The story begins with a glamorous night in which I was a volunteer at a publication of a book "Alarm of Silence", there were many honorable dignitaries on the stage like Mr. Pritish Nandy, Padmashree Dr. D.Y Patil, Sir Waman Kendre (Director at NSD), Hon Satyapal Singh(Commissioner of Police, Mumbai), Dr Nitin Kareer (Commissioner of Sales Tax, Maharashtra), Rajvinder Singh and last but not the least Mr. Manik Munde, the shining star of the event!
The event was great but very tiresome! Dressed in a fabulous green colored Punjabi suit, embroidered with red flowers and a beautiful border, paired with heavy long sparkling but bold traditional earrings, a gold necklace and gorgeous brown heels was I standing in the room with such great stars! I was a head-turner there ;) and to be honest I loved the way I was looking as always, so beautiful!
Anyway, we came home to Vile Parle where Bhushan had invited two of his friends over for the night who were acting very child-like but still I ignored that. He kept asking me whether I wanna go and sit with them and watch a movie in the living room but I said no. I was too tired to even change clothes let alone watching the movie! I dozed off...
"Wakey-Wakey sunshine!!"
Well no one wakes me up with such sweet words.. They're always like, "Get up lazy ass we gotta move" or "Uth Uth thanyala jaychay(Get up get up we have to go to Thane)" "Get up! We're in America!!"
To be honest the last wake-up line was my favorite! :) Anyway my sister wakes me up saying there's no water in the house and that she had brushed her teeth with teensy-weensy bit of water! -_-
I got up frustrated like,"Damn!!" After checking my phones for messages and any missed calls and while talking to Anand on the phone I told him that," Dude there's no water here and I wanna use the restroom so badly but I just can't and now my stomach's aching!" He told us to go to some mall, well I hung up the phone headed straight to my sister and asked ,"what's the plan girl?"
Just to shorten the conversation let me say that we were screwed! pretty bad..
I got furious and decided to come back home, brushed my teeth with drops of water -_- cursed that area complaining, 'This is Mumbai, how come there's water shortage here!!Arrgghh...'
Packed my bag, changed into old clothes and left the house..
As I was walking out of the colony and searching for a rickshaw I saw another doom...The roads were blocked with traffic! Foolish as I am I still went up to a auto vala and said,"Uncle Parla Station jana hai " He said,"Beta udhar janeko sab raste band hai sab jagah traffic bhara pada hai, aap chal ke jao" I said,"Mujhe pata nahi rasta" He said,"age se first right lo and seedha chalte jao..5 -7 minutes mai aa jaega station"
Well I thanked him and took a quick bee route towards the station..then I started realizing that this is gonna be the worst day of my life..but let us look at it with a bright side..I learnt that the station is at walking distance from the home, not bad yeah! :)
So, here's how I started looking at the worst situations and took it positively: Only for this day i.e, Today!
Went to the Smart card ticket vending machine and to no wonder it wasn't working..I let out my anger and took a deep breath and started walking to the west end of the station, I was walking down the steps when suddenly I started feeling some tension relieved out of my left foot almost as if somehow air had managed to enter those heels, it felt so good..with a slight smile on my face I looked at my wedges..My frown turned down as I realised that the stitch towards my toes had worn out -_- Arrgghh.... Still I managed to walk toward the ticket machine got the ticket and was limping towards the platform. I wasn't bothered now, I was thinking how could this day get any worse now? Really, that's what I was thinking the whole time.. In the train I listened to songs and was in my own thoughts that I was gonna miss my station but thanks to my sub-conscious mind I got down at Dadar, next train was at 11.58 kalyan fast local..I went to the ladies dabba area and was waiting for the train.
