It was a pleasent evening when we all boys at the end of second year had gone to Dhola-ri-dhani. We all met up and by the time we left from there it was arnd 11pm. The only guys who came from kukatpally and beyond were me, sita and raja. rest all of the guys at that party were from the other side of the city. We just had 1 sunny on which we 3 headed back home...(trust me we comfortably sat on it)..
3 of us enjoying the cool breeze and happily heading back home.. Just then a light glows next to Raja's head and he comes up with an idea..[ btw Raja is known for his Logical and Navigational skills ( lol ) ] ...Dhola-ri-dhani to our place on a sunny is easily an hour's drive on the regular route. But Raja suddenly remembered a shortcut and he asked us to deviate from the regular route and get into one of the side roads, according to him that route would take us to our destination in half the time.
[ Time :11.30pm ] -- We started going in the shortcut recommended by Raja. After a while the road started getting narrower.. Raja was humming some songs sitting behind us. Just to confirm we asked him "do you think we are heading correctly ?" And he just looked and said "Yea yea...The road would get even narrower and we should be in a place where there is no road... And then there would be no lights for a while...a little further we will find the main road from there our house is just 10 min" we were like wow awesome...
[ Time : 11.40 pm ] -- Just like he said, the roads disappeared after a while...slowly there were no more lights....added to that, there were no houses or any signs of civilisation around us. All we could see is huge rock hills...But since Raja had already mentioned that "First roads will disappear , then the lights..." we just kept going.....
[ Time : 11.45pm ] -- It was quite some time now that there were no lights and the only light available for us or what we could see is from the headlight of our sunny... Now we were getting a bit apprehensive...Now around us from the little moon light we could see huge hills..and bushes all around us...and we were still going further on our sunny.
[ Time : 11.50pm ] -- Really far away we saw a small shimmering light (sounds like hotel california..aint it )...Anywayz...we saw this light really far away and Raja was all happy because his route actually worked and we started raising the accelerator to head towards the light.... (Did I mention that the Fuel indicator was almost near nil ? So, we never knew how far we will get..)
[ Time : 11.55pm ] -- The Light -- The first time we saw the light, we were hoping to see more and more lights as headed to close to it, because that was supposed to be the light from the main road..But no matter how close we reached, there was just ONE light... ( we were wondering how can a main road just have one light ?? )... Still we headed towards the light because we had no where else to go. Once we reached closer to the light we realized it was not the main road... There were a few huts there...and just 1 light for all of them... There were a couple of guys and ladies sitting outside there... We were tired by now riding for a long time..we just stopped and decided to ask those folks the route.. The moment they saw us, we could see a shock on their face. All they asked us was "What the hell were we doing there ?" We explained where we wanted to go and asked the route to the main road..They were like.." MAIN ROAD ?? " They mentioned that, there was no road further, where our vehicle would go...and that was the dead end...And one of the guy said that we have done a BIG mistake by taking this road in the night...He mentioned that people around there dont take that road even in the day time..It is not SAFE..Now we looked at Time and it was 00.00
[ Time:00.00 ] -- As suggested by the guys we started to head back to the road we came from and take the regular route...We were a bit nervous now...But as usual we laughed it out and didnt show it... We were also thinking may be those guys were just fooling us...Now we were observing more closely the route which we had actually taken and it looked really scary with all those huge rocks around us and all the bushes everywhere...We suddenly saw a deviation on that path...now were thinking whether to take that deviation or not....If we take that deviation, we might reach the main road...but we were not sure...And if we head back to the regular route...its going to take a really long time by the time we reach home...But we were not sure if we wanted to take a chance again....We stopped, turned off the engine of the vehicle at that deviation and were looking at each others faces not knowing what to do...Just then we saw a vehicle coming from far off...It sounded like a scooter..We thought may be we will ask that person for the route and since he is coming that way, he should be knowing it. We stood on the middle of that pathway, waiting for the savior who is gonna come and tell us about the super shortcut. The vehicle came even close by and as guessed it was an old scooted which had headlight whcih hardly had any light coming from it...The pathway was not even, it had all ups and downs, it was a typical shortcut mud road. So we could see the little light from the scooter go up and down as it approached us..Now while the vehicle was coming close by, Raja was getting confident about his route again. He was feeling as if he regained all his lost memory and the light next to his head had charged up and started glowing again, he was feeling more sure that if we take that deviation we would reach the main road.But me and Sita thought we've reached so far lets just wait for a couple of minutes for that good samaritan who is coming towards us and we will make sure of the route and then head accordingly
We could hear the roaring noise of the old scooter soon approaching us, and there was a smile on all 3 of our faces...We put the stand for the sunny and stood on the mud road all ready to discuss the route with the "guiding light" approaching us..We could now faintly see that it was Man and a woman on the scooter... Both of them were mid-aged..As they almost came near us, we shouted "STOP..!! STOP !!" The guy had actually not seen us till then because there was no light, The moment he heard us and saw us...He started screaming .."Noo NOooo" and he changed his gear to first and started to accelerate soo fast..and zooooom he was gone..Our "Hope", our "guiding light", our "savior" who was supposed to show us the route had actually got scared of us thinking we were theives / ghosts and just ran off. It was now clear in our minds that it was no longer safe to try out anymore shortcuts.. and like the guys in the huts had mentioned it was really very unsafe over there... we started our sunny and went back to the regular route without even speaking a word and stopping anywhere...And finally we were almost reaching our home...After all this..Raja was feeling hungry now. And he wanted to eat something. So finally when we reached kukatpally we stopped at a sweet shop and we bought some snacks for eating on the way back home..Well there ended one of our funny incident which had become quite famous in college the next day..
Ok now time for me to get ready for work, had woken up too early today so thought will write up something which i remembered the moment i woke up (because i was watching a horror movie last night..hehe..). ciao soon...
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hehe it was so cute some of the things you explained..
7 August 2009 at 03:53
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