citrus

my sojourn at the passport office was laughable at the least :).. brilliant as i am i ended up there at 11:45 [the office closes at 12:00].. i stood in line for about 10 mins contemplating whether or not i should bother wasting my time .. there were about 50 people ahead of me and the line looked like it was moving at the rate of 10 people/15mins... which meant i would be waiting for about forever.. so anyway i stood around a little longer when this police man or whatever he was comes out and starts to very rudely shoo people out of the way because some official had to take his car out and leave.the man even pushed a few of the male persons out of the way .. if he had touched me i would have screamed and yelled bloody murder simply because he was rude and annoying. so i was standing sufficiently out of the way, when this policeman decided that it was his moral duty to blare into my face that i should get out of the way. if my kannada was any better i would have shouted back at him.. but it isn't so i just kept quite and settled for dirty looks [which he did not miss]. i then got back into line only to find two minutes later [at 12:00 sharp] punctual as our government offices are, that the gates were firmly locked shut and everyone was asked to go home. so [fortunately for me, as i didn't want to stand there and wait anyway] i went away with a not much improved impression of our government servants.