Monday, September 24, 2007

Auctions

Have you ever noticed the auctions that regularly happen in Hall 3 (IITK)? Its just an passing incident to most, but if thought a little more than naught and little less than a lot, then they turn into a very interesting "occurrence" that in the true Freudian spirit reflects deeply upon the conditions of the individuals in the society.

Imagine this:

You are comfortably sitting in your living room at your home when owing to some compelling and not-hard-to-contrive reason you have to go out of the house to get something or the other. You go out on your bicycle. The transaction at the shop takes a little more than your RAM decay time and while coming back you have in your mind only a vestige of the Platonic idea of a bicycle which bothers you the least. Being of a philosophically perverse mind, you walk home with great ideas in your mind, some of them probably about the famous scientists who were so absent minded that they had to ask their co workers whether they had had dinner or not. D'oh. How stupid.

Nevertheless, you are back at your home and upon finding that you don't have the cycle with you. What is your reaction?

1. Rush back immediately to fetch it.
2. Reluctantly walk back preferably with an ill fated company.
3. Conveniently forget about the cycle for a period long enough that it stops to be a problem tp you and then finally, when the cycle has become the shop keeper's problem wholly, watching it being auctioned.

After all, he must have been a great man who had said that there are very few problems in the world that cannot be solved by optimal amounts of ignorance.

Worse, buying it off the shopkeeper for nearly a thousand rupees.

Musically yours,
Ut.

PS: I am planning to record how many people actually come to reclaim their cycles after the threat that their cycles will be auctioned is made public.

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2 Comments:

At 7:27 AM, Blogger Chintalagiri Shashank said...

How do you plan on recording that number? There's a lot of people who take back their cycles without informing anyone :P

 
At 8:25 AM, Blogger musically_ut said...

Well, most of them generally have to get a clearance from the Hall Office before they get around to taking the cycles away ... and there, I can get them, just like catching the culprits of wall dirtying on camera. -evil smile-

 

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