2009/6/1 Kiran Jonnalagadda <[email protected]> > You know what? These aren't the kind of adventures I want to have. I want > my regular routine to be utterly predictable, and if this involves moving to > a society that has dreary routine figured out, so be it.
Funny - this was the reason I gave for staying on in India and never applying for an H1 or L1 visa when my co asked me to. I preferred the short trips to the US on a B1. Most of my travels were to Seattle and as I've said earlier, I just suffocated in that city. Everything is too perfect and the regular routine is so figured out, you don't even have to think. There is a downside though - if you waver from that well laid out routine, you're so screwed you'll feel there is some grand conspiracy on (which is one of the reasons why I belive nobody who has lived a significant part of their life in India would never think up a movie idea like The Matrix). Funny story follows - On a very chilly December evening in Seattle, I was waiting for a bus to get back home. I was changing routes, so was at one of those large park and ride buildings where there are multiple bus bays. While waiting, I saw the bus I was waiting for arrive but stop at an another bay from where it was supposed to stop. In my hurry to get warm, I jumped on to that bus. Unfortunately, the bus was going in the opposite direction and I had to get off at the last stop. Then it started snowing, and for anybody who has lived in Seattle knows, the city grinds to a halt as soon as there is even a few inches of snow. Boring details apart, I ended up waiting for almost an hour in the biting cold, changing two routes before finally getting home almost 4 hours later when the usual commute time is around an hour. What would have saved me that day is believing that save a nuclear holocaust, the bloddy bus always stops at the bay it is supposed to stop at. Kiran
