Ravia Gupta
Talk about Privilege, those who have it, can’t do without it and those who don’t have, simply can’t move ahead without it!!
Sure everyone one craves for it, uses it, overuses it and sometimes even misuses it. Privilege for sure comes in many shades. It’s not just the use of red beacons by bureaucrats and politicians with or without flashers, but also the most common and easiest way to flaunt your status is the STICKER on your car!
It costs nothing and saves hell. Going by the label rather the STICKER on your car you are sure to escape a lot of trouble, save some parking bucks, challan in case of some traffic violation and certainly find a way out for your car, if nothing else.
Besides, it doesn’t even matter whether you belong to any of these professions like Army, Airforce, Navy, Police or Press, after all who has the time and most importantly the courage to check or question your credibility? And come to the benefit of it, by mere putting a STICKER it gives a lot of people an unshakable sense of importance, boasts their morale, fills them with an elite feeling which looks down upon other road users and above all shields them from traffic cops.
Interestingly, one fine day traffic police in the city thought of calling it a ‘traffic violation day’managed to find some place under a shady tree, across a canal, providing them with much relief, so to speak, from this hot and humid summer, decided to act tough with traffic violators, but mind you without any stickers attached.
Violators were many, on this not so heavy traffic area, but suddenly to my surprise, this team of around eight police men, along with their new SHO, were extremely busy performing their otherwise routine job and also adding chaos to otherwise a non-traffic area, stopped me for not being so Privileged and also not wearing the seat belt. Of course I was reminded traffic cops don’t issue any warning sorts; after all they are not ‘school teachers’but love surprise checks!
But why just today and not every day, why just the poor not so Privileged ones and why not the Privileged ones? Will it not be wonderful for us to cloak ourselves in the warm feeling that comes free with a world that respects you without any ‘stickers attached’? Anyhow, heard this right– “Everyone has a right to be stupid; some people just abuse the privilege.”
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