Most of the people who don’t travel by plane, make this excuse. Their excuse goes like: “Plane flies up in the air so I am scared of travelling in planes. If you go by trains, and if the train derails at least you can jump out of the train as it is on the land but how can you jump out from plane?” – I can never understand this logic. People having vertigo, cardiac problem or claustrophobia may prefer to travel in trains. But I don’t understand how can people jump out of the running train and be safe? I find it a big lame excuse.
Another reason that I find probable is that the clean and stylish airports, the process of getting the boarding pass (you have to speak in English!), the process of getting your luggage booked for the plane, climbing by escalators and getting in the right departure gate to get in to the right plane and finally travelling by plane might be a problem for those who prefer to stay in the well of their lives. So what could be the best option to blame it on ‘oh I am afraid of travelling in planes’. So that way they have an excuse to save on some money and avoid walking the swanky airports also. But some people are so stubborn to stand by their ground that they won’t even accept a free plane ticket just to prove that they don’t travel in planes.
If you are finding my second probability irrational or a pigmentation of my mind, then let me share a real life story with you.
My brother is very fond of searching out for good food from various places. It’s the time when he was in college and used to have samosa from a very unclean, dark and dilapidated shop. My brother used to claim that the samosa there was the best in the town. Whenever he used to go there he used to find the shop was crowded and mainly daily laborers, rickshaw pullers and cullies used to come and buy food from there. One day my brother asked the shop owner, “ Why don’t you repair the shop and make it look good? You earn so much daily.” Then the shop owner said, “But then all these people will stop coming here.”
I have also seen people who prefer to go to dark and small stores to buy for grocery shopping and avoid well lit A/C retail showrooms like Reliance Fresh, Fine Mart or Big Bazaar even if they charge the same price for the stuff they are buying. They will always argue that the price is higher there and if they see the price is the same then will say that the quality in these showrooms must be bad because they must be covering the money they spent in A/C, decoration and for the lighting of the showroom by giving low quality products in high price. Just another excuse on the similar lines of ‘oh I am afraid of travelling in planes’.
1 comment:
Probably people who do not understand engllish words, it is a good reason... all boils down to vertigo. Problem having vertigo problem often fear of falling and injuring. I hv heard mny peple tellling teh same thing.
For buying stuff from big retail outlets, you mst read books on what and why capitalism. Ur view will change. It cannot be as simple as it is written by the blogger. Hearts that stand by working class willl mostly have such opinion. Hearts that are materialistic will always feel joyous going to big retail outlets. Reaad the pros and cons of FDI. SOme facts may become clear.
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