On our way to Kanpur we had some real adventure in Delhi.
All the while we were thinking about the movie "Ek Chalis ki last local".
We left airport at 8:30PM to board a train. The departure time was 11:50 PM. Lot of time in hand we felt relaxed and thought of having a bite
at CP. En route to railway station from airport our cab got hit by a police gypsy from rear.
Police wale ne mari to 2 ghante ka panga.. finally things got sorted out after about 90 mins.
The million $$ question, why didn't we simply walked out of that place for railway station???
Our baggage was in the boot (of esteem) and because of the impact the lock of the boot got stuck.
In short we could not get our stuff. Tried pulling down the rear seat, but to add to the adventure the cab was CNG. So there was a big big cylinder in the boot.
No way we could pull out stuff from rear seat.
It was 10-10:15 by the time the police,phone calls to SP, FIR, negotiations, compromise, etc got through.
Now we started hunting for a mechanic who could break the lock.
10:30 in the night. Delhi. Dhanteras, everything is falling in place for missing the train.
We went to some place near Bangla saheb to get the boot open. 20 Min's wasted.
Our smart driver thought that something could be done at the "taxi stand" of Vasant vihar" (ppl from Delhi would have a better direction sense).
Time ticking.
Taxi stand.. not a person who can help.
We saw a "chabbi" wale ka number. the Driver miya thought that breaking the lock would help.
called up the chabhi wale bhaiya and he stays some place in Lodhi road - jor ganj something near the kharbara masjid.
Awesome.
Ek bechari larki (mekhla ) jisko train se jyada apne kapro ki tension ho rahi hai, aadhi raat ko agreed to go to some shaddy dark lanes of that area.
When we finally reached the "Masjid" it was already 11:05.
There were around 20 ppl who were waiting there under 1 street lamp. This was the only street lamp in that 200 mtr lane.
Boss.. PHATT GAYI.
All this while my dad was telling me that cab guys in Delhi work with cops and take the passengers to some shaddy place and rob them.
Wasn't everything just falling in place???? You bet YES.
to our relief and hard work of some 5 men (hatte katte), they were able to break the lock and untangle the hook holding the boot together.
11:20, the boot finally got open and we rushed to station saying thank to them and of course GOD.
the moment we came out of that lane.. the cabbie stopped.
What now boss???? "sahab dikki ko bandh du, nahi to khar khar karegi".
come on...
11:45 we finally made it to station.
All our arman of eating Chole bhature and Rajma chawal at CP were washed away.
One thing that I missed above, the moment police gypsy hit us, I called a friend, who was in Noida at that time (whom we were supposed to meet at CP).
We were finally able to meet him at station but his route map was something like this Noida, CP, Gurudwara, Vasant Vihar, Lodhi road, station.
in this entire stretch we were never able to meet him as by the time he would reach at one place, we would have left to the next destination.
Sitting in train me and mekhla had a really good laugh..
