Pardon the title for sounding like an Apple product. A huge part of the time I devote on blogs is spent on thinking about a cool name for the post. You might be very well aware, longer times spent hardly ever assure you a good name. If not, read through the title names and tags of all my posts.

I digress.. sigh.. The point of this blog is to prove to all you suckers who did not vote that I, Anirudh Venkataramanan, am a ‘responsible’ citizen.

That sounded a little too much even by my standards. You seriously cannot expect a person to struggles to keep simpler elements of his life together, to play a responsible role in deciding who will run the country. That being the idea, I skipped through my days in bliss, throwing a smug expression at people who ran around in uncontrollable hysteria, trying to get their voter ID done. Just yesterday a colleague of mine happily told me that his name was in the final voters’ list. “Good for you!”, I said.

He came back to me later and asked me to check if my name was there. I said “No dude, bullshit, bullshit, more bullshit“. At his insistence. I opened http://ceokarnataka.kar.nic.in and searched for my name.

“Ha! What did I tell you!”, I exclaimed in mild triumph as my friend looked on.

He looked at the screen and said “Hey, they make all kinds of gruesome spelling mistakes with your name. Try all combinations of letters in your name. Put it backwards if necessary!” I was  looking for a second victory lap when I saw the screen show ‘Aniruda Venkataramanan, House #73′. My first reaction was surprise, for obvious reasons. Second was outrage. How the hell could they see a ‘h’ as an ‘a’?? IDIOTS!

After this, it felt like my friend had made the decision for me. He said, “Good! Make a note of your part number, serial in part number, details, details, more details“. I thought about it for a long time. Thought I shouldn’t let me laziness dictate me, procrastination should be procrastinated, (fill this space with  more impossibilities), etc etc. However I decided to fall asleep in the middle of that thought. Got up the next day and went to work as usual.

My friend had gotten up at the crack of dawn to finish his duties. This is what he showed me so proudly. In this pic however, he looks more like someone who is proud of the finger that does all the nose digging very efficiently.

I told him that I hadn’t voted. If he was disappointed, he did not show it. After a while, he came back to me and said. “Today is a day off anyway. Why don’t you go and vote?”

Subtly persistent this fella, I tell you! At that point, it somehow seemed like a good idea. Off lately I have been jumping at every opportunity to skip office. So I took off, came to my place and finished the voting by simply displaying my PAN card (and pressing the button of course). The whole process was horrifyingly simple. I have my own little finger to show people now.

Too bad its not the finger I usually show. Would have been a perfect excuse.

P.S.

My sincerest apologies to Prasanna for the atrocious ‘finger pointing’ above. He gets all the credit for making me get off my behind..