It is nice to see almost all cars, buses wearing garlands and kum-kum. The younger ones do the same puja on their bicycles, tricycles. In Bangalore, the Ayudha puja is most visible by the display of banana leaves, banana stalks, and everything else bananas. Buses come driving down the road with six to eight foot stalks of banana leaves roped to their fronts. Boys come on their bicycles with small three-foot banana leaves symmetrically arranged about their handlebars.
Storefronts compete for the hugest banana stalk displays.
If you can translate Christmas trees into banana leaves you can get an idea of the enthusiasm and joy. Of course the other part of Ayudha puja is worship of your tools, not just you cars and scooters. The other part of Dussera is liquor. Liquor in India is viewed in a manner similar to how Victorians viewed sex. As such, only coarse people drink liquor, and then only in private.