the list of those that I have gone through over the past 6 months on Rd No-1 Banjara hills ;) ya.. 90% of the time I have spent in this city is in and around this place.
I have been literally waiting to post about these, been crazily busy with so-called work but!
.. so .. It was a jam packed weekend, spent completely at office. Sunday 9.00PM, I could no more stay up with it at this desolated office. Mind thwarted to touch that no-mouth-watering dinner back home, though was hungry like a mad dog that starved for years! filled the tummy with something, (I do not want to say crap) for that moment meanwhile roomies planned on their cooking hunt. We decided to go for a round of Cream-stone icecream, i beat nothing can get better than those! By the time we, 3 of us, left home it was almost 10-10.15PM and me suffering from shoulder pain decided not to ride with 2 people behind (that we tried before and came out with flying colors) ;)
Some unbreakable hopes, we had, that chances of finding a rick at that time of the night is as high as a herbivore eating meat, cant get any more weird huh.. both with the hopes and the analogy!? :P
Anyway, hit the main road was waiting for a rick near the signal, almost 10 minutes passed by and to freeze our blood, a car at whatever maximum speed that you can imagine racing in a zig-zag manner towards us, with a bunch of crazy drunken maniacs inside. 3 of us stood still having the final thoughts, it came close and zoomed away, we were saved!
And within no time, came by a lady in an Indigo with another lady accompanying her, asked if we need a drop, 3 of us were totally distracted of the incident that just happened and without an iota of hesitation, we got into her car.
as soon as we got it she said, 'do not take drops like this at this time of the night, its ok with me, but its not all that safe, just a word of caution'. that was enough to confuse us if we should trust her or not.
And then she said, meet this so n so, she is from Somalia. the next shock for us. we got scared the hell out! 3 of us were sitting together luckily at the back and we held each other firmly listening to that.
She could intelligibly read our faces through the mirror and said do not get scared, there is no problem. And added that she had to deliver an icecream tub to someone on the way, so she had to take a different route. she got into a road that diverged from the main road which was completely residential, all dark and no signs of humans out on the streets.
We were almost pissing on our pants, dreaded, eyes protruding out. Suddenly some God thing hit my mind that I have to do something about the situation, so I picked up my phone (loads of thanks to this saviour) called up nobody and was talking, explaining the whole situtaion and pretended as if there are people waiting for us at the parlour and they are not far away.
She was speeding highly and there came a sudden pause at a corner of a street. We thought that was the last moments of our lives. I was meanwhile thinking if we should just jump out of the car and start running like what happens in some women oriented stunt movies.
She paused for less than a minute and took a u-turn and stopped outside a booth bungalow kinda house and said she got to get off the car to drop the stuff in that house. We said nothing, she got out and came back, started off, I again started my random calls but this time no faking, called a friend of mine who lives in the city and confused her to the most possible extent, but she could get the hint quite a bit. I said that I would call her back before hanging up.
This lady, not sure why, drove back and joined the main road and we gave a sigh of relief, not huge though! She was trying to make a conversation on the way. But we were $hit scared and completely frozen that none of us were operating on a normal mode.
We, however managed to ask her where does she live and when she said Road no 3 which is completely on a different direction from rd no 1, we asked her if she had come all the way to just drop us and added she couldn't have taken so much trouble for this and that we would have managed somehow. She said just because we were girls, she thought its unsafe to be waiting at this time of the night, not realizing that we have already realized how unsafer it was to accept her offer to drop us.
We finally reached cream stone, and in no time after we got out of the car, she just zoomed past that we couldn't notice her car number, we were even unsure of the color and model of the car. She probably did not want any of our imaginary friends who were supposedly waiting for us at the parlor to notice her!
I called up my friend and explained her of the confusing call which I gave her a while ago.
And then.. we started discussing and tried to connect the dots to realize how risky it was to get into such things and be in such a situation, hogging our favorite icecreams, that's worth of the whole risk that was taken! :P
Assumptions/blunders made:
1. We took the drop because she was a lady, and after the car that passed us leaving us alive just by a matter of luck, we definitely thought it was unsafe to be waiting on the road anymore. Indian mentality, that thinks women are less dangerous.
