Speaking about dust,

there is a lot of it in Bangalore. Approximately 50% of all that dust lives on my car! I am not joking, I think my car winsthe dirtiest car competition hands down at my office. It is not completely my fault, though. All those folks with glistening clean cars, come to Bilekahalli, or for that matter any area under Bommanahalli CMC once. These are areas that have no idea what asphalting is! You will see your car, irrespective of what color it is, quickly turning into a uniform dust color. Some people even write their names in the dust on my car when it is parked!

But it is not all that bad. Dust on the car has it's own advantages. First of all, safety. Miscreants are far more likely to tamper with a shining clean car than one that forces them to take a bath after touching it ;-) Even two-wheeler riders, who normally don't think twice about creaming a car in their quest to get on the footpath, keep distance from my car. Secondly, dust hides the little scratches and dents that are inevitable on all cars in the city. There is another advantage I have realized recently. Many drivers drive with high beam on. If such a vehicle is directly behind your car, especially if that vehicle is a bus or a bigger car, the light from that vehicle shines so brightly in all your rear-view mirrors that you wish you were blind! Tinting the rear windshield solves this problem partially, but nothing like having a layer of dust on the back windshield to protect you! Now I like it so much, I don't want to disturb the dust layer on my back windshield, even accidentally. Come see my car for yourself if you don't believe. While at it, please try not to disturb the fine layer of dust I have meticulously built up!