A few days ago I found out that tea shop conversations can be so enlightening. People discuss the topics you least expect them to and they seem so knowledgeable at it. This occurred when one of my friends took me to a tea shop near tambaram. There were many others who seemed to be drinking tea, while a couple of them, it appeared were there only for reading newspapers. These two looked like they hardly know each other, but somehow they were wiling to share their world-shattering ideas. One of them, a slightly older guy said-“These Martian probes should be stopped, they shouldn’t be allowed anymore” looking at the news about a space probe landing on Mars. He then added “It’s such a complete waste of public money”
The other guy nodded affirmatively and said “Yes and that too when we know all about Mars, we know no life can possibly exist there” Then he added as an afterthought” Though it seems dry ice exists there”
The first guy then said” you know, we people on earth have so much nuclear weapons that we have to live in constant fear. It is said there are so many weapons that world can be destroyed many times over, there isn’t even a safe disposal for them, so what I suggest is we should take all the sleeping weapons on earth and bombard them on Mars and convert all ice into water, maybe that might support life. Even if nothing happens, we’ll be disposed of the dangerous weapons”. He looked around triumphantly as though he had addressed a gathering, though the only guy to whom he had addressed nodded his head rather unconvincingly and changed the topic by saying “These politicians are so foolish and irresponsible, it’s all their fault”. Then the topic veered off to politics and I guessed they discussed nineteen to dozen about politicians from all parts of world. I looked at my friend, he seemed to be in a different world quietly satisfied with the tea which he had just finished drinking and then we moved out of the shop, thinking about the whole preposterous idea.
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