Mumbai - Pune : The case of the missing passenger!

Well I've finally decided to blog about each of my Pune-Mumbai or Mumbai-Pune trips.....cos somehow they are always just toooooo damn filmy!

Like last week when traffic police hauled over the Sumo driver and we were just left on the road! Or when the car broke down and I had to tempo it back......etc etc.....

So well I thought why not blog about these trips and am sure it'll be worth a laugh reading it after a year or 2.

31st March, 2007

Vehicle: Silver Tavera
Usually its supposed to contain: 10 commuters + 1 driver
Commuters: 7 (A newly married couple with a large bag decided they'll take the entire middle row....no....not for what you are thinking!)
And well then there was the case of the missing passenger.

Well a note, I like to catch these cars - not cos' of comfort or price but because they are fast. Usually reach my place in Pune in 2.5 hrs.

Well we were all mashed in and ready to roll at around 8:15.
In the front row along with the driver there were 2 middle-aged biz-men i guess....

the middle row was obviously with our newly married couple and their biggg bag!

the back had a muslim baba! a middle aged south-indian truck manager and a timid old student sorta guy who kept asking me the time and 'aur kitna time lagega' after every 2 mins.

And then it happened....at the first traffic light: the muslim baba just opened the back door and slipped out. Every1 saw this happen except for the driver supposedly (which we came to know later).
None of us in the back row complained - cos of the additional comfort!
The others couldn't be bothered if the driver was about to lose 120 bux or whatever!

Smooth journey........then as we neared the toll naaka on the expressway the driver demanded we all pay up and thats when it struck him!!!! Ha Ha....should have seen his face!
He actually lost 120 bux + 25 bux commission he pays the chaps at the bus stop!

Well rest of the journey was uneventful except for the Rs 9 vada pav at the food centre.....9 bux!!!! freaking expensive man....its sticks between 3-6 everywhere in mumbai!

No cop interference this time..........the south-indian was taken up by me and my entrepreneurial (damn i still have trouble spelling this word) attitude! Was cool trying to explain what the internet was....i think at the end of the conversation he must be either be thinking - what the fuck was he talking about? Or - This chaps a god man....he must have invented the internet!

Well.....shall blog about my pune-mumbai trip on monday.............if i dont get toooo lazy that is!