What is the Head Bobble?
-the head bobble is what people native to Mumbai, India do; refer to a bobble head toy for the motions.
When does it occur?
-the bobble occurs at any given moment; when a question is asked, when you are conversing, and when you are being watched.
Is there a cure?
-unknown.
Years upon years this group of people walked everywhere.
They were often too tired to do anything.
Too tired to work. Too tired to eat. Even too tired to talk.
The British got wind of this terrible tragedy and decided to do something about it.
They thought long and hard about what to do.
Bicycles? Scooters? Cars?
But there are too many people. They didn’t have enough money for that.
“Ah Ha!” said a particularly intelligent man. “We’ll build the railroad for them. It can carry many people at once!”
Britain got on the move fast.
It is a good thing too because the Mumbaikars just kept slowing down.
So the first train ran on April 16, 1853.
It was a 14 coach train that held many people.
The Mumbaikars were pleased with what was happening.
They road the train often but the conversations were slim.
Well I should say, the word conversations were slim…
Have you been on a train?
You bounce around in every which way.
Your body moves in ways you wouldn’t think possible.
And this is when the body conversations started.
But the people got tired of no noise quickly.
They began to talk with words again.
But the train would still bounce you around.
You would be talking while your body is bouncing in every which way.
Eventually, they were able to control their arms and legs, being able to stand still.
But the head would still move around
The neck muscles just could control their heads.
So people got use to this.
They began to bob their heads while off the trains.
In normal conversations in coffee shops and stores.
It quickly became a norm that they could help but do.
Then when the next generation of kids came along, they grew up seeing their parents bob their heads so they would bobbed their heads.
And so on and so on.
Now, when foreigners come along and question them about the head bobble, they don’t know what they are talking about.
This is why no one knows what the head bobble means.
And that is the invention of the head bobble.