Auto Driver
As a child, Arvind Desai(AD) was as normal as any other in the slums. He would play in the garbage dumps and keep stray dogs as pets, and constantly be in trouble. He had a bunch of friends and a bunch of enemies. His parents had menial jobs and could just about get by every day.
When he was 18, his uncle suggested that he should start driving an auto-rickshaw. He took a loan from a friend and started. Soon, He was making more money than expected. Just about enough to buy another auto. But he had a loan to pay off.
People were surprised when they saw a new auto parked next to the old one. They were also surprised when his friend, from whom he had borrowed money, was found dead with a slit throat but they never connected the two. He hired someone to drive the old auto.
Arvind Desai had become the leader of a large group of auto-rickshaws. He hired more and more people to work under him. He had become rich but still lived in the slums. He continued driving autos.
The memory of his dead friend still haunted him and he grew more and more irritable. Like any auto driver though, he disliked people who gave him big notes instead of small change. His irritation evolved into a psychotic loathing. He took out his frustration on a poor college going boy who gave him a hundred rupee note. He murdered the boy and took all his change.
or the change he took.
It makes no noise in his pocket.
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