Did YOU Just Buy A Cheap Car?

“Our engineers burned the midnight oil to produce this car,” said the MD as he showed me into his factory in the outskirts of the city, “and after this lockdown, this is just the car for your highly strained pocket!”
“And this car will cost less than a lakh?” I asked.
“Less than fifty thousand!” said the beaming managing director as he took me to the workshop area. “There’s it! The cheap car the whole country wants!”
“It’s beautiful!” I chortled.
“The paint we’ve used is the latest in oven finish technology,” said the MD proudly. “The gloss will retain its sheen even after a month.”
“There must be somewhere you have cut costs to price a model so low” I whispered in disbelief.
“Safety belts with imported buckles!” continued the MD.
“Superb” I said in awe.
“No nonsense seats that will wear out the toughest butt, before wearing itself out!”
“Unbelievable!” I exclaimed.
“Fibreglass bumpers that will not damage the car in front!”
“Nor the car behind!” I shouted with glee.
“Headlights with screw-on-bulbs!”
“Brilliant!”
“Tinted glasses!”
“Awesome!”
The managing director of the automobile company looked at me with unconcealed pride. “This is what the nation has been crying for!” he said. “Our shares will hit the roof!”
“You will be listed on the New York exchange too,” I said.
“People will praise us for being thrifty but nifty,” he said, “they will now have money left to put in their banks!”
“Yes,” I shouted.
“We’ll teach a new global philosophy, that cheap is cool!” laughed the MD as he gave me a high five. “Will you mention this in your column?”
“Ofcourse,” I said.
“Let’s go to my office for some champagne!”
“Let’s take the car for a spin,” I said eagerly.
“A what?” asked the puzzled managing director.
“For a drive,” I explained pleasantly.
“It can’t be driven,” said the MD slowly. “For that you’ll have to install an engine.”
“It doesn’t have an engine?” I asked incredulously.
“What do you expect for fifty thousand rupees?” shouted the MD as he pushed me out of the workshop and onto the road outside. “A car with an engine!”
And as you chuckle, think about how we ourselves are fooled: “Did you light and wave the candle around on Sunday for nine minutes without asking about protective gear for doctors, millions of testing kits for the country, thousands of ventilators which will soon be needed, and how the government was going to handle unemployment, hunger and recession?
Or were you, like the rest, fooled by a fancy car with no engine?

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15 thoughts on “Did YOU Just Buy A Cheap Car?”

  1. What you’ve said is absolutely true. Come to think of this, We’ve all been taken for a jolly good ride!!?

  2. Brilliant example, instead of lighting candle, we had good time of prayer for protection from dreadful viruses. Hope many did that… Hehe

    1. If I do that godi media and Andhe bhakt will call me either desh drohi or terrorist. So why unnecessary take panga

  3. Well put Bob ! I neither lit a candle nor did I switch off the lights !!
    You can fool some of the people all the time ….

  4. A thoughtless voter and a blind follower makes a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.
    But one should never argue with a fool ! He will drag you down to his level and beat you with his experience!

  5. Burning a candle was just solidarity..we are one! The govt is doing it’s best and people are helping each other.Even America has extended aid to India.What is there to criticize…let us do our bit to help

    1. Criticism is essential to look at it from a different perspective and impartial.
      It is a way of creativity

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