A sudden call from brother took me to almost a ritual trip to Dadar today. Dadar station has kind of become a meeting joint for us when we are in a hurry or when seeing off someone.
You get a seat easily in trains towards Churchgate during evening, but you seldom get two men, taking seats off! As it turns out, the chaps were trying to take out a mobile which slipped from pocket during those profound sleeps. Entire compartment had taken various position to not miss the smallest bit of the rescue, some people had even started making video (between did anyone tweet about it??). The owner of the mobile has skipped five stations now and desperately wanted to get off the train WITH the mobile. In the process, the fellows managed to unscrew some of the seats but couldn’t take off what lied beneath it (seat is not wood deep my friend!). It was a hard steel sheet, having the least spaces on sides, I am sure even Aamir Khan wouldn’t have slipped through it.
Some geek had suggested earlier to keep calling the mobile which might let us trace it through the otherwise opaque sheet and might eventually cause the vibrations to make it slide (wherever). But even after stripping the local of 3 seats, the scheme failed, only victory was the location of mobile with an error in accuracy of about 5 cm (that is a big error just in case you were wondering how tall is Aamir). The shear effort was visible in the guys clothes , made me jump into the scene (I love hogging attention). Now all eyes on me (some decently attractive female eye balls included), I saw an obvious solution to the problem – IF we could get a screw driver of a particular size, the problem was solved (my exclamation was like telling Pakistan that terrorists are their problem), they all shrugged in synchronization as though we were playing in an Opera. A lot of people made heavy sighs, and suggested that he get down on next station as the train wont go to yard for another 6 hours . I kept trying (cynics said I was trying to impress the girls) and in a moment of disgust, I just pulled the bottom of seat so hard that the vibrating mobile slid elegantly into my palm (yes you geeks, you can give we-said-so looks now). A lot of people sighed again (cynics said no girls were impressed, but I beg to differ). The guy took the mobile as if it was stolen (wait a min) and in one swift action of legs, jump outside the compartment, pushing a teenager, with a screw driver in his hand, getting up the train vigorously in the process.
Yes, he had the same exact size screw driver in his hand. Everyone started chuckling moments after realizing what has happened. The poor chap sitting on the just-kept-there seat remarked "Kabhi screw driver nahi dekha kya?"
PS: Hey, we all love Aamir, he wont be mean to me. In fact he wont be even 85% of what I am (because then he would have to be taller!!)
You get a seat easily in trains towards Churchgate during evening, but you seldom get two men, taking seats off! As it turns out, the chaps were trying to take out a mobile which slipped from pocket during those profound sleeps. Entire compartment had taken various position to not miss the smallest bit of the rescue, some people had even started making video (between did anyone tweet about it??). The owner of the mobile has skipped five stations now and desperately wanted to get off the train WITH the mobile. In the process, the fellows managed to unscrew some of the seats but couldn’t take off what lied beneath it (seat is not wood deep my friend!). It was a hard steel sheet, having the least spaces on sides, I am sure even Aamir Khan wouldn’t have slipped through it.
Some geek had suggested earlier to keep calling the mobile which might let us trace it through the otherwise opaque sheet and might eventually cause the vibrations to make it slide (wherever). But even after stripping the local of 3 seats, the scheme failed, only victory was the location of mobile with an error in accuracy of about 5 cm (that is a big error just in case you were wondering how tall is Aamir). The shear effort was visible in the guys clothes , made me jump into the scene (I love hogging attention). Now all eyes on me (some decently attractive female eye balls included), I saw an obvious solution to the problem – IF we could get a screw driver of a particular size, the problem was solved (my exclamation was like telling Pakistan that terrorists are their problem), they all shrugged in synchronization as though we were playing in an Opera. A lot of people made heavy sighs, and suggested that he get down on next station as the train wont go to yard for another 6 hours . I kept trying (cynics said I was trying to impress the girls) and in a moment of disgust, I just pulled the bottom of seat so hard that the vibrating mobile slid elegantly into my palm (yes you geeks, you can give we-said-so looks now). A lot of people sighed again (cynics said no girls were impressed, but I beg to differ). The guy took the mobile as if it was stolen (wait a min) and in one swift action of legs, jump outside the compartment, pushing a teenager, with a screw driver in his hand, getting up the train vigorously in the process.
Yes, he had the same exact size screw driver in his hand. Everyone started chuckling moments after realizing what has happened. The poor chap sitting on the just-kept-there seat remarked "Kabhi screw driver nahi dekha kya?"
PS: Hey, we all love Aamir, he wont be mean to me. In fact he wont be even 85% of what I am (because then he would have to be taller!!)
