stress delimited - Friday the 13th

I had been looking forward to this day since the last...15 days.

The last 2 weeks had been spent going out regularly to beat the heat at office. But those late night maneuvers and sleeping at times when the god fearing wake, did leave me restless and wanting from work in the mornin's. The only event that would re-kindle the spirit a meeting that would make me look creative and in others words waste time.

Finally the day did come but was clashing with one of the of-beat parties the office throws now and then to 'de-stress the youths'...and youths that don favour the optimism in the field are considered less pro-active at work; guess virtual management did leave them out of common sense and anyhow all do not share the fervour passing around.


The black day as it is considered in Hollywood, flying out on Friday the 13th did raise my spirits.

With an off-shade jeans, a knife slash at one side, wearin' a Kurt Cobain t-shirt and a 'Star of David' around the neck. A recklessly thrown over 'Provogue' jacket combined by a i-Pod wire hanging loosely at my ears....i made my way to the airport lounge, bearing in mind to not talk non-sense during the flight or on the airport.

The silent and zombie crew of Spice Jet did not amuse me much, rather an addition to the kitty of bloated and worthless crew of other carriers (except Kingfisher of course).

At the Pune airport, a quick meeting with parents, bro and bhabhi I headed for home. This was followed by my fav lunch and finally was looking forward to the evening ahead (planned quite a number of days in advance even to the minutest of details)...

...met my college friend after 3 yrs in one of the good malls of pune (a hot pickup joint one might say)...pleasantries were passed around, and then we hopped down to the basement to gather his car...a pretty green chick with leather overalls all ready to be driven...

he had a good command of her, and with traffic rules gone for a toss late in evening we went to a 5-Star, that served drinks over an aura of live music.

Some small number over the line, and little talk we came up to date with whats happening in our lives and gradually settled to the tune of one of the fav numbers we listened while in college.

the drinks were followed by a healthy yet appetizing late night dinner, at another one of the 5-star hotels. Service immaculate so were the guests, and a dance with a gorgeous one ended the star studded night.

But better late than never, we hopped on back to the car a cruise back to the place i was staying...at night asking security guards who looked more dead than the night itself, we just couldn't locate the place. A couple of blocks further we saw two females taking the dog out for a walk (!!!wearin' party wear!!!). Cordially i got out of the car, and asked in a real pleasant voice, "Excuse me Mam', can you tell us where the place is?

Guess the dog would have been in more sense then them, a tug from the dog got them out of their dreams, and the one farther to me answered "Sorry! we are new to this area".

Without missing a beat I replied back - "ladies, you don seem to be in the proper mood do you want any one of us to escort you back home"

The latter with the dog replied a "yes!"...

I told her "Mam' the dogs too big to fit inside, if there is no problem one of my friends gonna escort your other one home"

Expecting a sharp remark, the ladies kinda surprised us by agreeing to the request. Giving the address of a location a little way up the road. I tol' my friend to move ahead with one of them and I would follow suite.

Moving to the apartment we left the dog, and everyone hopped into the car to head to one of the pubs that opened till late at night...

...an entire night of fun and frolic, could beat a dead-beat office party any day...

we returned back in the wee hours of the morning, dropping them off to their place; exchange of numbers and the casual getting to know each other done in the back seat, promising a blast if another party came our way till Monday mornin' - the time i would be returning back to my lone and monotonous office schedule...