Superwoman ME!

There are times in your life when everything around you seems to be falling apart. Well with me it’s just that this happens a lot more frequently, like on an everyday basis. Take yesterday for instance, it promised to be a chaotic mad rush day and was all that and more. The fun part was that I had to work late and then go meet a couple of friends who live far far away. Since I live in the back of beyond and there is some sort of distance that needs to be traversed between areas and of course taking into consideration Bangalore Rains and Traffic, I had quite a joy ride. Halfway home, on the main Basvangudi road, just after the World Culture turning, my car chooses to stop, bang on the middle of the road. It had run out of Fuel and I knew this could happen, in a year and a half of driving around in my red Ferrari, this had never happened. This time it did and the car spurred and sputtered as I tried to give it some life.

I am on the middle of a busy road, stuck in my car and it refused to start. So, I very promptly got off and managed to push it to the side of the road. My muscle power amazed me. I managed to push a car sideways for about 400 mts. With no help. WOW. I pushed it alright and locked it also. Now, I forgot that my money was in the car and there was absolutely no currency in my wallet. My phone on the other hand was deactivated, because I was switching from a pre paid to a post paid, which entitled airtel to deactivate my old sim and not activate the new one. SO here I was stuck with a car stranded in the middle of a road which had no parking and it happened to be bang in front of the bloody Basvangudi Police Station, just a few yards away from the bus stop.

I gathered enough courage to leave my poor red gaddi ji stranded with no company on a no parking zone and I started walking. The best part was it was raining and I was in cream trousers and so I nicely got my ironed and laundered cream trousers dirty and still didn’t manage to get a bloody phone booth. I walked and walked and walked till my granny’s friend’s place which was in the radius of a kilometer or so and called for help!!! Then had a nice dinner there and was petted by aunty, finished that and ran back to check on how my gaddi was doing and if it was there at all in the first place. Enough exercise I say!

All I will say is that petrol came to me in a bottle, my gaddi was fed, ma was pacified without too much drama and I got home without any bruises or scratches and without having to run around policemen and stations!!! Sigh what a day!!!