I was recollecting what has been the stupidest thing I have done ..well this definitely takes the cake.
I was to travel to Chennai frm Blore by Brindavan express.Being quite new to the city and its traffic,I thought that it would take me just about an hour and a half to get to the catonment station from E-city.(I can already hear the smirks...)So owing to my faith in bangalore's traffic and lack of it for the Indian Ralways I ended up stuck in the traffic about 5 kms away from the station with about 10 mins left for the train's departure.during the drive I was repeatedly asking the auto driver if I would make it and the sweet soul was repeatedly reassuring me, upto the point when he realized that only a gloomy prophecy would shut me up.So he turned back and said,no chance!! and I was shocked into silence!I reached the station about a minute before the train was to depart.And i had to run up and down the overwalk to reach the platform.Even with only a few seconds to spare,I couldnt bring myself to just get into the train, I had to get into MY coach, so I ran down the platform and actually got into the coach just as it started moving..Too bad there was no "Raj" to pull me into the train like in DDLJ :-(.Actually, even if there was I would have probably managed to pull him out and then the story would have been a tragedy even before it started ;-)..So I managed to get into the right coach and found my seat and collapsed into it and was gasping for breath.After a few minutes a crazy thought occurred to me and I abruptly turned to the old man sitting next to me and asked "Is this Brindavan Express?" He didnt even have to answer the question, his expression said it all.Wat he thought of me,which he tried very hard to disguise by nodding patiently was probably... "Top storey empty" :-)
Wednesday, August 20, 2008
The closest I have come to wrecking the car...
Welllll thinking about it now, I really wonder how i managed not to!!!!
It was a narrow sidelane with bushes on 1 side and the road dug up on the other side and slush bordering the road or what remained of it.I guess this is typical of most roads in Blore...Anyways... so....I had this brilliant idea of swerving to the left to avoid a speeding truck coming towards me.Brilliant because that landed the front left tyre into a ditch.I think it was a drain or sumthing whose lid was missing and was camouflaged by the bushes that spread over it. And the moment I realized wat had happened I tried in vain to backup.Then as I got out of the car to examine what exactly I had manged to do, this person who was driving by stopped and asked me what had happened.I was tempted to say sumthng like wanted to c how the car looks at this angle,but luckily i dont speak wats on my mind so easily and also the expression on the guys face read something in the lines of "women!!!! they should be banned from driving!!!!" so he would have probably believed that tht was indeed wat I was doing.So back to this good samaritian..he then examined the tyre and gave his gloomy prognosis, that I was in the ditch...and that backing up wont work..and while I was very nervously completing his sentences as to why this was a grave situation and praying fervently that I hadnt damaged the axle, a group of men who were working at the construction site came towards the car and without saying a word just lifted the car out of the ditch.One of the men then drove the car away onto the other side of the road, I guess just to ensure that I dont drive it right back into the ditch ;-)And as i was thanking all of them, the first good samaritian reminded me that I was lucky that nothing happened to the car....well ya, but I guess luckier that there were these people there who came to help me out who have reaffirmed my belief in the fact that 'action speaks louder than words' just when I had been contemplating on whether that is indeed true..well thats an entirely different subject now....So anyways Lucky me!
It was a narrow sidelane with bushes on 1 side and the road dug up on the other side and slush bordering the road or what remained of it.I guess this is typical of most roads in Blore...Anyways... so....I had this brilliant idea of swerving to the left to avoid a speeding truck coming towards me.Brilliant because that landed the front left tyre into a ditch.I think it was a drain or sumthing whose lid was missing and was camouflaged by the bushes that spread over it. And the moment I realized wat had happened I tried in vain to backup.Then as I got out of the car to examine what exactly I had manged to do, this person who was driving by stopped and asked me what had happened.I was tempted to say sumthng like wanted to c how the car looks at this angle,but luckily i dont speak wats on my mind so easily and also the expression on the guys face read something in the lines of "women!!!! they should be banned from driving!!!!" so he would have probably believed that tht was indeed wat I was doing.So back to this good samaritian..he then examined the tyre and gave his gloomy prognosis, that I was in the ditch...and that backing up wont work..and while I was very nervously completing his sentences as to why this was a grave situation and praying fervently that I hadnt damaged the axle, a group of men who were working at the construction site came towards the car and without saying a word just lifted the car out of the ditch.One of the men then drove the car away onto the other side of the road, I guess just to ensure that I dont drive it right back into the ditch ;-)And as i was thanking all of them, the first good samaritian reminded me that I was lucky that nothing happened to the car....well ya, but I guess luckier that there were these people there who came to help me out who have reaffirmed my belief in the fact that 'action speaks louder than words' just when I had been contemplating on whether that is indeed true..well thats an entirely different subject now....So anyways Lucky me!
Thursday, August 7, 2008
small joys in life!
waking up and realizing u still hav an hour before u hav to get up
finding money that u had forgotten, just when u thought u were broke
being welcomed by your dog as if u had been away for years
a smile from someone special when thngs r looking down
speaking past midnight about a million thngs wid a close pal
The boost that u feel wen u do sumthng for others
a casual call from a friend just when u r feelng lonely
watching a fav movie late nite on a weekday
watching the sunrise at the beach
eating "Awful awful" for dinner
going home
shopping during a sale at ur fav store
compliments from people you thought didnt kno u existed
proving ppl wrong, esp the ones who dont think much of u
doing something absolutely crazy like making faces at strangers at the traffic signal
feeling the wind blow while standing at the door of a moving train at night
finding money that u had forgotten, just when u thought u were broke
being welcomed by your dog as if u had been away for years
a smile from someone special when thngs r looking down
speaking past midnight about a million thngs wid a close pal
The boost that u feel wen u do sumthng for others
a casual call from a friend just when u r feelng lonely
watching a fav movie late nite on a weekday
watching the sunrise at the beach
eating "Awful awful" for dinner
going home
shopping during a sale at ur fav store
compliments from people you thought didnt kno u existed
proving ppl wrong, esp the ones who dont think much of u
doing something absolutely crazy like making faces at strangers at the traffic signal
feeling the wind blow while standing at the door of a moving train at night
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