Desperation would make things look and feel dearer ...

Desperation would make things look and feel dearer ...

A couple of weeks back I had an opportunity to accompany a friend of mine from Thailand and he had been to India on a shorter trip before he returned back to Thailand last Friday night. Whilst chatting about something I had an interesting saying from his mouth which is a kind of variant of a known proverb 'Haste makes waste'. He was telling about the Chennai's autorickshaws. He was telling that whatever be the situation if you even give an iota of 'benefit-of-doubt' to the autorickshaw driver that you are currently in the sense of urgency, the fares would quadruple and you would end up paying through your nose for a distance which should just cost you peanuts otherwise.

We were discussing about the applicability of this autorickshaw observation to other context as well. Take any other occasion for example. When you show the desperation for a certain thing to the service provider/other party, they would, for sure, try to take advantage of the same to advance their materialistic gains. All it needs is a little patience and careful, systematic execution of tasks which would lead to perfection in a cost and time effective manner. We also did discuss this in little brief about our recent post on 'Time slow or fast?'