13th june

13th June, 2009
00:05 Am

Finally the engine of the bus roared back to life sending a sigh of relief across all the passengers. Amidst such flurry of incidents we had totally forgotten that it was India vs. West Indies T20 that night. Quickly most of the passengers plugged their ears with ear phones of their radio enabled mobile phones. Like all matches this one too went down the wire and eventually India lost.Not a second had passed when ravi shastri said that "west indies win" when a got a sms from richa that cursed the WestIndian players so much that had they read that stuff they would have preferred losing. While we were grieving and pondering that who should be blamed for the loss there was a small thud and 15 minutes later everyone in the bus was perspiring heavily. Time for more bad news, the engine had developed a snag and the AC wouldn’t work. The driver tried to fix it but no avail.

Some how we managed to reach Meerut. Driver suggested that we should take another bus from Meerut to Rishikesh and that he would refund us the rest of the amount.we had a tea and matthi at the meerut bus station while the driver tried to arrange another conveyance for us. But its not easy to find a public road transport at 3 in the morning. We had no option but to continue with the same bus. After a night full of adventure, a lot of co operation and even more advices (you get them free of cost here in India, they (advices) are like asses, everyone has one) about how to manage the public transport we finally reached Rishikesh at 8 in the morning.