2. General matter of fact is that nobody (should I say no girl) would bother to drive an extra mile just to give a drop for some unknown tom, dick and harry on the road.
3. And because Cream-stone is just at the end of the same road as we were waiting at, we thought she must be driving somewhere ahead, that she must be going via this place only!
4. We failed to ask her to stop the car as soon as she said she had to take a different route, because if shez gonna say that its ok and rubs it off, we cannot go on arguing with her. It might either heat up the argument and she could get furious the same moment or its like we are giving her more time to think of what could she really do with us.
Only good thing that we could do to help the situation was the random phone calls that I made, pretending of informing people about what was happening. Probably made her think that there are people around for us to take care if something goes wrong. My friends went on praising me for this :D
End of it, I don't say I was 100% sure that she tried to play a trick with us. But... there certainly seemed to be a wary of negative intention with the whole act of her. Particularly when she zoomed past as soon as we got off the car, there was a pinch of frustration that was seen on her face, might partly be because of the way we were acting or it really is that she couldn't see any profit for driving down that extra mile!
And now, to show that we genuinely realized what was with the escapade, we did not take a drop. Also we were ready to pay the auto-wallah 1.5 by meter instantly, forget the fact it was 11.45PM then! ;)
This was my 3rd adventure and the 1st was something similar, around the same time of the night, at the same place, I was actually riding back home after office on a weekday and someone started following, which I noticed through the rear view mirror, only after half a km after he actually started off. I saw that fellow with a bike, standing there at that signal and just a stranger on the road. But luckily my flat was very close by and I reached soon after I saw him behind. Worst thing was I stopped outside to open the latched gate to get in and bloody bugger, he stopped too, but thankfully at a distance and cried 'baibyy'! I gave a stare and just entered ignoring that a**e!
2nd one was the mistake on my part, I was driving down from the wrong side of the road even after seeing the cops standing there arguing with someone. I was clever enough to think that they wouldn't notice me :P but he started running towards me as soon as he saw me coming, I took a U-turn and sped away, he was almost there catching me. Escapeeeee :P
Alright. do not scream at me now. I have realized how risky being there! But at some point of time, somehow mind doesn't really fail to take risk!
I have been literally waiting to post about these, been crazily busy with so-called work but!
.. so .. It was a jam packed weekend, spent completely at office. Sunday 9.00PM, I could no more stay up with it at this desolated office. Mind thwarted to touch that no-mouth-watering dinner back home, though was hungry like a mad dog that starved for years! filled the tummy with something, (I do not want to say crap) for that moment meanwhile roomies planned on their cooking hunt. We decided to go for a round of Cream-stone icecream, i beat nothing can get better than those! By the time we, 3 of us, left home it was almost 10-10.15PM and me suffering from shoulder pain decided not to ride with 2 people behind (that we tried before and came out with flying colors) ;)
Some unbreakable hopes, we had, that chances of finding a rick at that time of the night is as high as a herbivore eating meat, cant get any more weird huh.. both with the hopes and the analogy!? :P
Anyway, hit the main road was waiting for a rick near the signal, almost 10 minutes passed by and to freeze our blood, a car at whatever maximum speed that you can imagine racing in a zig-zag manner towards us, with a bunch of crazy drunken maniacs inside. 3 of us stood still having the final thoughts, it came close and zoomed away, we were saved!
And within no time, came by a lady in an Indigo with another lady accompanying her, asked if we need a drop, 3 of us were totally distracted of the incident that just happened and without an iota of hesitation, we got into her car.
as soon as we got it she said, 'do not take drops like this at this time of the night, its ok with me, but its not all that safe, just a word of caution'. that was enough to confuse us if we should trust her or not.
And then she said, meet this so n so, she is from Somalia. the next shock for us. we got scared the hell out! 3 of us were sitting together luckily at the back and we held each other firmly listening to that.
She could intelligibly read our faces through the mirror and said do not get scared, there is no problem. And added that she had to deliver an icecream tub to someone on the way, so she had to take a different route. she got into a road that diverged from the main road which was completely residential, all dark and no signs of humans out on the streets.
