Sunday, October 02, 2005

Life is full of surprises

Today all my family members ( my mom, dad, brother and also my cousin ) and myself had gone to our native place. We had hired a Tata Sumo ( transportation vehicle ) for our transportation purpose and the hero or the main character in this post is the driver who had accompanied us in this trip ( technically the term 'trip' doesn't fit here ).Let me tell you some things about our driver ( i don't know his name , so i shall call him Mr. Turtle : you will know why, shortly ).Mr. Turtle is a good ,jovial guy and a guy with lot of ( maybe unwanted ) patience .The only drawback with him is that he never at any circumstances drives fast.

I usually don't accept any changes that would occur in my regular schedule i.e. in short I don't like to bunk classes or miss my tuition classes for any reason ( not specific ).So , I had agreed to join this trip on the condition that I should be able to attend my tuition classes which were at 5:15 PM.

We left our house at 7:00AM against the scheduled 6:00AM (Since i woke up late).We reached the place at around 10:30AM and finally left at 2:00PM. Initially I didn't realize that with Mr. Turtle sitting in front of the steering wheel I would be late for my tution classes. As time passed I became conscious of it , I tried to hint him to go fast by telling everyone how important the class was for me and about negative effects of me missing the class. But that dumb ass kept on driving at 40/50kph which irritated me the most. I wanted to push him out of the driver's seat ,place myself there and drive at 60/70kph and reach my classes on time.

But fate has its ways and he did make me go to the classes 15 minutes late and when I finally did reach my tuition place I came to know that classes were postponed by around 20 minutes.At that time I just laughed at my attitude and ways in which our life gets filled with surprises.

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