Friday, May 11, 2007

Can you please drop me till the main road?

Can you please drop me till the main road?
This was the question that used to do rounds in my head when I was in the first of my BCA. Mine was a small college not a big one where I was doing my bachelors of computers. To travel to the place there were quite a few options available:
1. to catch a bus from just near my house and then catch another bus from shahadara.
2. walk to about 300-400 mtrs and then catch a direct bus.
3. from where ever u come the bus will leave you at a place where u have to catch another bus or an auto which takes people in huge numbers such that it seems almost impossible to fit in.
4. or leave all this and take a train but to reach the railway station u have to take a bus.
5. or take ur own personal conveyance available.
So how to return back just the vice versa but their was no single bus available that could drop me in near my place, for that we have to reach the delhi border and from there only we will get something. To reach the border catch an auto or a local bus. All this was part of the daily routine for me. Some people used to come by personal conveyance and some lucky ones like this one Nisha sharma had her own car given by her father with a schauffer. She was nice young lady with a nicer smile. She knew that she was pretty much pretty but she never boasted about it and was ok in studies and academics. She would come in her and a typical hindi movie scene would roll over me.
In all this while I forget one thing that she coming in car could actually help me in a way that if she can drop me to the border I can easily go home and won’t have to struggle much. Naaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
Actually how to speak to her as I was a bit shy so one day this great idea struck me as to if what I ask her to drop me till the main road and that way we can speak a bit also. But whats the use I always think of it but never executed the idea. Self-confidence man yes you require quite a bit of it what I used to say to me and my friends also. Well that never happened but fortunately or not we started to speak even if a bit of hi hello or airy wairy topics. So one fine day when the class got over I was going and saw her approaching her car, gathered a bit of courage and asked her if she could drop me till the main road?
She looked!! No not like that and said within 2 seconds sorry but my driver would let my father know of the same. Inside me I was saying(waah boss well try better luck next time ab chal foot yaha se teri kismet mein bis hi theek hain). Fine I said and headed from there, to my embarrassment not at that time but later almost all my friends were present there when this happened. They used this to pull me up like anything but its ok it happens. As natural didn’t ask her again for the lift, soon she left the college for some personal reasons and I came to know from my friend after some time that she was going around with a guy from our batch but her father is against them. Well that was ok to me as I wasn’t interested in her all I was bothered more was how much more time do I need to struggle to catch a bus?