We were almost pissing on our pants, dreaded, eyes protruding out. Suddenly some God thing hit my mind that I have to do something about the situation, so I picked up my phone (loads of thanks to this saviour) called up nobody and was talking, explaining the whole situtaion and pretended as if there are people waiting for us at the parlour and they are not far away.
She was speeding highly and there came a sudden pause at a corner of a street. We thought that was the last moments of our lives. I was meanwhile thinking if we should just jump out of the car and start running like what happens in some women oriented stunt movies.
She paused for less than a minute and took a u-turn and stopped outside a booth bungalow kinda house and said she got to get off the car to drop the stuff in that house. We said nothing, she got out and came back, started off, I again started my random calls but this time no faking, called a friend of mine who lives in the city and confused her to the most possible extent, but she could get the hint quite a bit. I said that I would call her back before hanging up.
This lady, not sure why, drove back and joined the main road and we gave a sigh of relief, not huge though! She was trying to make a conversation on the way. But we were $hit scared and completely frozen that none of us were operating on a normal mode.
We, however managed to ask her where does she live and when she said Road no 3 which is completely on a different direction from rd no 1, we asked her if she had come all the way to just drop us and added she couldn't have taken so much trouble for this and that we would have managed somehow. She said just because we were girls, she thought its unsafe to be waiting at this time of the night, not realizing that we have already realized how unsafer it was to accept her offer to drop us.
We finally reached cream stone, and in no time after we got out of the car, she just zoomed past that we couldn't notice her car number, we were even unsure of the color and model of the car. She probably did not want any of our imaginary friends who were supposedly waiting for us at the parlor to notice her!
I called up my friend and explained her of the confusing call which I gave her a while ago.
And then.. we started discussing and tried to connect the dots to realize how risky it was to get into such things and be in such a situation, hogging our favorite icecreams, that's worth of the whole risk that was taken! :P
Assumptions/blunders made:
1. We took the drop because she was a lady, and after the car that passed us leaving us alive just by a matter of luck, we definitely thought it was unsafe to be waiting on the road anymore. Indian mentality, that thinks women are less dangerous.
2. General matter of fact is that nobody (should I say no girl) would bother to drive an extra mile just to give a drop for some unknown tom, dick and harry on the road.
3. And because Cream-stone is just at the end of the same road as we were waiting at, we thought she must be driving somewhere ahead, that she must be going via this place only!
4. We failed to ask her to stop the car as soon as she said she had to take a different route, because if shez gonna say that its ok and rubs it off, we cannot go on arguing with her. It might either heat up the argument and she could get furious the same moment or its like we are giving her more time to think of what could she really do with us.
Only good thing that we could do to help the situation was the random phone calls that I made, pretending of informing people about what was happening. Probably made her think that there are people around for us to take care if something goes wrong. My friends went on praising me for this :D
End of it, I don't say I was 100% sure that she tried to play a trick with us. But... there certainly seemed to be a wary of negative intention with the whole act of her. Particularly when she zoomed past as soon as we got off the car, there was a pinch of frustration that was seen on her face, might partly be because of the way we were acting or it really is that she couldn't see any profit for driving down that extra mile!
And now, to show that we genuinely realized what was with the escapade, we did not take a drop. Also we were ready to pay the auto-wallah 1.5 by meter instantly, forget the fact it was 11.45PM then! ;)
This was my 3rd adventure and the 1st was something similar, around the same time of the night, at the same place, I was actually riding back home after office on a weekday and someone started following, which I noticed through the rear view mirror, only after half a km after he actually started off. I saw that fellow with a bike, standing there at that signal and just a stranger on the road. But luckily my flat was very close by and I reached soon after I saw him behind. Worst thing was I stopped outside to open the latched gate to get in and bloody bugger, he stopped too, but thankfully at a distance and cried 'baibyy'! I gave a stare and just entered ignoring that a**e!
2nd one was the mistake on my part, I was driving down from the wrong side of the road even after seeing the cops standing there arguing with someone. I was clever enough to think that they wouldn't notice me :P but he started running towards me as soon as he saw me coming, I took a U-turn and sped away, he was almost there catching me. Escapeeeee :P
Alright. do not scream at me now. I have realized how risky being there! But at some point of time, somehow mind doesn't really fail to take risk!
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