A Day With a Stupid..!!

Confused with the topic and the picture posted? The story put here is about me on a fruitful Friday. the sign board put here matches my stupidity and moreover a post without a image will not be much appreciated la..! The second paragraph contains the Crum of the story. I said that for people who are really too busy to read the entire post.

That was a Friday. Yes the day for which all employees wait 6 days a week...: p.. And I am no exception. The day started in a dull way. Got up leisurely at 10 and getting ready slowly taking my time in the bath room. My room-mate Harish will not wake up until I enter the bath room and daily once I enter the bathroom, he ll wake up and start calling out.  Somehow I managed to get ready and started to office. On the way to the bus stand, there is a hotel, the hotel that serves more than a thousand of bachelors and working couples in our area. I rushed in there to take my breakfast which is just 2 Idlis. Pls don’t misunderstand that I am on diet. That is the only dish we will be getting there in a quick time. I completed my breakfast of 2 idlis completely hidden inside a plate of Sāmbhar in a quick time and I rushed to the bus stop.  I was waiting for my bus for a couple of minutes. BMTC (Bangalore Transport) is really brilliant knowing that almost all IT companies are in that route they will run only Volvos in that route. But that will be very frequent and all buses will be jam packed. Will wait there skipping a two or three busses only to get into the fourth one which is nothing better. Will be standing in the bus where only one of my feet will be on ground. In Bangalore traffic, the bus will take 30 minutes just to travel 7 KM. somehow reached the office before 12 praying that my manager should not have reached by then. When I reached my place, I was happy that my prayer has been answered but not fully! There was my furious team-mate staring at me. I humbly said Good Morning. There was hardly a smile on his face when he responded that it is already afternoon sir. My mind was quickly searching for some reason… what the Heck! I have used up all reasons already. Anyway there was nothing to fear about and just told him that it was Friday and I slept a bit long. There was a grin on his face saying ‘At last you said the truth today. Ok go and start chatting’. He told and he went busy in chatting. There came the first shock of the day. I logged in to my system only to find that my network port has been disabled and there is no network connection. My only way is to ask him, which I did hoping that he might give me some solution. But got only solutions like replug your LAN cable, restart your system, which I already did and are useless. He didn’t show any care. I returned to my desk and was planning to call up IT helpdesk. It was then he came to me and asked with care. I was wondering what happened to him suddenly. Later came to know that, he was not able to open Gtalk suddenly. Later in the day everything got fine with the help of IT people and the remaining day @ office went as usual with Lunch, Carom after that and roaming around the campus and some calls from manager, getting few tasks from the other team mate and obviously completing them.

 This weekend all from Pondy have decided to go to home and have booked tickets in KSRTC. I have booked ticket in 10:00 PM bus. Arun and Mani are the other two guys from pondy. Arun has booked in 9:30 bus and Mani is in 10:00 bus. I called up Arun so that I could get a lift in his bike to home from where we could leave to the bus stand together. Mani planned to go to bus stand directly from office. Arun, whose full time office work is to read yahoo news daily and then spread them to everyone in the later part of the day?  But it was his bad luck that on that particular day, he was filled with work and he was not able to come out till 7:30. He was really worried since his bus was at 9:30. With high speed rash driving we reached our house by 7:45. We had a quick fresh-up and a stream of perfume so that our neighbors in bus are not feeling uncomfortable. But most people don’t mind for that. We started from house at 8:00. I was sure that we will reach the bus stand before 9:30. But he didn’t have his dinner too. By God’s grace or the blind luck in many signals, we made it to the bus stand 9:15 itself. We had a quick dinner and started towards bus. I was very much worried then since my bus is only @10 and I have to wait there till then alone. Then I thought of Mani and called him. He told that he will reach the bus stand in another 10 minutes. So I bid good bye to arun so that I will roam in Big Bazaar which is nearby. But he insisted that I should give him company till his bus. We searched for a while and then found a Pondicherry bus standing there. When enquired, they said that it was 10 PM bus and our search continued and we found the 9:30 bus soon after that. He showed the ticket to the checker and went in. I cursed him again for leaving me alone and going in as soon as he got the bus. It was then. I found one of my school friends who work in Bangalore. We meet every time in that bus stand when starting to pondy. And we meet only then. He was standing there along with a girl. When I went near them, I came to know that he was scolding that poor girl for some small mistake she did. He has been searching for her for 30 minutes. For that he was continuously scolding her for more than 30 minutes. They were both in that same bus. Probably that poor girl would have got more from him inside. But he gave it a break giving a quick introduction of me to her. She said her name and her college. From that I was able to recognize her as a good friend to one of my close friend and our conversations continued. Meantime the conductor and driver of the bus was really restless waiting for some passenger who has not turned up still. She offered me some cookies which I really like very much. But I respectfully denied the offer once. Then I understood from the speed she took it back that I have really missed a cookie. It has already been 9:45 and still their bus has not started. When I asked them, they said that someone has not turned up still. But I guessed the driver lost the patience and went inside his cabin. These two bid bye to me and they two got into the bus. I didn’t mind to see my ticket till then. I just took it out from my bag and went to the 10PM bus checker. I handed him the ticket. After a while he saw me with a shock in his face as if I gave him his firing order. But the matter he told me after that transferred that shock to me. It was then that the ticket I have booked is actually for 9:30 bus and not 10PM bus. I just snatched the ticket from his hand and ran towards that bus. Thank God! The bus had just moved a little. I just went in front of it and stopped the bus. The conductor came out from the bus with two really big eyes on his small narrow face and he started to literally scold me. Fact is that I didn’t understand a bit of what he scolded except for the fact that 35 passengers have been waiting for me more than 30 minutes. Then I realized that he didn’t notice me standing right in front of the bus for the past 45 minutes. He checked my ticket and allowed me in. I had a warm welcome with an angry stare over almost 30 people. My friend and his colleague were sitting there and they scolded me. But I didn’t dare stand there since others too might join with them. IT was then that I found arun. He gave a surprise or shocking welcome whatever it is. We adjusted with the seats so that arun sits next to me. Arun could not control his laughter for a long time. Well, what else will he do? Even I was laughing thinking of my stupidity.

Well a big thanks for the people who gave their time to read about this stupid. Comments appreciated!