First look continued...

In my last post I talked a lot about the differences. Now the similarity I found in the Credit card experience was amazing... The credit card companies make a fool out of you as efficiently as the Indian Credit card companies! Yes! With their interest rates, hidden charges, attractive offers containing hidden charges, so on and so forth... Believe me folks, I have always been a great fan of the Credit cards, all my good friends know my credit history in India :) And the same story continues in US too... :) I have now learned how to say "NO" to the credit card customer care executives though :) I only have 1 credit card now. I have always been advising all my friends to have credit cards, if they have patience to track your own transactions and if they have guts to fight back in case of any disputes...

In first few months only I was a victim of one such case. Some XYZ company got my credit card details and after my realization of fruitlessness of the offer made to me, I called the customer care support and canceled my order. But in spite of the cancellation, the company kept on charging me some bucks (intentionally?) I filed a case of dispute against the company and the charges were reverted immediately. The episode repeated once again this month also. Finally, I after calling both the companies and the bank couple of times, I got rid of the bills.

In continuation with the same topic here are some more "systems" I mentioned in my last post...

• The traffic flows in exactly opposite direction. :)

• Lane rules are followed very very strictly.

• Honking ( Blowing the horn) is strictly prohibited unless and until extremely necessary :) I still remember the Sinhgad road and Karve road and the traffic in Pune, blowing loud horns all the way... I am wondering right now, how will I be able to survive in this situation once I come back to India! ( Hahaha, Don't worry, I am kidding. I have not yet become an American! :))

• The roads, the lanes, the over bridges, multi storied bridges are built with extreme intelligence and planning!

• The roads here are normally numbered than naming. e.g. I am living on 148th AVE NE. i.e. a main road with number 148. in the North east direction. The cross roads are known as streets. e.g. NE 40th St etc. This is just a general rule. Because, you can still find the roads with names like madison St, Lake AVE etc. in the downtowns.
  

• A downtown is a planned city center where there are many business towers and shopping malls and shopping places around along with few high profile residential places around.

OK. This much is good enough for today. Talk to you all in the next post... Till then good bye and take care... Please leave your opinions about the blog. I would like to hear from you!