Midsummer noons nightmare

"I don't need to compromise my principles, because they don't have the slightest bearing on what happens to me anyway." - Calvin

So it was another hot day at work. Peeves me off when i think of it...ok I'm heading slightly oftrack from my the events of the day but I just need to get this off my chest.

My new office is a perfect scaled down model of this planet.

We (as ashamed as I am its not an easier "they") take around 30 unneccesary A4 and around 15 A1 prints a day (JGI A1). Well it is because drawings need to be read in a larger scale hence the larger paper hence the need for a plotter which will not accept a used sheet.
The carbon footprint of our firm is easily thrice the size of most mid sized design firms like ours. We are systematically destroying rainforests whilst designing eco resorts on tropical islands for the ridiculously rich. Hence our role in global warming is considerable comparitively.
I sit on the second floor of my office building which is not really designed for the summer. And as the summer days are getting hotter, working environments here are reaching inhuman.
So...we might get an AC up here. And there we go again.

So as frustrated as I am with myself for not doing something about it soon enough, I have to meet deadlines under mental as well as physical heat!.
It was during one of such moments that I walked out into the balcony where my colleague was chattering pleasantly on the phone. I saw her expression change from carefree bantering to panic stricken frenzy. (Ok Ok I'm being slightly dramatic)
Our bikes were being towed away because we had parked in a no parking zone. This zone is the bit of the storm water drain that is covered with stone slabs, it has a fair sized tree planted in between and can no way be classified as a footpath. No two/four legged creature would tread on it during its daily thorough fair down the busy little street.
We stood watching helplessely as a toothless man lugged my poor bike mercilessly onto an overloaded truck and waved cheerfully as he drove away.
As it happens I dont have a license for my bike. I had a learner's license once but then it expired and I didnt have the heart to replace it. .....honest!!
So thanks to a helpful colleague and a 300 rupee dent in my cratered wallet I rode back to work slightly miffed and largely grateful I was not behind bars .. (did I mention I lost my bike papers?)
If you're thinking I should've been more responsible hold that thought for a sec and freeze that eyerole to half a circle and hear me out.

I don't go the temple or perform poojas everyday or whenever I should. I have forgotten all the mantras and bhajans taught to me as a child. I don't bow my head or mutter a quick prayer as I pass a temple. Yes I do glance at the diety always but apart from being a childhood habit I just want to say hi :).
I do thank whoever or whatever is responsible for my life. I think I've had it pretty good.
I ask for protection and success to the people who matter. And I hope to be a better person the next day. I am a vegetarian and dont kill mosquitoes even, of late I've stopped buying leather and am looking to source an promote ahimsa silk.

I dont have license or bike papers. I started wearing a helmet only of late and park in no parking zones that are wrongly so.
I follow lane discipline even if it means an extra 10 minutes on the road. I always make my intentions clear when I am shifting lanes or taking turns. I always park such that I dont cause any inconvenience to people/traffic. I dont speed or honk blatantly. The only reason I do have a motor vehicle is because my bag got snatched while walking home one day. I dont have a car because I dont need one, I'd love to have one though.

The world is full of religious assholes.
The world is full of licensed assholes.

I just paid 300 bucks because the law demanded so. The no parking sign was removed the next day.The only reason I am going to get my papers in order is so that I can give the law a piece of my mind, else I would be like a terrorist I suppose.