Friday, April 13, 2007

Autowaale Bhaiyya.....!!!



Hi ol..

...as the new day starts...n provided its not a weekend (aah...!!! i love weekends..splly saturday coz its olways followed by a Sunday :) ).........
....oh ya m talkin of weekdays.......
..so my day starts at 6:30 AM in the morning whn i lazily wake up (yaaaaawnnn...!!) to get ready for the office...
..n then taking rests for a minute or two every other moment (bas 5 min aur so lete hain...)....
...by 7:35 AM.............yesss i m again late to be in time for the bus.....n now the only soln dat one can find is...dont walk to the bus stand.....take an auto rather.........

For us an auto upto the bus stand is never ol dat difficult owing to the fact that there's a school near our place n a no f autoricks cum to drop kids to d school.........
Now it happens most f d times dat there is this auto waala who cums at sharp 7:40 AM to drop students n we usually jump into his auto n ask bhaiyya thoda aur tez chalao na plzz.......

Now it so happened dat one day while waiting for my roommate in the auto i sumhow started talking to this so gentleman autowaale bhaiyya.......
n agaash.......
wat do i get to know.....

Me : U live sumwhere nearby??
He : Ya...I own a rowhouse near ******** locality................

He said it in such a way dat I was ..........my jaws dropped open.....
He told me.... " yeh jo apka waala ghar hai (where i own a simple 2bhk in a bunglow...dats jus a portion of it..) aur woh waala ghar na(pointing to the nxt bunglow) inko mila do toh haan sahi itna bada hai hamara ghar..."

I dinno wat to say now....
Having a row house in one of the most expensive localities in such a big city.........gr8.....
....n above dat.........supporting a family of around 17 ppl...........my gawd...!!!!!

He also told me dat he too has given a few portions of his small bunglow to petty s/w enggs like us..........

For the rest of the way we dint speak a word.....maybe i ve no idea y..............

n then it became so evident hw it can be done..for merely takin u a lane further these autowaalas wud charge u like nething.......no wonder they earn more than 50000 a mnth.....
......N then one of those big lessons I learnt frm life..........

Never underestimate a person by his looks or profession or ways or nething............u nvr know who he/she may be............!!!!!

I cudnt forget this incident ever...........n i olways blieved that man for the simplicity n truthfulness in his ways....definitely he was convincing n yet so humble n down to earth........

hum aaj bhi aksar ussi autowaale bhaiyya k saath jaate hain bus stand tak coz hum aaj bhi late hote hain aur aaj bhi we ve the fear ki agar bus nikal gayi toh office time pe kaise pahunchenge.................
n aaj uss din k incident ko yaad karte hain toh we cannot keep bak frm smiling too........... :):)

neways i m trying to be the morning Volatile..........
(so dat bus tak time pe pahuch sakein..... :P )

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