Wednesday, August 26, 2009

They never seem to listen!

I am writing after quite a long time and it seems that my writing skills will rust (as if I had lots of it :) ) if the gap between posts happens to keep increasing...

A day before India's 62nd independence day, we all were ready to go to Chitradurga. We had 6 tickets booked and 1 passenger missing! It was none other than Mallikarjuna (aka Malli). Malli ad some "personal commitments" to fulfill and hence he did not accompany us... Any ways, he would finish off all his "personal commitments" and join us on Sunday.

Oh! I forgot to tell... Why in the first place were we going to Chitradurga?
It was Manju's Engagement day on August 16th (Read it as LAST DAY OF FREEDOM) that drew us to Chitradurga. Let me not deviate from the main topic... Where were we?... Malli was t join on Sunday.

Now that we had 1 extra ticket, and Tabu was traveling back to Davangere, we invited her to join us. The train arrived at the platform 45 minutes before the scheduled departure and all of us (Praveen, Vivek, Chandrakanth, Vinay, Tabassum and me) got in. We started chatting and Chandrakanth started having his dinner... I think we had prepared Palak panneer with Kabuli Chana, rice sambar and some other things...

After the dinner, it was the time for the TC to come and check our tickets. He was 10 meters away and we told Tabu to either climb up to the top berth and sleep tight or go for a walk and come after the TC left. Our brilliant girl peeped through the passage to see where the TC was and was sure that he saw her face. We told her that TC will be seeing hundreds of people, so, dont worry and just sleep. She wont listen! She goes to the other end of the compartment and gets down and the train starts moving! Keeping all of us worried and searching for her. Now, to add to it, she gets on the moving train and comes from a way straight in front of the TC! Such brilliance!

She had all of us on our toes!

The TC came after a few minutes and we had to transform Tabu to "Chandrakantaa" :) and our one and only Kantha became Mallikaarjuna :)

After some talking with the TC, we resolved the issue and all of us went to sleep ( At least I slept ).

Girls... If only they could listen to what is being said!