Atrocity at its peak :(

Yesterday me n my brother decided to go to TNagar to do some shopping. We reached an old bus stop(The bus stop has been shifted to a new spot and hence this point serves as a share-auto stop). After reaching that place we came to know that the share - auto walas were on a strike.. Oh god!! Since i was too lazy to walk to the bus stop, i decided to hire an auto. There was an old man standing near us. He too was waiting to hire an auto. He is the one who gave us the info abt the strike, he also told us that the ordinary auto walas are demanding 50 bucks!!! to go to TNagar.
From Ashok Nagar, Tnagar should be just 2 - 3 kms and they are adjacent areas. We usually pay 20 - 25 bucks for that distance on a normal auto and 5 bucks each on a share - auto. Just because there were no share - autos yesterday and ppl were forced to take the normal autos these auto walas have just doubled the rates. Finally that old man, me and my bro took an auto and decided to share the 50 bucks. The auto we took wasn't even the ordinary yellow one meant for public use, it was a private auto painted blue. They are not even supposed to take public passengers.!!
There was another incident where i was forced to pay 70 bucks for a travel from Guindy to Ashok Nagar. I had a bag in my hand on which my company name was printed.The auto wala told me that since am making hell lotta money!! i HAVE to pay him so that he can survive!!.. huh wat do these ppl think.. Are software ppl given machines to print currency notes!! We too toil like others to make money.. Agreed!! We are not working under the hot sun all day and not the ones to put drastic physical work.. still we have to travel for nearly 3 hours everyday. Pressure, Stress and mental strain are something we undergo everyday. Dont think that we are paid 'heftily'!! for just sitting in an A/C room.
Oops. I wanted to just cite the atrocities of the auto - walas and it ended up somewhere.
Hope someone will save us from these money - sucking auto walas. No ray of hope yet..sigh!!!