Thursday, July 28, 2011

Near miss :)


So I was home for one awesome weekend last week :) The weekend didn’t start off awesome but pretty much ended up being that way!
:)
So bags packed me and Ram head to a restaurant close by called Kumarakom and the husband exasperatingly wants to try everything on the menu with me begging him to hurry in the background! We settled for the chicken biryani and 2 Kerala porotas with egg curry,and just when the dish reaches the table he spots that the guy at the live counter is making fresh appams and now he wants to try that as well!!(Do you see what I mean by exasperating?!) 

Anyway done with the meal we rush to the bus station and I go give the ticket printout to the guy to get my boarding pass and this lil doubt suddenly crosses my mind, so I ask him this is a ladies seat isn’t it and he says no it isn’t, in fact it’s the last seat, which isn’t even the 2 seater thing but a 4 seater and it’s all guys!
Now I am confident and can pretty much handle myself if anyone acts smart with me but hey here I am with a freshly popped avomin pill ready to pass out cold :( I freaked out to say the least!

I then got Ram to run up and down Madivala the bus station area and ask every travel operator there if there was any last minute cancellation, he came back with no luck, so then I checked for flight tickets but there were no flights suiting my schedule, they all left Bangalore too late and reached back too early!

So there I was praying to all my gods that they somehow manage to get me one lil seat somewhere,the bus reaches and I jump in only to see its quite full and it’s only that one formidable seat at the back that’s empty,my heart sank and I got out of the bus bags and all :( and we were just discussing what we could do about this situation when suddenly the travels guy sticks his head out and says he has managed to move some people around and that I have that “Ladies seat”!!! :)
 
Yippppppppppyyyyyyyyy and away I went on my way to having the most fab weekend at home with Cookie :)
 

1 comment:

  1. ugh.. tel me about bus journeys and the last minute panic that brings.. still remember the Etti to Cochin bus journeys.. the panic hit the minute some holiday was around the corner and subsided only wen we were on the bus and on our way... getting the gud seats, avomine popping, aweltering heat or awful rains, lousy loos, bus breakdowns, battling freaks who wntd to be fraands... we've done 'em all! :P bt honestly, miss those journeys!!

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