I want to go on a bit of a rant. I love going to India and Kolkata – I really do! But, I am sick of it taking two hours to go five miles. Don’t get me wrong, I understand that the country has over a billion people, but citizens there are so confident they simply will not get hit by oncoming traffic – and they have a reason for it too. I have never heard of many people being hit by cars because everyone is so careful. But with that being said, it is like navigating through a maze of corn. 

I remember going to the Kolkata city mall, and having it be the same distance as from my house to my elementary school; that’s less than one mile. I want to know why it took one hour to get there. I swear, it was day when we left, and night when we arrived. People had eaten lunch by then and we were still in the car. With that being said, I think it is so funny how taking a rickshaw – the bicycled ones, not the automated ones – is a faster mode of transportation.

I know this is a petty rant and it isn’t like they can do anything about it. But, you have somewhere urgent to be at nine p.m.? Leave at 6:30 p.m. just in case there is more traffic than usual. And god forbid the animals think that that is the best time to cross the roads too.