That’s My Bike!

Well, not quite.

Sunday started off as usual. Me waking up late, getting yelled at for waking up late, watching TV in spite of the din and on phone with Ramya, blah blah… you get the drift. Plans were finally made with Ramya to go to T Nagat to finish some shopping left from the previous day. I announced the same at lunch to mom and dad and tackled their volley of questions and cross-questions.

And then, I was off!

I picked Ramya up at her place and we reached our hot destination. It is hard to explain in words the thrill and excitement of shopping on the streets. There is nothing like it, I tell ya. If you have never done it in your life, it is high time you start.

We just had our usual girl-girl day; shopping, talking non-stop, and passing comments about any random person (You may think it’s evil, but who cares. It’s fun :P), and when we got tired and hungry, we stopped at Ananda Bhavan for a ‘small’ snack. We then went to Jhillmill to get some stuff for Ramya, and I ended up getting four pairs of ear rings. :P

I had parked my bike in the parking area behind the building. It was quite a huge area with space for both car and bike parking. I had parked right at the end. It was dark when we left the building. We went to my bike and I noticed two water bottles in the front compartment. I was puzzled how it got there and took it out. It was empty. Ramya said someone probably just dumped their empty bottle there. I got miffed and promptly threw it away.

I then inserted my key and tried unlocking my bike. It wouldn’t budge. ‘It’s stuck’, I told her.

Only, it wasn’t stuck. You see, the bike wasn’t mine in the first place.

Okay, laugh all you want. But in my defense, it was dark and neither of us noticed. :P

We were laughing like two crazy girls there, when Ramya said ‘Oh my god, you threw the bottle away’. I tried searching for it but then we decided it was more imperative to leave before the owner of the bike came.

Even now, I can’t believe I did such a thing. It was hilarious on one hand, while on the other, I was appalled at the state that I was in! I realized it was high time I stopped getting so wound up and be a little upbeat and relaxed. My preoccupied mind couldn’t even make out which my bike was. This only makes me think what next!

Well, what can I say. I am lucky the owner of the bike wasn’t around to witness the debacle. :P