Three weeks ago, we were working on a project's pre-release task and I was asked to stay in office till 3am. Though they didn't force me. I agreed because I was Excited to stay late night. My actual plan was to stay till 4, later I thought of boarding train at 5am in lingampally. Work started in the evening at around 6pm. And it went on fine. I sat observing the whole work. Unfortunately, we faced a problem with system's disk space and our work got stopped. We tried in 3 different machines and nothing worked for us. I unlocked my cell phone and looked at time. It was 1am. And Sridhar wants to go home as he need to come early in the morning to solve the issue with project manager.
I don't know what to do and I even couldn't ask sridhar to drop me as he need to travel 30km to his place. Anyways, I stepped out of the campus at around 2am. Asusual I reached nearby bus stop. I know that there will not be any buses at that time, but I don't know where to start. So I opted bus stop. Luckily, I saw a guy coming on bike. I asked him for lift and thank God he stopped. He said “Ok” when I asked him to drop me at lingampally. I didn't spoke much with him. Had a silent journey.
Got down at lingampally. I started asking for lift again. For some part of time, no one stopped. Atlast, God answered my patience. Infact I have nothing to do other than maintaining patience. One guy stopped for me. I told him that I need to goto miyapur. He said “I'll go till R.S Brothers”. Hmmm I don't know where it is but I acted as if I knew it and said Ok. It took just 3 minutes to reach RS Brothers and I felt to myself “Hmmm it is damn near”. I wished him Goodnight and started staring at vehicles.
After few minutes, I requested a car to stop. And to my surprise, it stopped. I repeated the lines “I need to goto miyapur”. That man replied “I can drop you in next stop”. I accepted :-P. Had a short talk with him about my night stay. And I got down in no time. I started requesting again. After sometime, another car stopped for me though I didn't request for lift. I was shocked and bent myself to talk through window. When I was about to start speaking, he asked me in hindi how to goto kondapur. For a moment, I smiled and replied him that you should take a right turn near talky town. He looked confused, and as anyways I need help, so I told him “I'll show you where to take that right turn if you can give me lift”. He hesitated. Then I said showing my ID card “I work in TCS”. Remember, all this conversation was in hindi. God knows how I managed Hindi tenses. Lolz. He accepted me to get in looking at my ID card. As soon as I sat in, he started talking in English. Oops,, I felt “poor guy might have got irritated with my hindi”. He told that he works in mindspace. Had a nice and short experience with him. He sounded very different. When I wished him Goodnight, he replied back “hope we'll meet again one day”. Interesting guy.
I started requesting again. And this time, a bullet bike stopped for me. He is a mahindra satyam's employee. I came to know by looking at his tag. He accompanied me (or vice versa) till Miyapur. Had talks related to my delay and project clients. When I said thankyou, he said “no one gives you lift at this time. I don't know how you reach your place. Takecare”. I just smiled. Whatelse I can do??
From lingampally to miyapur, I came by four different vehicles. And I wondered myself how many more vehicles I'm going to stop. But luckily, one uncle droppped me till kukatpally on bike. He looked aged (infact he is) and so he didn't show any interest to speak. I just told him what made me to stay till latenight. I reached kukatpally very soon as it is traffic free time.
In kukatpally, auto stopped for me. Auto was going till Balanagar. He demanded 30rupees. Anything is Ok at that time. Right? So I boarded. I got down at Balanagar. Went to Cafe which runs 24*7 (through back door.. lolz). Had a cup of tea and started walking to my home. When my home is 500feet away, I saw four dogs. Huff.. that was the only moment I got scared. I felt bad because I got scared after reaching my place.
However, I reached at around 3:45am. Looked at the mirror as I generally do. And I felt as if I had a thrilling night journey to my place. I strictly don't want this to happen again.
P.S: I thought of writing this immediately, but I couldn't make it in time. Anyways I believe in Better late than never :P.
