from the head of a stray cow

I travel to office everyday either by my office bus or by BMTC if I'm late. I travel on the famous Hosur road of Bangalore known for its never ending stretch of tar and asphalt from the heart of Bangalore to Hosur. Its a highway and a city road all in one. Hosur road is infamous for its traffic snarls, potholes and its famous residents, the stray cows.The stray cows have made Hosur road their home, the sad part is that their grazing field is the garbage that is lying around hosur road. The cows sleep either on the medians or on the footpaths watching over speeding buses and motorcycles. Now, one fine day I took the BMTC Volvo to office when at Adugodi junction I happened to see a stray cow, let me call her, careless :-). Careless, the Cow was brown in colour with short horns funnily turned on her head. She was trying to cross the road unmindful of the morning traffic madness all around her. My bus was heading towards Electronics City, the Info Tech park of Bangalore and so I was on the left lane while careless was on the right lane, so I had a nice view of careless from my bus seat.

      Careless was trying to cross the road from the footpath on the right lane to the left lane and it was then that the signal turned green and all hell broke loose, motorists just vroomed in opposite directions in both lanes. Careless suddenly found a wall of traffic on her way and so she hesitated for a moment, then she just swayed away without crossing the road. I was amused by this scene. A human would've waited for the traffic to die down and then would've crossed the road but careless, the cow she is just didn't bother to cross the road at all.

   

I wondered why would careless have wanted to cross the road in the first place. Did she have a purpose? Did she want to cross the road in search of food on the other side of the road? If so, then why didn't she just wait for the traffic to die down and then cross the road. If not, so what makes her stray like this aimlessly. I know cows don't have aims and goals in life and are aimless but it just beats me.I wondered whats just goes on in that head of careless, howmuch ever small a brain it houses. Pretty naive thoughts I should say, but then thats what I thought of then. Is careless then suffering from the short term memory loss like gajini? :-) I guess not.