This recently happened to me. I was surprised to see an escalation from one of my peers marked to me (mistakenly) which was actually meant for the person’s boss! It was fun!
So guys, the tip of the day is: Don’t write in a bad mood, and re-read before pressing SEND!
Wish you are reading this… my dear friend. :) Take care next time you escalate...
Thursday, March 26, 2009
Chor-police!
It was 12 a.m. @ my engineering college hostel, Indore, sometime way back in 2002 when I was in second year of engineering. I experienced one of the most bizarre things that one can think about. Yes, I think you got it right from the topic title! Our hostel was flooded by about 25-30 Delhi police officers and an equal number of MP policemen who had come there for an encounter of a notorious gangster who had taken shelter in our hostel.
Ashish, Vinay and I were in our room (No. 11 to be precise). If I recollect it right, we were watching a movie, when somebody knocked our door very sturdily. Readers – please don’t think that the gangster was in our room (heheheh). We opened to door and found a fat police constable forcing him inside our room. We stood lightening stuck! We never expected a policeman at our door that too in the middle of the night. All three of us looked at each other guessing who was the one amongst us who did something miserably wrong (hahaha…I can’t stop laughing)! Thankfully the policeman didn’t say a word. He just came inside and checked our room and asked us to remain inside. He went out and locked our door from outside. All this while, we had no idea that the same was being done to all the rooms in the hostel. Students were instructed to not to come out in the corridor as the entire hostel had become a shooting ground within couple of minutes. Some of them who had their rooms facing the hostel front side were lucky as they actually saw the way police entered the hostel in groups of 2 officers at a time with loaded guns moving ahead using hand signals. We could not experience that as our room was at the back side.
Post all the rooms were locked up, the three of us were eagerly waiting for some gunshots, which fortunately for the criminals, didn’t happen as they had already vacated the place. It was at 1a.m. after all this drama got over when our rooms were finally unlatched and we were permitted to come out. And it was then when we learnt from some senior officers what had actually happened. There was this gangster who had come from Agra (or Delhi.. I don’t recollect) to Indore on some kind of assignment. The police got his whereabouts from their reliable sources and thus they had planned this encounter.
This was certainly a good topic for all of us in the hostel to discuss the whole night.…not sure if the cops could make it to the convict later!!
Ashish, Vinay and I were in our room (No. 11 to be precise). If I recollect it right, we were watching a movie, when somebody knocked our door very sturdily. Readers – please don’t think that the gangster was in our room (heheheh). We opened to door and found a fat police constable forcing him inside our room. We stood lightening stuck! We never expected a policeman at our door that too in the middle of the night. All three of us looked at each other guessing who was the one amongst us who did something miserably wrong (hahaha…I can’t stop laughing)! Thankfully the policeman didn’t say a word. He just came inside and checked our room and asked us to remain inside. He went out and locked our door from outside. All this while, we had no idea that the same was being done to all the rooms in the hostel. Students were instructed to not to come out in the corridor as the entire hostel had become a shooting ground within couple of minutes. Some of them who had their rooms facing the hostel front side were lucky as they actually saw the way police entered the hostel in groups of 2 officers at a time with loaded guns moving ahead using hand signals. We could not experience that as our room was at the back side.
Post all the rooms were locked up, the three of us were eagerly waiting for some gunshots, which fortunately for the criminals, didn’t happen as they had already vacated the place. It was at 1a.m. after all this drama got over when our rooms were finally unlatched and we were permitted to come out. And it was then when we learnt from some senior officers what had actually happened. There was this gangster who had come from Agra (or Delhi.. I don’t recollect) to Indore on some kind of assignment. The police got his whereabouts from their reliable sources and thus they had planned this encounter.
This was certainly a good topic for all of us in the hostel to discuss the whole night.…not sure if the cops could make it to the convict later!!
