Bad Sad Mad Fad

I stay away from commenting about fashion trends. But what I saw deserves a mention. I am unable to stop lamenting about the preposterous ideas people get.

Maruti Swift is one car that’s close to my heart. Why? Not really because I consider it worth every penny. And neither does its looks manage to mop off other cars in the market. It’s just that this is one decent car that has taken birth at a time I started eyeing the car market.

Since this bloody car is close to my heart, I keep noticing every damn Swift on the road. Today I encountered one such Swift. I was petrified to see bullet holes on its body. Quite a lot of them, in a random fashion. These holes are like the holes that the “Liquid Metal” man in Terminator II gets when he is shot at.

I took a closer look and then things started to get apparent. These are not holes. These are just some sort of crazy accessories that you stick to the body of the car.

Maybe if I get to like this kind of fashion and I have a lot of money, I will go to a plastic surgeon and get a hole surgically made on my forehead. I’ll be the man who got shot in the head and lived to tell the tale.

But as of now, even an act of ear or nose piercing will be attributed to manifestation of madness. So, the sight of this car with artificial bullet-wounds hurt my feelings.