Stranded!

What a weekend! And I mean the weekend right from Saturday morning...Very very early in the morning!

OK...Going back to Friday, things seemed to be normal with the usual work going on when all of a sudden I get this call from one of my friends and he says the trains were cancelled and so there were problems in heading back home..uh oh....Looks like a bright beginning! Now, to make things a bit more easier to understand, I was using this guy's bus ticket and he in turn was using another guy's train ticket. So now that the train was cancelled, he needed a ticket to go home and since I had his ticket,I offered it back to him (I was always so generous! hehe). So here I was, with the weekend looming, with packed bags but no ticket. After a bit of researching and calling up different agencies, I finally managed to get a ticket - phew!

Off to the boarding place I go, and to make my tummy happy I go and grab a quick bite but no sooner had I put a mouthful, my mobile goes 'to to to' (well a very sad and bad representation of my ring tone!) and another friend of mine calls up saying the train is cancelled and no tickets to go home - but desperately wants to go home! As mentioned above, me being the generous kind - after a few more calls to a few more agencies - called back saying "come over as soon as possible!". OK that's settled now!..No way...It's just the beginning!

We somehow settle in and the bus starts to move slowly. After an hour the driver stops and I think to myself that it's some kinda traffic jam or a toll booth. We wait for around 30 mins...Then another 30 mins!...And wait a minute...If there is indeed a traffic jam, how the heck are the other vehicles going??Duh!!. After some more time (infact a very long time) I get down to check out what's going on and then find out the true situation - The bus is out of fuel! What??!! Did they think buses ran on air? Or literally 'horse' power?. So my friend and I get down to catch another bus and go 'bus hopping' in an attempt to reach home or the nearest civilized place. Picture this...A guy and a girl with packed bags, standing in the middle of nowhere waiting to get some means of transportation and all this at 4:00 'O clock in the morning! - Certainly not the weekend I had planned - things did look bleak.

Meanwhile, the driver (the bright fellow who didn't fill up the tank!) and a few other workers had managed to get some oil, diesel, water..And whatever they needed to try and breathe some life into this limp bus, and were doing their best to get something done....And all of a sudden, the still calm of the early morning is broken by the roar of the engine!Gloryosky!. All of us pile in again and start our eventful journey and reach home around noon without much problem (after filling it up - ofcourse!)

That was the weekend...Now it's back to work again! Can't wait for the weekend again!