Hyderabadi Autowalas

The auto rickshaw drivers in Hyderabad are strange creatures on this earth. I don’t understand why they have put meters in their auto. Whenever we ask them to go anywhere in the city they will stare at us as if we have committed some mistake by putting our steps on their land. It seems as if we are intruders having our pocket full of more valuable foreign currency than its Indian counterpart. Although we look similar to them but how can a newcomer speak like them. Either we need to speak in a strange Hyderabadi Urdu or know Telugu. Now as we all know, Telugu is not an easy language to even understand a few words. Speaking in Deccan Urdu (I mean Urdu with a Hyderabadi Style) is an impossible task for an outsider. Especially if you are coming from cities like Lucknow or Aligarh then you will be ready to give more money than sacrificing your ancestral language. If someone gets ready to go according to your legal demand of starting the meter then this meter will not forget to fool you on the way. Even these gadgets are so intelligent that they understand where they have to stop or where they have to go faster than the auto itself. The traveler ends up arguing with the driver or silently getting looted at his own consent. You do not have any other choice.
When I got down at Kacheguda station I had my confrontation with auto rickshaw drivers first. How intelligent they are in trying to fool people like us. They don’t know that already we belong to the category of Certified Software Fools. They don’t realize that their further attempts will go in vain. But they go on trying and trying and everyday they manage to fool few clever guys. That’s the reason I try to show people that I am a fool but still I get fooled.
Sorry but this is an unstated claim of my cleverness......
I don’t know whether there is a problem with my look or with my voice. Or is it because I am not alone that I look clever? But generally people think vice versa....................................
On the station when they see passengers coming out from the station, their untrained psychological instinct tells them……Ok! The guy is having a family which makes obvious that he needs to go somewhere in an urgent. The next moment they will attack them and this will continue until people get on some vehicle to reach their destination...............................
The driver I got trapped with was a clever guy and his meter never started after we got on his rickshaw. I wanted to get down but he started requesting he won’t charge much. He told fifty bucks but my continuous attempt to leave him which was just an act created a spell on his mind. I paid him thirty bucks when we reached Arastu lodge and left him quickly................................