R is for Residents

Please do not park your vehicles here (although you can park your homes if you like)!

H is for 'Horn OK Please'

You will never be able to drive on a high-way in India without passing a lorry that has the words 'HORN OK PLEASE' painted artistically on its rear bumper. This is not a challenge - it is a guarantee. One can only assume that this is a method for the drivers of these lorries to politely ask faster vehicles behind them to communicate audibly before overtaking.

Nobody will be able to identify the author of the most prevalent phrase (written in English, mind you) on the rear end of these motorway monsters - nor will anyone be able to make sense of it as a sentence. Nevertheless, we shall all continue to horn ok please.

P is for Picked

Have you ever been picked? Chances are you have and you didn't even know it! This may have happened at stations, at the airport, at school, at work etc. And no, this does not mean that you won a prize or were selected for some particularly wonderful (or heinous) experience. In Hinglish, the word picked refers to the act of picking someone up or giving them a ride to/from (but not limited to) the places listed above.

Text messages may read: "Shall I pick you?" I have at times responded, "For what?" To which the pickers'  replies have varied from, "Not for what, duffer (this word will be covered later), from where" to "for the movie."

Being picked does show generosity of spirit on the part of the picker, if not on the part of the reluctant pickee. Therefore, when asked this I generally tend to refrain from my particular brand of snarkiness and gratefully accept the offer.