Customer, No Care!
This Sunday, when petrol dealers decided to stay at home leaving vehicle owners high and dry along the highways, we ( I, wife, kids and a cousin brother ) were among many who were calling up to the heavens to help our cars push a few miles more before the fuel tank ran dry. The Civil Supplies Corp-operated fuel pumps had also exhausted stock by afternoon, and for the first time since I started driving, we just hoped to see at least a Reliance fuel station somewhere on our way ( someone had told me that they aren’t part of the Sunday Shut Down ). But that was not to be, as the last one (as per the World Wide Web) on our way was somewhere in Alappuzha and we had rode past it already. ( Hope Mr Ambani realises he has a good business opportunity on Kerala’s highways! Go for the kill, dude.) And then, suddenly, the yellow indicator screamed out to me that I was on reserve fuel. Tension started building up and we were making plans to check into a hotel en route and resume journe