The road trip – Friday. One day at a time!

Note : Some of the funny parts are “you-had-to-be-there-to-laugh” type. So please excuse if you see a smiley and don’t find it funny. .. like this one. .. or this..

As you might have already known that three of us started from Chennai and one more was to join us from B’lore. Me, Murali and Deepak were the three and Andy was the fourth. So we started from Chennai to Banglore via Hosur. There is also another route but since those roads are not as good as this one, we opted to take the easy way out. On the way to B’lore we had to go to VIT (Vellore Institute of Technology) and see Deepak’s sister. Deepak was to see his sister and we were there to see everyone else.

After we had done our tasks, which was to see everyone, we started from there. Deepak took the car out of the parking area skillfully with very little help from the parking assistant. As we started moving out the assistant remarked “Please look ahead and drive well”. After closing the windows and making sure that the assistant couldn’t hear him, Deepak commented to us “What does he think?! I have a car license, of course I know how to drive.” Once he finished saying that we realized that he had missed the turn and went straight. So we had to come back, take the turn and leave before the parking assistant could see us making the mistake.

We had yummy chappathi with sabji which Deepak’s mom had prepared for three of us for the road. She was even so thoughtful to pack in tissues, water and biscuit packets.

Of course, what is a highway drive without spotting comical spelling errors and so we came across this:

We reached B’lore by 1 PM and were supposed to go to Deepak’s aunt’s place for lunch. Intro - “I-Know-all-except-what-you-want-to-know” Murali. He’s been in B’lore so many times and seems to know every place in B’lore except the information that we need – how to get there. “Do you know the hanging bridge” asked Deepak. “Of course, I know” said Murali. “Good, now tell us the way” and the reply “oh! that I don’t know”. Thus it went on for so many places, finally Deepak and me decided not to ask him anything.

We arrived at Deepak’s aunt’s place by 2, had an awesome lunch and slept till 6 PM. Next stop was the forum. We were to meet Anand (a.k.a andy) and Saravan ( a college friend of ours) at the forum.
It took us two painfully slow hours to reach the Forum, which wouldn’t have taken more than 30 mins to reach in the worst of Chennai traffic. I really feel sorry for the Banglorians. It was so slow that two auto guys got out of their autos and were having a conversation. There was a great business “oowpportunity” for a malayali tea stall right there!! We met them both and asked Saravana if he would like to join us for the trip. His reply was a happy “yes”. Thus the number went from 4 to 5. We went to the Transit and had a light snack and pushed off to Andy’s place for the night along with the new joinee – Saravana. We finished dinner and went out to the streets of B’lore at 10 PM. Stopped at “The Corner house” for a hot chocolate fudge, where with the usual along with the usual “no smoking”, “self service” boards, I saw a new one “beware of mobile lifters”. Unfortunately they didn’t know that we guys will be there, else they would have added a line “beware of pick-up ‘liners’”

That was Friday. Will tell you about Saturday in the next blog. Didn’t wanna bore you with so much in one blog.

cheers
Sam Jayanth

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