Monday, May 01, 2006

Hitch Hike

My destination: sarkhej
my means: Anything
My mission: to reach destination.

Empathy was the word for the day as each and every vehicle driver looked at me for a loooong time with caring eyes,slowed down, made me run upto him and then drove off.
Finally a truck slowed down and the sdriver shouted" sarkhej".

No place inside. He made me sit in the sun where bricks and cement are genreally transported. Burning to death, I decided to lie down in the small shadowy are and observe the traffic. All i could see where lots of heads, some small, some huge, some blue, some black... some hairy, some scary... Heads heads and heads......
There was this scooter guy who kept poking his head out of his helmet, shouting at everyone and then putting it back in place. Next, there was a cyclist, who is actually the protaganist here. He had a radio in one hand which was placed near his ear and he was humming a tune while cycling. Our truck guy, had stopped the truck, trying to find reasons to drive on, or motivation rather, as a btp student shall say. He was involved in a bery enjoying discussion with other hitch hike mates, when one of them said something, handed over some money when he said "bhaaada apoo", and twisted the door open.
Our poor cycle guy, mean while oblivious to the atmosphere in the truck was super happy, at getting the chance to overtake a truck. Off he went to the left of the truck, and now I could only see the head, with dirty hair, brownish streaks.

As he crossed me away, for a moment he was going at a very normal speed, and the next moment, he disappeared... Ans someone got down the truck. Never had I seen such an intriguing phenomena in my whole 21 years. So, I got up and ran to the edge, to lean over and get acquainted with the current developments. I could see a cycle , a radio and nearby, a man sprawling on all fours. The door, was opened at precisly the same moment, the cyclist decided to overtake the door of the truck. A long list of highly censored words followed the bump of his head, at the end of which he kicked the truck as a part of his revenge and then finally, drove off his cycle showing that he was still victorious.

6 comments:

Naresh said...

The Bliss in Little Things of Life! :)

waise, wht hv u bn upto in Sarkhej?

Gururaj said...

Mc.D's 20 rupees ka food. And babu, u r really fast at comments.

Unknown said...

naresh is the new speed king! started and completed his BTP all within a span of just 7 days!!


anyways, when was this incident re?

Y.M. said...

ughh...


interesting though...
where s sarkhej??guj itself???wen r u going back home ??

Unknown said...

annai... ninnu ela contact cheyyali??

Gururaj said...

in amdavad. jst bak to clg.