Suddenly it dawned upon me," Hey I'm at Dadar fucking station man..there's gotta be a cobbler here somewhere so I turned back and was inspecting at the platform tryna find him and to my amazement there was a guy sitting right behind me! Oh the light of hope you're such a bitch I just couldn't find you anywhere! There he was, the hero of my day sitting on a dirty rug with shaggy clothes and messed up hair completely unaware that he's gonna be saving someone's life ! :D Unsure whether he was a cobbler or not I asked him,"Bhaiyya yeh chappal sioge kya? tut gaya hai" he nodded and I let out a huge sigh of relief and told him," mujhe yeh si ke de do na bhaiyya please mera train aaega abhi 2 minute mai mujhe jaldi jana hai, do ge kya?" He replied in a complete bhaiyya tone,"kaunsa gaadi hai? kitne time mai aaega? acha de do see ke deta hu" In a hurry I gave my shoe to him and he was doing the sewing rapidly..I checked the m-indicator for the next fast train and it was in 6 mins so I said to him that he doesn't need to hurry! he still wasn't slowing down! such is the dedication of a true superhero :)
The fast train came, Kalyan- Fast, my eyes were looking at the train and then at the cobbler, who was aware that my train had come and was shocked that being a woman I wasn't eating his head shouting at him," Jaldi karo bhaiyya train aa gaya mera" I quickly removed Rs.10 from my bag kept on his little box until then he was almost done.
This was kind of a filmy scene for me as I had accustomed my mind to the fact that maybe I would have to run behind the train, but it was still there not moving an inch. All the ladies had sit down and were doing their own thing while I was still standing here waiting for the guy to finish the job so I could catch the train. I had almost given up my hope that I would get this train when the beautiful guy said," ye lo..jaldi jaldi pehno....bhago train aa gaya!" Gosh the enthusiasm, the zeal in his voice asking me to run!! I loved it. He gave me the necessary push to wear the heels and "fly" toward the train and I did so...
When I was inside the train I gave out a foolish smile like,' Yayy I won the race, I got the train' One lady was looking at me with such a weird expression that got me realised that dude I need to chill down so I sat down and the train moved... It was as if the train was waiting for me!!
I was searching for the guy on the platform but maybe we had moved from that place so couldn't see him for one last time :) Of course I had to see him since he was the hero of my day...Not even my boyfriend gave me the push I needed but he did! and hence I was thankful to him ! I liked him.. whenever I'm on Dadar station next time I'm gonna thank him, not for the job he did but for the boost he gave me to catch the train and push this day forward and move on!
Reached Thane station and went to KFC took the take away and was walking toward station for the rickshaw stand when someone yelled out on the road," NANDAPURKAR" I was shocked and turned around to see my school friend who had a huge crush on me walking toward me, checked me out and nodded saying to himself,"yeh toh maal ban gayi boss" well we exchanged a few words and I left and was in the line for rickshaws, one guy in red shirt checkered three fourth pants and rainbow colored umbrella tapped on my shoulder asking me," how much do they charge for Manpada, I wanna go to Central Mall?" I said,"umm... Rs.45 to 50" he asked," these auto rickshaw valas go by fare right?" I said,"yeah" he left got in an auto waved me a bye and then I thought I could have asked him to share auto with me and we could have talked a bit, could've made friends with him! Damn my social skills really need some polishing! I got in the auto and at the first signal came the transsexual asking me for money, usually I am scared of them but today I just wasn't, I said to him/her that,'No I'm not giving you money' he/She waited there saying something, I dunno cause I was listening to songs and I didn't give a shit..But by the expression on his/her face I could tell that she/he was mad at me...Then I went into a dream land thinking what could I do to these people to help them..start an organisation or something, it's marketing would be performed by myself in trains appealing to people to contribute towards a social utmost needed change..
Well all this while I had it in my mind that I'd eventually blog the whole day's events! I even told Anand, these things are definitely going on my blog! :)
I came home ate the KFC burgers bathed watched some tv and now am blogging the whole day's events!
Well this is the longest blog I've ever written!
Hope you enjoyed reading my turn of misfortunes into fortunes.. Next time you realise you're having the worst day and it's just begun, start looking at it positively and I'm sure at the end of the day you'd be laughing for getting mad at silly things! you'll definitely start enjoying your worst day ;) I promise!
Have the worst day !
Adios Amigos :*
