the first one

i guess this will more b like a journal for the simple reason .some incidents lodged in some distant corner of mind which makes for an interesting reading ....couple of days back i was in santacruz near poddar school . i had gone there to meet a client . as I was standing outside the building ,there was some time to kill . there was one indica parked between two autos . the next thing I knw a burly guy gets inside the car starts it , bangs the auto with a lady in it deliberately ,backs it and rams into second auto . again moves and again ramming of the first and then the second once more . by this time everybody is confused but the first auto realizes and moves his auto just in time . everybody is cursing the indica guy but I ask the readers was the guy really at fault ?say u r in hurry and wen u come down u find suddenly between two autos then this mess ..

after meeting the client i came out and realised that my shoe was torn and if i do not get it repaired immediately the heel is going to come out .just opposite to the very i stood is a junction and on the other side of junction was a mochi's shop as i could see . i crossed the junction, went to shop and wat do i find ? a lad of 15 -16 yrs sound asleep . muttering under my breath ,i wake him up and tell him to fix my shoe . he looks at me and i stare back . there is a ganesha's picture behind his back plastered on the wall . he asks pointedly : wat happened? i point towards my shoes. he takes one look and says if u do as i say u will have no problems but will cost u thirty bucks
thirty bucks for a torn shoe .. wat has world come 2 ? i start bargaining ..start with ten and then he says ok i will apply solution and stitch it but it is not going to last long .i say who cares just fix it up .he says fine . there is this box beside where is stitching and I sit down . after a while I again ask him wat about the other shoe he says “do as I say and u will have no probs “ and I again start bargaining but when he refuses .i realize I have two options : do as he says and may be no issues regarding shoes henceforth or just do wat I think is correct and then suffer wat may happen on the road . I decide to take the professional’s view J the thing is I thght he was overcharging but by then I had already said yes to him .

so to pass the time I ask him I start joking with him n say that the flat opposite to him has 2 be around 2 crores so does he have any clue where do they get so much of money .his reply : u need to ask them instead of me . I realized the guy was street smart . my intrigue let me get ahead of me and then a barrage of questions followed .the guy is from sultanpur and only wen I spoke Bhojpuri did he reveal his native . he has one sister and one bro ,younger. I was enquiring abt his education but he said he couldn’t becoz of his father was ill and his younger bro needed studying .he made a statement wich I agreed . the statement was it’s the younger ones who have all the fun .truly spoken, I guess

then it was his turn and he opened his salvo with a big one” why are you not married “ I replied saying I m not employed and no income . The worst sin , I said , is to bring a wife and not able to feed her .he understood . he said same goes for the relatives “nobody is going 2 help u out wen u need the help most infact it will b strangers who will help u out “ admirable . next was a bouncer “ wat is one thing which u have not seen in mumbai “ I am stumped . what is one thing that in Mumbai can not be seen .the answer “ a mom feeding her babe “ I m truly mystified .This chap is 2 gud 2 b on street and I realize how lucky m I ………

As I m taking the shoes he starts by saying that some chap gifted him 40 bucks for the a rupees 10 job which he asked .i get the drift but then was the whole thing a charade …as I m thinking I pay him rupees thirty and leave saying “ jindagi rahi to phir milenge “