “Early bird gets the worm” goes a saying. So I was trying to be that early bird for the past 2 days being so early to work discovering how it feels to be early as I have always been a latecomer right from my schooldays.Apart from the weird looks from my office security and constant teasings from my colleagues on my strange behaviour there is something which I felt quite annoying the last two days. The unusual traffic at the same time same place for 2 consecutive days. Being a hasty person I am, first day it was so easy for me to vroom amidst the vehicles and ignore the reason as usual but today I was quite curious to find out the reason for the unusual traffic and it was so obvious that parents were busy driving their kids to school after summer vacation. I was quite surprised not to find any one student on the road. Either they were occupying the pillion seat or inside cars or vans.Not a single student was driving a bicycle or walking to school or not even using the public transport. Not generalising the total student community in anyway but just expressing the real situation I witnessed today. Not to forget, the above scenario was around the most posh school of the city so there is always room for exceptions not to become examples. Anyways the point of the post is what happened to the bicycles? Has it become so obsolete for the students? There is always an unexpressable pleasure and feel of pride and self reliance when we drive our own vehicle. So that is the first attidude that the students must be taught but here we have come to a point to ignore the most obvious. Not here to whine for any reason because there is no need actually. Amidst facebook and all the so on so things to destroy the childhood they have always managed to exponentially increase the number of state toppers every year and all the remarkable acheivements in every field. So it is quite safe to assume that there is a balance between social life and personal life.Coming to the point, We have abandoned cycles as a mode of transport. Even though the fuel prices have sky rocketed, we still find it absolutely insulting to ride a cycle to our destinaion.We would rather spend money on Orbitrek than riding a cycle to office. Its ironical how that obsolete vehicle to be rode for schools and office is considered to be the most stylish vehicle if you decide to cycle on the beach in the evenings.

Curiosly,

Aswini
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