February 14th, the day couples in the entire
world celebrate as Valentine’s Day. But for me, it was just another day in the
calendar which was still 14 days far from my most awaiting day “Salary Day”. As
usual I was busy with my best friend, Microsoft outlook, Reading some junk
mails and replying to some of the important emails. The day went on smoothly
and the clock struck 6 and I thought of leaving
early that day as I had to meet my friend.
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Bus Stop: 6:30 Pm
After being
stuck whole day in my so called flexible chair, here I was flexing muscles a
bit in the bus stop waiting to catch the bus to go to Banashankari. After
waiting for around 22 minutes to be specific, there came the Volvo Bus. And
whenever I see a bus, I hear someone firing a gun and the sprinter in me comes
out to find a seat in the bus. I was about to enter the bus, someone stopped me,
a guy in white and white dress. For a second in my mind I was thinking I didn’t
cross any international sea border illegally why he is stopping me? , Believe
me he looked like a Naval Officer for a moment. But I realized soon that he was
the bus conductor and I stopped thinking too much.
"Sir….
One Banashankari" I asked conductor for a ticket.
"Sir
25Rs" He replied with a rough North Karnataka accent as if he would take
it from my pocket if I didn't give.
I took the
50Rs note which I had and handed over it to him.
"Don't
you have the change??"He asked me as if I was looking like the Ex- RBI
governor.
"I
don't have" I replied.
He gave me
the looks as if he would be enacting role of a Boxer in an upcoming movie and
he wants to rehearse it with me.He somehow seemed to control his adrenaline
rush and wrote 25 behind the ticket and gave it to me.I checked the back of
ticket I could see two snakes almost mating for the first time. I have never
seen such numerical 25 in my life. I controlled my laughter because I didn’t want
to have a brawl with the conductor as he looked well-built and it was sure I
would lose the fight.
My next
focus was on finding a place to park my bum**.
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Conditions Apply: The place should have nice AC and I should be able to view the
whole Bangalore’s Beauty (Normal Layman’s term they call it a Window seat).
I managed
to find a seat in third row which suited all my conditions .I took my seat and
started my journey towards Banashankari, earphones fixed into ears listening to
all my favorite songs.
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After few minutes:
Bus had
moved on almost 2-3kms and the next stop came.
Like every
guy in the bus I was peeping through the window, as my eye balls were demanding
me to see something interesting, beautiful apart from the monitor.
Meanwhile, one
girl stepped inside. I just looked at her, I wasn’t able to get a glimpse and repeated
attempts to breach the security of her curly hairs were failed. Disappointed I
started peeping outside once again. But That I got up and didn’t see the mirror
I guess. I was lucky. To my surprise she came and sat in the seat which was
perfectly opposite and facing towards me.
And the
next few minutes were the moments which I can never forget in my Life.
She was so beautiful.
Her curly hairs did compliment her face completely. “Miracle does happen"
quote came into mind at that time. Yes, she was indeed a miracle. She was so
beautiful looking female I had ever seen (at least in Bangalore).I could hear
my heartbeat murmuring "The miss Bangalore 2014 is .....”. Coincidentally
my mobile started singing Om Shanti Om movie song at that time “Aaankhon me
teri….Ajab si AJab si ”. Like me Even mobile looked at her as a Potential Competitor to Deepika Padukone.
My eye
balls were so happy seeing her and started thanking me for sitting in that
place. To be frank, I could not take my eyes off her. Mind had already started
the calculations about her age, work. All kind of Nonsense guessing was going
on in my mind. In fact my mind started thinking what should be the one-liner
should I use to Impress her. I was Crazy , is the right phrase to explain my
situation.
She
observed that I was looking at her (Staring is too harsh for beautiful Lady).
And she started to be more conscious. I could make out that she was getting nervous.
Her frequency of watching her mobile and touching her hair had increased. After
sometime she started looking back at me and this game went on for long. I was
enjoying every minute of that journey. Like every story has an end.
Unfortunately the stop where she had to get down came very soon. She got up
from her seat looking at me and smiled. A Smile which almost gave me enough energy
that I decided I will also get down in that stop.
I got down in
that stop. She turned back; she was surprised to see me getting down at that stop.
She looked happy. She smiled and I smiled.
I went to
her moving my hand towards her I said “Hi I am Gopal”.
She replied
“Banashankari”
Started
shouting “Banashankari Banashankari…..” and suddenly
I opened my
eyes and I saw that Naval Officer sorry conductor staring at me and shouting
“Banashankari
Last Stop Get down……”
By
Gururaj M J
