Friday, August 3, 2007
Air conditioner (AC): Hazard to community living
This is not an environment related blog so does not talk about the power guzzling effect of ACs but how in a physical sense they act as a hazard to community living. Like all things the hazards too can be termed internal as well as external taking the analogy from human habits that always have an internal and external effect.
While taking a walk after dinner the age-old saying "Every drop counts" became a reality for me. ACs notoriously ejaculates water at the rate of 90 millibarrels per hour. Had this been crude (God only knows how) Delhi would have been a part of the OPEC. But too bad here all this is water and even worse this is drained on the common paths outside the houses. Delhi having only two seasons very hot and very cold, in the very hot season these demons (ACs) is used akin to the machines in a plastic factory. They being used continuously results in canals and sometimes streams (indicating Gupta uncle went for a cheap AC) on the paths. The earth continues its revolution but the heat in Delhi refuses to subside, the stream of water demarcates its course. Being water after all it faces the same problem that as the Naini Lake of Nanital and the Ana Sagar Lake of Ajmer. Algae begin to develop this time on the ground though (hopefully my exaggeration had not led you to believe that the stream was deep too). So from the cement like colour of the path (I am not colour blind but could not think of what colour to call the society road) it turns into an ugly green. I believe that this is the only time the serenest of all colours, green is called ugly. Making the road ugly was just one facet of algae, it also makes the road slippery as its coefficient of friction is –1.382(yes its negative and I am not sure about the 3rd decimal). But thanks to this property the local orthopeadics is having a flourishing practice. It started long time back but gained light when Rastogi aunty, first her walking stick and instantaneously she slipped on the path because of the algae. Shaw uncle became overtly careful after the incident but refused to change the course of his walk in the same way as he had refused to change his opinion that Nehru not Manmohan Singh is the reason behind 9+ GDP growth of India. He tried to negotiate the algae as Kimi tried to negotiate the chicane on the 13th turn of the Monaco GP but too bad both overdid it. Kimi hit the wall and uncle stepped into the hedge and was the patient in waiting at the orthopeadics. When 3-yr old daughter of the hot-shot lawyer slipped because of the green demon on road created by Malhotras AC he sent a notice to them and asked for compensation. Malhotra ji being a typical punjabi business man used the tit-for-tat technique and made his son chintu slip on the algae created by the lawyers AC. The lawyer accepted defeat and Malhotras were happy and even more was little chintu as because of the bruises he had an excuse of not going to school for 3days.
How happy was the stray bitch of the colony and Vig uncle when Rita aunty and her family moved into the vacant house below his. Vig uncles long awaited dream of peeping into the house below his just got fulfilled and the bitch got loads of food thrown out by Rita auntys tweenaged son (tweenaged is the latest group of people to be explored by writers to fill up the supplements of the newspaper). This guy was typical of the kids of his age, spiked cloured hair (a shade darker than his moms’). Always in his capris and branded t-shirt and an ipod with some hip-hop music full of obscenities perennially plugged on to his ears. He just could not live without his AC so that was ON for 16 hrs a day (for 8 hrs he was in school, which had AC too). I once heard him explaining to his mom while he was munching on ruffle lays and sipping a chilled sprite that the reason he does not go out to play football is that the ground is not air-conditioned. Business freaks sense an opportunity here as I believe this is the next big thing after Biotech as air-conditioning the grounds will require some good work. The stray bitch for the first time enjoyed this summer as with the food she also enjoyed the damp ground (no marks for guessing why the ground was damp all day) to laze around all day just outside the newly inhabited house. But as time passed both the bitch and Vig uncle came face to face with their woes. As the rains came and so did the heat for the bitch but she was in for a surprise. She was refused to be humped and considered an outcast as the algae had turned her green on the sides and in the Dog & Bitch society this was considered sinister. How bitchy the dogs were as they spread the word around and even dogs from far away lands refuse to hump our colonies stray bitch. As the notion gained ground of people slipping and sliding on the algae the number of people using the path below Vig uncles’ house went into a downward circuit. Too bad they did not care for his evening time pass and the salutations and chitchat he had enjoyed for years came to a sudden standstill. As its said nature is a great leveler and so it proved to be for the bitch and Vig uncle.
This was the external effect will write the internal effect too in some time (do not expect it to be a la Deepak Chopra type piece on spritualism).
This is the first time I have written something for Public viewing, appreciation (typically scorpion of me) and constructive criticism (typically diplomatic) would be very well received. Those who found this unbearable please do not write obscenities here as this is for public viewing (smart huh!!).
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3 comments:
Well done vaibhav, atleast i am not a contribution to this necessary evil in its external catastrophe, waiting for internal effects....
Nice..well expressed
!!!??waiting for next.
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