When things go wrong, they go wrong in bulk ! .. Murphy's law is so true..atleast in my case ! I have been having a horrendous time over the past month.Anything i do is going wrong..No mercy at all!
Let me start with the 7 km trip that cost me 10005 bucks!
Yes, 10k. It takes 15 days to earn that and it took only a fraction of a second to lose it. This happened 3 weeks ago in a crowded MTC bus. I generally start to office at 8.30 and reach coolly by 9.45 or so..now dont ask me why i go so late..reasons are there ;). but that fateful day of July 24, i thought of going 15 minutes early,thinking that i will get a seat in the bus to sholinganallur. All buses were as usual crowded.. n i was lucky to find A51 with empty seats..i barged into it happily. The ticket is Rs 5.50. i gave the conductor 10 bucks and he gave back 5 rupees to me stating he dint have changes. I thought this was my lucky day as i got a seat and also made a profit of 50 paise ! he he .. so i thought let me do things differently than usual..n i put my headset into my bag,kept my mobile in my pouch and stopped listening to the songs which i regularly do while travelling... While i was thinking how lucky the day has started off today,my destination arrived and i had to wade through the immobile standees who were reluctant to part with some space but were only concentrating on grabbing the lone seat that was getting vacant because of me. Cursing them, i got down the bus and saw the bus dissappear from sight. Only then I realised that something else has also dissappeared. My Nokia N91 !! ;( . Some smart fellow had flicked it in the melee when i was cursing the ppl! Smart because he had switched off my cell immediately !
Now, I was perplexed. I was cursing myself now. Why did i do things differently that day? i could kept listening to songs. The conductor could have given me the exact change, the bus could have been overflowing so that i would not have boarded that...everything could have been done..but there i was, not knowing whether to be happy for saving 50 paise or losing 10k. 7 km cost me Rs.10,005..a journey i would never forget!!
