mumbaiya

Life has been pretty interesting this weekend…infact…pretty eventful…but looking at a positive way…its better it happened to me b4 they arrived…hehe …. Here goes
The JP's were flyin down to Mumbai on Saturday n I thought I'll drive to Mumbai on Friday itself and catch up with buddies there n stuff that nite and then go to pick them up at the airport the next day. Well I and my BMW were all pretty dressed up to party and I roped in 3 friends to move to Mumbai. Actually the plan was for me n payal(this character will be explained shortly) to drive to Mumbai…well lucky me….it strated raining pretty bad (…pretty here is like really ugly…) in Mumbai…something close to wat happnd recently there…and water started to rise in few parts in the city. So as the time for the trip was enaring…payal calls me up to tell me that she cancelled her trip due to compulsion of her parents…they live in andheri in Mumbai and it kinda looked as if it wud be flooded. So there goes payal
Payal is this girl I met in mysore…she was a trainee there and we were kinda ok friends…then both landed up in pune. So now again were kinda friends…that's all.

So I roped in a few buddies of mine from office and planned to go to Mumbai in the BMW. The trip sure was fun. The xpress highway is sure a treat for the drivers man….wide roads---no 2 wheelers---no autos---all heavy vehicles have different tracks. So it was me n my BMW all the way ! Khandala comes in the way…40 kms from pune…well just suddenly we cudnt see anything in front…too much mist n fog..this is at 7:00 pm. Only thing we can c is the the flashing tail lites of the car in front…so even me put the hazard lites of my BMW. And we were like at 40 wwhen we were supposed to be at 120… L then it started raining real bad too….very very heavy rains…usually rain n fog don't go together but that day they were having a gr8 time … wow
Finally we reached Mumbai…I dropped them off at chembur and proceeded to meet the buddies at gatkopar(4give spellings !). I met him and then he gives me this gr8 news. He has 3 tickets for salaam namaste(gold classs) and then after that entry passes fro a 'war of the DJ's party' at some club( I think the name was velvet lounge)
I was thrilled…they get into the car. The time now is around 9:30. the guy in fromt lowers the window glass….POWWWW!!!! there it went rite down into the door. It never came up. We, still spirits high, went to the theater…it had an open air parking lot…and it started raining real real bad…we parked the car and then it struck us…we cannot pull up the front window…ddddaaaaaaaaammmmmmmnnnnnnnnnnnnn !!@#$%@#$@#$ forget not locking the car…it will get drenched in that rain…so we though we'll get a mechanic…after all its Mumbai city… we drove to the nearest petrol bunk where we were told v cud get hold of a mechanic…well again the guy had left for the day and we called him. He wasa total ass…dint budge…so we thought n thought…meanwhile the petrol guy came up for assistance …we told him the problem…he asked for a screw driver…I thought he was God…. But no..appearences are deceivable ! he knew shit…he is searching for a nut to unscrew on the plastic door cover…idiot !!! he started poking the screw driver into the window padding….it looked nasty…or atleast the way he was trying looked nasty…so I thanked him and we left back to the theater…ti was not raining that bad now. But again we thought abt wat if it rains bad while watchin the movie….so finally we decided forget the movie….remember it was the first day….and we were hoping to compensate this at the velvet lounge…

We left for the velvet lounge…damn traffic man…we were stuck for exactly 2-3 hrs…it was 1:30 am….ddddddddddaaaaaaaaaaaaammmmmmmmmmnnnnnnnnnnnnn

We went home…drenched…so was the BMW…

The next day(actually it was the enxt day when we slept itself !!! ) we got up early and took the car to a nearby garage and get the glass fixed..the work was neat…and then dried up the towels n upholstery. And at around 11 left for the airport…fixed buffer time for traffic….flight reaches by 12:10 pm. The airport was like 5 kms max from where I stayed and so we left. Again o reaching the final turnto the airport…the road is blocked due to torrential rainfall…ddddddddddddaaaaammmmmmmmnnnnnnn !!#$@#
It was just a 5 minutes drive to the airport fromthere…so we had to come all the way back to the highway and then go to the airport….again at the final curve…traffic checking…dddddddddddaaaaaaaaaaaaammmmmmmmmmmnnnnnnnnnnn…seeing a KL-8 BMW in maharashtra..the cop got xcited…asshole!!! We gave him the documents…all were there…even pollution(but it xpired the previous month- august 2005)…and finally he asked for license. I gave him the card formof the license…dint have the originals of the license with me then. So he was like he needed the originals…I tried to drive the point of it being attested and stuff…no way…I was awed by his logic…he asked me to get a 100 rupee note Xeroxed and then he wud attest it. His Q was will any shop accept that attested 100 rs note…. i dint have an option but to feel high respect for that intelligent officer…so he fixed the fine at Rs 1600. Seeing all this in front I just kept an amt 200 rs(some appreciation for a cop in Mumbai city..after all it's a metro ) that bastard finally went off with a 500 Rs note. it was time for the fight and so we settled it soon and left…

Thats it guys…haffun





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