Pune trip

Around 1:00 Am I reached Pune station. I got down and looked for my friend. After sometime he came and I felt a bit relief as I had no clue what I would do if he didn’t show up.

Coming from a small town Bhilai I had very small idea of the outside world. I expected things and people as quite simple and easy going. And this being the first encounter was a very enriching and amazing experience. So, I get down to a sleepy platform of Pune with lot of excitement and thrill and eyes wide open.

And the fun had began as soon as I got there. We hugged and chatted for a while. The first thing I wanna do was after 20 hrs of journey was to smoke. Man, I was dying out of carving. Being in DA-IICT for a sem and smoking 8-10 cigarette every day I was too addicted to them. My friend Anup asked me would I would like to go to the disco?

Yaa man….. would love to. I replied grinning. So we rush to the discothèque in his CBZ. The great Pune city litted with myriad street lights, easy traffic and cool breeze of night was very exhilarating and soothing. We stuffed my luggage in one of his friends home and went straight to move our asses in flashing lights and in very very high volume of music which most of the people have no idea. I had never been to a discotheque before and only seen and heard about it. I expected a lot of white chicks with minimal and hip clothing, partly drunk and partly high. I expected a huge euphoria in the place. And the place really rocks. Even though it was a decent disco, I was immediately flattered. The room was decent sized divided mainly in three sections. In the middle it had a bar where the sonsofBitches sells booze at atleast 3-times the rate. On one side it had lounge and some sitting arrangement and on other the disco floor. There were several huge speakers on the room around 8-10 pumping out enormous amount of deafening music which can event sets a deaf feet to rock’nRoll. The place was not very crowded as there are infinitely many such cool places in Pune. On one side my friend’s friends were enjoying and we went to them and done the formal introductions. There were 2 chicks with them and out of which one was very cute and beautiful and other to me resemble more of a kind of metropolis bitch and tramp. She respelled Deepak as if she had never knows any one with that name. Anywaz the party had began. We grabbed one-one bottle of chilled kingfisher bear and started rolling over asses. This being my first time and with a bunch of people, whom name I had forgotten as soon as the other guy told his name and 2 chicks (I know that’s not a huge stats but for a starter is a big thing), I felt very awkward. Bhai, me being a desi guy, only knowing “Amitabh bachan and dharma pagi” style of free dancing felt a bit tense. I know if I start enjoying we would certainly be thrown out of the place. So with caution, I danced and drank slowly. In the end, it was very fine and enjoyable experience. We reached home back at around 5:00 in the morning and felt too tired and slept all over each other.

The next day I woke up when my friends placed a cigarette on my mouth. They had hired a guy who used to live with them and do all their work. He was the cook, cleaner, the laundry man and many more. The first thing to do in the morning was to smoke as much as I can until my lungs give up. We ate heavy breakfast and I being habitual to a sleep of 14-16 hrs of sleep went to sleep again. Infact sleeping was a very important part of my journey otherwise how could I spent 8 days in a city like Pune.

Then in the evening we went out for dinner in a cozy restaurant outside the town. There was a very strange and unexpected incident which happened with me there. On my second day of trip I was saving and one of Anup’s friend stated shouting: He can’t find his money and someone took them. And within minutes the discussion became heated. They all rushed to the room and checked everywhere. After some time one of the friend who was outside and told he had taken some money from his purse but remaining he had no idea. I also thought of check my purse, just for being safe. To my utter bewilderment my purse which used to have more than 400 Rs was now empty. OMG!. And I called Anup and explained to him the situation. He knew I had 400 rs in purse and I m not lying.

There were some suspicious creatures in the flat and there was a servant guy. The incident was also a shock for all of them also. Rightly so if anyone comes to ur house and is something is stolen from him, u ought to feel embarrassed. Someone them became very angry and called the servant guy who bluntly refused to seen the money forget taking it. And the guy had just cleaned the room 20 minutes ago, so most of the suspicion gone on him only. In the end nothing came out and I lost 400 Rs on the first day, even before the fun began. I had bought only 1500 with me and 400 are lost in 1 day and my mind was buzzing abt how I would survive in the coming 7 weeks.

The next 4 – 5 days very very fun and the best part of the 1^st sem vacation. We enjoyed thoroughly, made many trips around the city, seen a lot of chicks and wasted several hrs just smoking and chatting in some shade around the city. Infact in 7 dayz I had smoked around 100 cig. There were few place which I already had in mind I want to see. The first was to see the BVP college of science at Pune.

On the Fourth day we stated for the BVP. BVP was on the outskirt of the city and was around 12-15 km from our residence. The atmosphere was quite hot and humid and with the burst of traffic Anup got a bit irritated. Also, he had no interest in seeing the college and its only becoz I asked him he came. The incident happened on one traffic signal where Anup broken the traffic signal and taken the bike zooming while the red signal was on. Immediately the Pune police got on action. On the rear mirror we can see the police man following us. It resembled much like a movie scene. We being on the CBZ raced through clearly beating the Traffic policeman very behind. After sometime when we can’t find him following, we stopped for our cigarette break and smoked and calmed our self. And again began and we had gone around a KM more and very near to the BVP gate suddenly out of nowhere the police caught us. I mean it was around half hr before we had broken the rule and them he missed us, we stopped and had a cigarette and are so near the gate and this policeman! I am still very confused how did he find us? But, the Indian police are “True Indians” by its very Nature. Their sole aim is welfare of the people. And they follow a very general philosophy which is stamped out on all of them in whatever training they get. Right from top to the bottom a very special talent is being imbibed on them. I personally fell in a very strict sense that -we are a very large part of it. And that is cooperation: I will scratch yours back and u will scratch mine. Whatever rules u break or not break they will start from a fixed rate ie Rs 500/- and nothing else. They will pretend very serious and strict and appear very busy. They give u angry looks and a blunt and horrible lecture on driving and lifestyle. The people also have cracked them and give standard answer that they don’t have 500 Rs. So what can be done? We also had done the same. He told him that we had a examination in the BVP and that’s why we had rushed and please forgive us. But they won’t accept anything unless they had been shown some Gandhiji’s pictures. They will steadily reduce their rate and will come down to even low of Rs 10. Finally Anup gave him 50 Rs and he let us fee.