Wind up the windows and sit tight...
Look at your phone...
Type furiously...
Make sure you dont make eye contact...
Rewind...
12 hours back...
[Ma] Da..When are you coming???
[Me] I told you na, I'll be home last week of Apr...
[Ma] That's too late...You should come here before that..How long has it been since I saw you...It's not fair...
[Me] I know...Client pressure na..I have to really justify with strong reasons if I'm taking a week off...
[Ma] I can't understand your blah talk da...If you say so then its ok...
Within 5 mins...
[Dad] Daayyyiii...Enna panre??You are in office even now???How come??? What are you doing anh??..I think I should come there and check how you are n all..
[Me] Noooooo...You'll never get to see me..I'm not a normal person I say, I sleep by the day and am superman ahem super coder in the night!
[Dad] Appidiya...I know you are working hard and all..Aana odamba pathukodaa(take care of health da)..
[Me] Ya..I just had an interview with ma 5 mins back...Why don't you guys sync up your calls and speak at the same time.
[Dad] Oh is that..Next time I'll do that.
[Me] Ok..Thats the 100th time you've said that.
[Dad] Da...We're concerned for your sake, thats why I call even if ma has spoken to you..
[Me] I give a damn...Please..I'm in office...I'll talk later...
[Dad] Bangs the phone down...
I'm totally pissed off...
I need to talk to someone...I feel like I can bang my head on the wall...whaaaaaaaaa.......Who can I speak to????
I start nibbling through my contact list...
Anand?? Naa he flings abuses like crazy when he's 1. Drunk, 2. Sleeping and 3. Drunk and sleeping. Its in ascending order, and happpens to be Friday night. So no points for the correct answer.
Home?? Ok let me call...
...
...
No one picks even after ringing 20 times...
Pissed off level 2..
Meet up some folks from the floor...Talk general rise and fall of tides in the market..ahem..Kidding...Talk about how depressing it is to code at 2 in the night...
10 mins...
I'm back alone again...
Nibbling through phone list...
Cousin...Ya she would have slept..But its ok to call...
So I call, and vent a lot of frustration...Poor girl listens to all the crap half asleep and dozes off..
By that time I'm in transport area and looking for my cab...
I get into a cab thats designated to go to my area...Its almost full..
Some lady comes by and asks..
[Ladie] Is your name on the list?
[Me] No its not.
[Ladie] You better check with transport.Because some of my guys [:O] will come in this cab...I can't drop all of you and then get dropped...I stay a little far you know..
[Me] Ohhhhhk...How many of them...
[Ladie] There are many...
[Me] I mean, How many of them, as in number of your friends, are coming...
[Ladie] Many..
I dont think she understood english. So I head out and meet Javed Bhai..
[Me] Sirji...Ameerpet ke liye cab chahiye...Woh ladki bol rahi hai ki cab full hai..Abhi sirf char log hai woh cab mein...
[Javed Bhai] Aap fikar nakko karo bhaiyya..Unich caban mein beitto saab ji..Jagah nahin hai tho aur bhi cabaan hai hamare paas...
[Me] Teek hai sirji..Thanks...
I head back and sit in the same cab..This time I go and settle in the back...There's a spare tire under my leg and just 1 more person can fit in the back...
Ladie not very happy...
I call up my roomie and swear in english like crazy about how employees are not co-operative with folks who work for the same firm and have just done 16 hrs of work...come and sit tired in the cab and are supposed to fight for the cab...
Ladie frantically calls up all her 'guys' who 1 by 1 drop out saying they are not coming...
Cab leaves and almost reaches exit, when ladie stops the driver and says one of her guys are finally coming...
We wait and wait and wait for 10 mins...No sign of her guy...
I loose all my patience...
[Me] How much more time will this guy take?
[Ladie] FROWNNNNNNNNN....
[Me] Ok, you know what, only 1 more person can fit here anyway, and that security has to come for your sake...So I'm going in another cab if that's what you want..Thank you..
I get off the cab..Bang the door shut...
[Javed Bhai] Kaa hua saheb???
[Me] Woh cab abhi nahin jayega...Wohi ladki cab ko pakad ke rakhi hai..Mujhe time nahin hai boss uska khel khelne ke liye, dusra cab de do..
[Javed Bhai] No problam dosth...
I get an Indica, and it goes past the cab with the ladie...
2 folks jump out of ladie's cab and flag my cab...
Cab stops and they get in too...
We all reach our destinations in 20 mins, thanks to some good driving skills of the driver...
Saturday 31-March..Morning 10 o clock...
Call from home...
[Ma] Hey I found many calls from you yesterday night..Was it anything important...
[Me] Forget it...I'll never make a call again... I was just wondering...If it was an emergency and you guys never pick up calls...What is this??...I'll never make a call again...Listen I'm not very happy..I'm going to call up at 630 in the evening...
[Ma] Ok..I'll be there...Won't go out anywhere...
Afternoon 3:45...
I board IC 618 to Mumbai...
Evening 6:00...
I'm in the cab and moving through the multitude of roads in Mumbai..The cab stops at one of the traffic signals..Two people approach clapping their hands (with resonating effects, guaranteed no sleep for 2 days)...and then clasping their hands..
Bhaiyya...Chettaaaaa...Ekkada pottunavaaa(Telegu..Maybe by reading the tag on my luggage; Thats how smart he/she is)...
Wind up the windows and sit tight...
Look at your phone...
Type furiously...
Make sure you dont make eye contact...
I somehow reach my destination...
MY HOME!!!
I get a call from home...I'm right outside my house door...
[Ma] You said you'll call at 630..Its already 700...
[Me] Yeah..I said so...Right now I'm driving the car...I'll speak in 5 minutes...I can hear the doorbell ring, open the door...
[Ma] Ya, someone is here. Call back in 5 minutes...
Keeps the phone down..
Opens the door...
Hell breaks loose...
