Last night we (my colleague and I) were trying to catch a rickshaw (or auto rickshaw) near Oberoi Mall at Goregoan. We couldn't catch one , because rickshaw wallas in Mumbai try to balance between work and life all too well. One can never catch a rickshaw so comfortably, late in the night not just because they aren't available, but because they just wish not to come anywhere.
Obviously we were pretty upset , that we had to work on Saturday and couldn't even find a rickshaw back to the room. We had noticed that we were not the only ones who were upset about the rickshaw wallas , we had company. One elderly woman, was trying even harder to find a rickshaw as she had a lot of carry bags in her hands. She saw us, walked toward us and started a conversation.
Aunty: These rickshaw wallas are a bit too much into luxury.
Me : Yeah.
Aunty: Where are you guys going ?
Me: Malad.
Aunty: Me too. Why don't we catch a rickshaw together .. you might get one on sympathy grounds .. old lady sometimes comes handy .. what say ??
Me: okay
We could finally catch one.
All three of us while sitting in the rickshaw, we were pretty silent initially. Someone had to say something, the elderly woman started it.
Aunty: We are going to get in trouble from tomorrow. There'll be a massive loss of property and life.
Colleague : Why , what's gonna happen.
Aunty: There'll be rains. And like a lot.
Colleague: It doesn't really seem like that.
Aunty: Officials at the rains department have told it.
Collegue: Oh , chill Aunty. In this case you don't have to worry at all. They are never going to come true.
Aunty got pretty furious and said ,
"No. They are right. Remember 26th July. It's going to be the same , this time too. Be prepared. This will be hell unleashed."
Colleague: If that was the case, so be it. How can we stop all of that ?
Aunty got pretty satisfied that someone is in some agreement at last.
Aunty: Only if God wishes, we couldn't all survive.
Colleague: True.
Aunty: Look at this stuff.
And she showed those carry bags. I , initially , thought that they might have had some grocery stuff .
Aunty: I take this food to do some charity.
Colleague: Oh , impressive. You seem like a lady with a big heart.
Aunty: (Blushing) I do my part. You know how much it costs me, to do all this each day .
Colleague: Oh, darn. You do that every day??
Aunty: I do it every day. I gives me immense pleasure to give away all this food. Once I go home, I just distribute all of these stuff to dogs.
Me: Excuse me .. did you just say DOGS ??
Aunty: Yes. I feed all this stuff to dogs.
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