Transportation #3

On the ride out of Periyar our rickshaw driver rode 72 times faster than any one previously. He told us tales about how, of course, he saw tigers all the time, they rambled across his path most evenings. I held on for dear life as he careened around potholes, and over speed bumps, and I tried to focus on the whole tiger thing. Periodically he would ask: "Is it fast?" and I would say: "It's a bit fast." Then he would launch into tigers again and wouldn't slow down at all. When he let us out at our hotel, he asked again if it had been fast, and when I said, "Yes, it really was a bit fast" he got a big smile and said: "Thank you."