Saturday, 21 May 2016

Another dramatic trip!

I was waiting close to Pune bus stand for a cab to go to Navi Mumbai. After a few minutes I got into the cab along with three more people. One of them was a lean young man in his thirties whereas the other two were older ladies, may be in their mid 50s.
The two ladies seem to belong to the same family as they never seemed to stop talking to each other. They were like two loud speakers completing the music system of the car. The driver was a lean and short man with a look of innocence and kindness.
The car was moving along intermittently thanks to the heavy traffic during the evening hours. The driver also took a longer route through the city to enter into the expressway which separates Pune and Mumbai. As soon as the man with the beard recognized that, he started slamming him with words of fury, shouting at him for wasting time.
The driver was answering in a frightened voice that he was familiar with only that route. I was sitting in the co-driver’s seat and was frightened whether he would get up, take me by my collar and bang my head against the windshield for not guiding the driver through the shorter route.
After a while of shouting he finally calmed down as if the storm had subsided. The driver entered the expressway finally and started gaining speed. He throttled hard and the car was rocketing along. He was clearly venting his anger out by not taking his foot off the accelerator pedal and he was well assisted by the powerful Fiat Engine.
It was a pleasurable drive in Tata Manza and for the first time I felt Tata cars aren’t really as bad as many people think. We stopped at a hotel for a few minutes to freshen up and the two ladies bought some vada pav to eat.
After a few minutes of drive, one of those ladies started vomiting inside the car and the driver took the car sideways and stopped. I was thinking funnily, how delighted she was when she was having vada pav, encouraging others to have them by telling that the hotel is famous for its vada pav.
The driving resumed and as there were no more events on store as the car cruised through the roads of Navi Mumbai.

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