An Eventful Evening

Yesterday, one of my friend reminded me that I have not blogged in a while. (I was glad that at least some one is reading and missing my posts :P) I told him that I am thinking of a topic to blog about (Well, actually few days have been absolutely insane at work) and forgot all about it. Never had I thought that I will get a topic so soon.

So yesterday, we had some meetings at the client place. So I, along with my manager went there to attend the meeting and freeze some issues. To our surprise, there were some other issues they were facing which in turn will impact the date of project delivery. Somehow, we arose from this fact and finished the meeting. 

He dropped me at some place from where he had to go to a different route and I was supposed to catch a Volvo.(For the uninitiated, I am talking about the Volvo bus services started by the government) I didn’t have wait long and I boarded a Volvo. I got a shock of my life when I found that I was not carrying my wallet. Now I am a kind of person who has some amount of money in each and every pocket of my bag, however, I recalled that I had religiously collected money from all these pockets and tucked it in my wallet a day before! On top of it my mobile battery was dead. Usually I carry the charger with me, but since a day before was a weekend I took it out of my bag to charge my cell and forgot to put it back. Truly said, tragedy strikes from all directions simultaneously (and I thought that something like that can never happen to me :-/ ) So I got down at the next stop. Yes I am guilty of travelling one stop in the Volvo without ticket :P When I narrated this incident to Ma, she was giggling and asked what if there were ticket checkers at that stop, but God was kind and there were no more surprises for me at that stop. I managed to switch on my cell for a moment, called J* and told him that I have no money and I don’t know the exact name of the place where I was standing but I know the aas paas ke areas, as I proceeded to tell him the details and my phone was dead again. I gathered all my senses and tried to think about the probable solutions to the problem. I even considered walking to my place but dropped the idea(thankfully) as it was not feasible :P  Finally I decided to hire an auto that will drop me till my place. After some walking I found one auto. He asked triple fare and would not budge from that amount. Devoid of any other option, I got into it. I called J* from the autowallah’s cell (Sheesh) as I knew he would be thoda tensed. Somehow I reached home and my first words to J* were “No more discussions on this as I am home safe and sound! :P “