Surprises come when u least expect them. that s y they are called surprises.
last weekend had one such surprise in store for me. How does one feel when he is asked to do a small favour and in return he gets a lot of fun for himself which he was not told off or may be the fun was not intended to happen at all.
One similar thing, A friend of mine casualy asked me whether i can drive his car to a distant place as he didnt know driving. i said YES !! It was OMNI ,and that was the first time i was driving that car. We planned to leave early noon on friday but left only post noon ,reason being my lousy friend.
My friend ,ya i think i can call him my friend ,aged abt 44 , deep dark in complexion , a perfect substitute for king kong , crushed tobacco behind his lips,spitting out the saliva every three steps , hands folded behind his back ,moves slowly and cannot see the ground below him , his mighty stomach would block the view !! and occupies space of a 29 inch colour TV when he sits. Can i call him "mountain of flesh"?
With all the initial NOK JHOK , finally we left bangalore with no idea as to what i am goin to do there. Long drives are usually fun ! It was kind of relief when we crossed the city limits as i only had to do was to keep my leg on the accelerator and see the road ,the trees and barricades move at 100kmph from us . what do i have to do with speed ,nw it was not my car. But yes the King Kong was definetely worried.
A journey of 1.5 hrs with that speed and i suddenly had to apply breaks to get the speed coming down to 0 kmph in 4 seconds to take a left. Now i think the maruthi guys can boast about omni saying 100 to 0 in 4 secs.
20 km s from the deviation was a remote village called thamandarahalli .
It was sunset time and there was no light on the roads and all hopes ended with the head lights. The KK (king kong) insisted me to drive a bit faster . But me a nature lover ,i was kind of lost with the scene and got back to the thought that i am driving ,only when i had bumped the car into a big pothole. KK looked at me with furious eyes and open mouth , i could not dare to give a stare at him coz i could only see his fading white teeth in that darkness.
I said sorry ,and started the vehicle again , and drove so carefully that KK is not hurt and to reach faster. No sooner we reached the place the kids in the village surrounded the car and it was tough for me to get out of the driver seat. Our KK managed to keep his feet out and landed on fresh DESI HUMAN SHITT (Obvious, he cant see the ground below him) . We went to one of his relatives house and these people insisted us to stay for that night which we did. The Fun began next day.
NEXT DAY :
Everyday the first thing that i do after getting up in the morning is to finish my Loo activity ,but here it was a different case. I had to walk about half a kilometer with my fully loaded abdomen to the fields ,a villager helped me reach that place . Man it was tiring ,i just dont know how i managed the whole way .Well these guys are really helpful , though the transition from a western commode to open air bathroom seemed sick ,i had to go for it . By the time i finished,the man is ready with a big tumbler of water,i was kind off shocked ,i told him, hey boss let me do that myself . He disappeared , when i came searching for him ,i shouted his name ,and there was a voice coming from the far end of the field,i reahed there to see no one ,i said KAHAAN GAYA SAALA , and then this guy shouts back from the top of a coconut tree. He came down with few coocnuts , cut it open with his typical weapon and said TOGOOLI SAAR. I needed it badly ,i drank so that i cud reach back home ie 0.5 km back.
After our bath we took out the car again and drove backward to reach to a hotel for my breakfast and KK's bf ,lunch and dinner . YES he has all these ,three times a day . The hotel looked like a hut and i felt as though i have come to a kannada movie studio ,it was typically like those old movies where people sit smoking near the tree side as though they are shitting . We ordered for masala dosas ,i dont know how much ,coz i would forget counting looking at our KK having them.best part was each masala dosa costed us only 3 rs.and i had to pay 30 rs. I remember i had only two dosas ,so remaining hmmmm .......... ok chalo doent matter.
I finidhed my first smoke of the day ,and our KK finished with his 3rd pack of tobacco . We reached back to village and on the way ,i got some chocolates and cakes to the village kids.All kids were so damn happy that they didnt leave us through out our stay . Our KK was feeling perspired and badly wanted to swim in the well ,i said chal0 even i ll try swimming. We went there and all the kids followed us ,one got a towel ,one got soap ,and one guy got the MUCHHU (Weapon to break open coconuts). Our KK Swam abt two rounds in the well ,that had about 30 feet of water. Well i should thank KK for one reason ,he taught me how to swim in deep waters.
When we came on the top , i sat out in the sun and then undressed my wet clothes , and what a shock one small guy just pulled out those clothes and ran away ,i shouted ,hey "yelig hogtiyo magne ", he didnt listen ,i kept looking at him ,he started drying the clothes.I said ok fine.go ahead, When i turned back Our KK is flat on the mat that one of the kids had got.
KK called me and i went near to him , we were chatting there ,and one guy called Ganga came in there. MY god he is a wonder kid. Stout dark guy about 2.5 feet wearing a white striped shirt and a red colour nicker without hooks that was just hanging like dry leaves on the coconut tree started climbing the coconut tree that is atleast 5 times taller than him. He got hem down in one shot and sealed it open for us,I had one and our KK as usual 3 Large ones.
We went back to home finished our lunch ,and our KK wanted to rest. so we rested ,but the kids there had never seen a bloated stomach like his,they didnt allow him to sleep , every kid acted as if they have seen a real king kong in their town. Then our ganga took me to a silent place where u can hear only birds chirping ,i sat in one corner and he climed a tree put his hands in a nest and pulled out two parrots into his cage. I got furious and gave a hard hit on his ass that hurt my hands . what a stiff ass this bugger had. we came back to town ,and our KK was ready to leave to bangalore ,and i wanted to stay there for few more days ,but then i decided i will definetely visit this place again.
On the way back i realised a truth ,there is not much happiness in the materialistic outlook as in city. Village is a place to live life naturally ,no pollution ,no mobiles ringing , no quarells ........
People there get free before sunset and start working before sunrise. I wish i could have all that fun here in bangalore....
This unplanned trip of mine has given me some sweet memories ,which i thought i ll blog before they fade away..
