A tryst With Strangers

The day starts with "ANKUR"( dats me 8-)) waking up at 5:00( man i have achieved something :P).I had a reason behind compromising with my sleep. I had to go to ALWAR(Rajasthan) for some important work there..The journey was of around 7 hours( by bus) and it was full of new experiences ..I thought i should share some of them..

1. Boarded the bus for gurgaon and couldn't find seat for 45 mins..atlast seeing my pain the Conductor offered me a seat beside him..though the seat was for only one person but we managed to fit in to it..For the sake of passing time i was reading an English magazine "TEHELKA". Its like one of the very complicated and difficult to understand kinda magazines i have ever read..(at least i find it diff. to understand all those articles).I was reading some article on INO -Us nuke deal.and the conductor was watching me read that..He suddenly grabbed it from me and started scrolling through the pages..HE started like "So, you into politics??"

I was like " hmmm...Not much ..i just read for the sake of Some general knowledge" and then he started speaking like some bullet train and didn't stop until some bus stop came ..He was actually not talking vague things.He was all the time discussing about the deal and all the arguments related to it..he was talking logically..and also told me that he dearly follows MR .tejpal..(the chief editor of Tehelka)..i asked him about his qualifications.He told me that he has passed 12th..I was quite amazed..a haryanvi jatt having passed only 12th reads Articles of Mr. Tejpal and understands helluva difficuilt articles and can convince an engineer...well I was impressed...

He asked me about my qualifications . i told him i am doing engg..He immediately asked me a question .." HOW many soft wares have you made"?? i had no answer to it..coz i havent made any.. !!

I felt ashamed and just said i am working on it..!! he then started testing me with my knowledge about comps..at that tym i thought man he is getting hyper.but i was kinda njoying it..coz it was like some test for me.. I answered almost his queries ..But i was stunned with the knowledge he possessed about comps... He said he studies it for FUn..It was quite inspring talking to him and he filled me with a lot of enthusiasm for sure..!!!


2. On my way back to home i had to board a BLueline Bus to go tomain ISBT in Delhi..On my way back from ALWAR to DELHI i met an air force officer in the bus..he was a personality..He had a great passion for sports..He told me how he lost both his legs and owing to his dedication and commitment to sports he is the coach of the volley ball team in his contingent..he had words of Iron and personality of steel..he was going to kurukshetra i.e about 30mins from my city. so we had to go board the same Blueline bus..

I was sitting with a boy around 21-22 who had dark complexion .He was nicely dressed and was discussing with me how his destiny(Fate) helped him from the bomb blasts that occurred just few minutes ago..he seemed very outgoing and experienced kinda fella..juss then i saw that he was having a knife tucked b/w the belt and the trouser .I asked him why was he keeping it" He said i carry huge payments all the day so for safety purpose i keep it..." I was like .." OK kool.Fair enough.."

The bus was crowded and suddenly breaking the conversation he stood up and just pushed some people in front of him I dint get him at that tym.. the Airforce officer was standing right in front of him.As the bus stopped he ran away like anything...Didn't understand anything ...jus then when the airforce person checked his pocket to take out money for ticket he realized it was picked... It was clear that the pocket was cut by the knife.. The whole picture was clear..I was sitting beside a pick pocket ..i didnt know how to react that time...i chekcked my pocket immediately and found my wallet in place...Gosh i was relieved.. !!

So a meeting with the pickpocket and the "Knowledgeable Jatt" were one of few experiences i had...have more of them too but seems the posts is getting much longer !!
will continue in other post..!!