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
Car Vs Bus - 8th March 2008
It was a decent Sunday afternoon, when I was driving from Silk Board towards Banarghatta road. I was in my car and was at around 50-60kmph. Suddenly from no where, there was this rash bus driver who overtook me from the wrong side (left side to be precise), barely missing my car’s side view mirror.
My instant reaction – I lowered the left side window to give a really bad look at the driver. I failed to do so and it hurt my ego! I changed the gears, accelerated the car, overtook and brought my car in front of the bus, and reduced my speed. The bus behind me also slowed down and tried to again overtake me from left, again. Seeing that, I steered the vehicle in that direction to block his way. The bus driver again tried to overtake me, this time from the right. I again steered to my right and blocked his path. This bus and car game continued for 2-3 minutes when finally I felt satisfied and left the bus to follow its own path. I felt like a self declared winner.
Just within couple of minutes of this rage, I realized what I had done. First of all, I had actually risked both my car and my life just to satisfy my ego. I brought it intentionally in front of the vehicle without thinking whether it was really required. Secondly, I tried to prove that the driver was a bad person, without realizing what situation a driver can be in, especially when the poor chap is doing the same thing from morning to evening, throughout the year to make his both ends meet.
Certainly, I will keep this incident in mind, and will try to avoid this in future!
Bye 4 now!
Views invited... of course! :)
My instant reaction – I lowered the left side window to give a really bad look at the driver. I failed to do so and it hurt my ego! I changed the gears, accelerated the car, overtook and brought my car in front of the bus, and reduced my speed. The bus behind me also slowed down and tried to again overtake me from left, again. Seeing that, I steered the vehicle in that direction to block his way. The bus driver again tried to overtake me, this time from the right. I again steered to my right and blocked his path. This bus and car game continued for 2-3 minutes when finally I felt satisfied and left the bus to follow its own path. I felt like a self declared winner.
Just within couple of minutes of this rage, I realized what I had done. First of all, I had actually risked both my car and my life just to satisfy my ego. I brought it intentionally in front of the vehicle without thinking whether it was really required. Secondly, I tried to prove that the driver was a bad person, without realizing what situation a driver can be in, especially when the poor chap is doing the same thing from morning to evening, throughout the year to make his both ends meet.
Certainly, I will keep this incident in mind, and will try to avoid this in future!
Bye 4 now!
Views invited... of course! :)
Sunday, March 22, 2009
Cruelty against animals.
How many times do we come across situations where we find deprived animals in pain? And how many times we merely close our eyes, either pretending that someone else will take care of their pain, or assuming that this happens to many animals, so this one can’t be exclusion? I think this happens to me almost everyday! And I am sure this is the case with almost all of us, unless you are in a house arrest, or really blind (in that case you won’t be reading this blog at all, unfortunately).
It was yesterday when I was out for a lunch at a nearby place, when I saw this poor dog licking his wound (a severe one) on one of his shoulders. I whistled and he came to me wagging his tail despite of his pain which I could see in his eyes. I felt as if he was asking me something, but as usual, I sidelined him, assuming that this is the law of nature. I am sad about this incident. We have become so selfish that we care only about ourselves. We work from Monday to Friday, and on Fridays we think about options to spend time on weekends. On 30th/31st of every month, we wait for our salaries, and the time goes by like this for ever. Yes, this is our life these days. There is a need for us to change the way we live, and I would like to hear from anyone who wishes to contribute on how we can do that? Views are most welcome...
It was yesterday when I was out for a lunch at a nearby place, when I saw this poor dog licking his wound (a severe one) on one of his shoulders. I whistled and he came to me wagging his tail despite of his pain which I could see in his eyes. I felt as if he was asking me something, but as usual, I sidelined him, assuming that this is the law of nature. I am sad about this incident. We have become so selfish that we care only about ourselves. We work from Monday to Friday, and on Fridays we think about options to spend time on weekends. On 30th/31st of every month, we wait for our salaries, and the time goes by like this for ever. Yes, this is our life these days. There is a need for us to change the way we live, and I would like to hear from anyone who wishes to contribute on how we can do that? Views are most welcome...
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