The Great Gurgaon Deluge

Aug 5, 2005 (10:48 pm)

If u thought bombay looked horrid in the pics - with the floods and jams and all - come to gurgaon - and u'll know

yesterday, i left office at 7:30 pm frm gurgaon (close to malls) - was on bike with another friend. we encountered the "routine" jam at iffco chowk.

only diffrnce was - this time we were wading through a river.
the road was utterly jam packed - and being on a bike - we managed to zig zag along the narrowest path on the outskirts of the road, barely brushing past the walls and other vehicles.

we almost skidded in the mud and were close to going down in a "watery grave" (read ganda naala, the embankment being broken)

after 40 minutes of trying to cross atleast the 1st DLF tower, we gave up - took a detour, towards maruti, hoping to find the old gurgaon road less congested.

on the contrary, we nvr saw a more stuck up case of jam. ppl were coming in frm evrywhere, trying to go nowhere and god knows wht.

amidst the chaos, one truck waale bhaiya, assuming the road to be his paapas, went off for a stroll - leaving his vehicle in the middle of the road. the haryanavi police jats (u get the picture) got mad - rapped the bonnet a few times - and whn got no response - broke the trucks windshield and headlights.

well, we thought off better to stay there and face the "lath" charge. so we moved on to the jaipur going road - taking the roads inside gurgaon. i visited IBM, MDI, Signature towers (in shrt a gurgaon darshan) - and then retraced our steps back to our office.

so then aftr 1 1/2 hr of travelling on bike - we had managed only 4-5 km of forthgoing distance. we came back to our office at 9pm , to find that - thank god - some poor souls were stil working their ass of on the projects.

the 2 of us "travellers" sat for a while - dried off - studied a bit - and were about to go off for dinner to the nearby mall (sahara or DT or PVR) - however, we were joined in by those other guys as well - so we ended up going to Yo China at pvr mall - having awsome dimsums - and footing the bill to our clients project.

fokat mein acchha khana mil gaya !!!

came back to office at 11 pm - called a cab and went back home - only to find the flooded river and jam stil abhorently existing.

this time my cabbie took the wrong lane and blaring his horn ran past the opposing traffic. thanks to his "intelligent" thinking - i made it to my home sweet home at 12:15 am - only to come back at 9:30 am to office

well - whn ppl asked me today - aaj itni jaldi - kab aaya tu - my reply was - gaya hi kab tha !!!