Delhi is full of gas..

I wouldn't think there are many places that have both humans, and fuel being doled out by the kilo. It is thus that I looked up to count my lucky stars, promptly getting blinded by the midday sun, when I saw a sign that said, Gas - 21.70 Rs/Kilo.

To put it in context, for all you lovers of Mr.Bean jokes sniggering away, Delhi, by the account of one fine young gentleman, who provides excellent company from Noida to Gurgaon, and even drives a cab, has 85% vehicles running on CNG. That's a LOT. Being of the shrewd, calculating, 16teraflops-and-counting-processor types, I asked him, "How much mileage doth thou revievest?".

What I wanted to as, is of course, obvious. But thanks to the CBSE's terrific Hindi teaching pattern, where we learn to speak like we're at a Hindi dubbed high-tea bash, thats how the poor fellow heard it. In any case, he was sporting enough to smile and say, "8 kilos to 100 kilometers". Some frenetic processing ensued where I determined the square root of infinity, before concluding that this was, in short, aces. No wonder then that I spent 40 mins waiting in queue at a CNG bunk.

Another interesting observation... the CNG pumps are all automatic. Meaning you can plug it into your cylinder thingy, and keep holding the button. Some complex thermodynamics ensures that the thing doesn't blow up or overflow. In fact, even saw a few readings do a small dance routine at 5.67 kg... 5.66kg... 5.67 again... ah yes 5.6 at last.

One last, completely rad thing I noticed. Heard of how the sun never set on her Majesty's empire and all that jazz? We'll, for a democracy we aren't doing that bad. The sun rises at 5.30ish and sets at 19.30ish. Dinner is served at 21.30. I rest my case.

Like Obelix would've admirably put it, "These Delhi-ites are crazy!". But darned good looking, too. So we forgive them, as we have forgiven so many others, and just thank the Sun god for those extra hours of light.