Harbingers of Misery

I am a sheer failure at reading omens, i see the precursors of doom every where and don't heed to the warnings ! we start from yesterday: I had a very hectic day at work, i had been running from pillar to post doing errands for an upcoming event, in the evening i had promised to visit a father's friend so i was anyways not looking forward to a usual restful evening. But this..... i had not expected.

The acquaintances were good people they had sent some one to pick me up, i spent a quiet evening at their place and insisted ( on second thoughts i invited trouble open heartedly and quite unnecessarily too ) to go back on my own. it was drizzling and the sky had a very deep shade of gray instead of the usual azure at this hour. ( An omen), i sat in the volvo occupied a convenient seat and was enjoying other people running to weather the storm, when the conductor asked for the ticket i looked for my wallet , i couldn't find it, worse i couldn't remember where had i misplaced it. i was forced to join the bandwagon of those forsaken people who i had been looking from the window and humoring my self ( i did not know i would be rewarded so soon for my impish pleasures). you can find a fleet of buses on the outer Ring road in Bangalore, but finding an auto there, who would be ready to drive till Indiranagar, is a Herculean Task, i found one, after 15 minutes of tryst with the rain, paid on reaching home, and was glad that the day was finally over. But the troubles were waiting for the climax!!

The same night we ran out of water, its surprising how Bangalore runs out of water when its pouring every where, Water here, water there but not a drop to drink :(
By morning there was just enough water to brush my teeth. Wow what a lovely start... couldn't have been better!!!

Sulking i reached office albeit 45 mins early than usual, from here things started to look up a bit, we run our office from a nice apartment off MG road which is set up with all modern amenities and we are by default supposed to keep a fresh supply of clothes and other toiletries for emergencies like curfew's, terrorists attacks, overwork etc. ( though these kinds of emergencies they would have never thought of). I made use of all that was at my disposal, took a long bath, have decided to go for a king size breakfast and looking forward to the usual leisure of an evening well deserved.

Hopefully i am out of dark ages and re welcomed into civilization, and have running water at home by now :), i have two friends joining me tomorrow from Delhi and i am in no good humor to go through the plight of the day before. I am hopelessly optimistic :)

toi toi toi !!!

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Suyasha