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Fellow Contemporaries This incident happened during the golden period of my college days. My friend and I were traveling to his home via the government bus and it was a holiday season and buses were jam packed. But somehow we managed ourselves to get a single seat at the rear side of the bus and thought we could exchange seats and travel. The bus was yet to start and the conductor was struggling to sell tickets and was finding it hard to get in between people to sell tickets though he enjoyed gracing in between females. The smell of everyone sweat was irritating to all and in the midst of all this someone farted and the whole bus smelled like a government toilet.
My friend and I was finding it tough and praying for the bus to start so that some fresh air may come into the bus. At this point a female around 30 years of age was getting into the bus and that too with a one year old child. She looked really tired and was finding hard time to get into the bus. My graceful friend said we will give a seat to the lady and the child, but since I was literally tired I said no. but the sight of the mother struggling with the child made me said “ ok we will help the child “ so we called her and said” we will have the child till you find a seat for yourself “
So she handed over the child and blessed us for our helpful nature. After a while the bus started its journey and we were having a good time with the kid, he was really cute and we were enjoying our journey with the kid and we in between interchanged seats and the mother after an hour found a seat near the driver, since we were having a good fun with the kid, I said lets return the kid to the child once the mother gets down the child or till we get down from the bus. I asked her where she will get down, she said the place and I was happy to hear that she is also getting down at the place where we are supposed to get down and I said her we will have the child till then, she said fine.
And finally the destination came ( and that was our final destination ), we all came out of the bus and we were about to give the child back to her mother and I waiting near the bus for the mother to come and to our surprise the lady never turned up. It was quite surprising for us, my friend said may be she would have gone for toilet and but still the thought of the mother going to the toilet without informing us, and too with her child with us was quite puzzling . But then we waited for some ten minutes and she never turned up. The sight of the child at that point laughing at us was like Yemen laughing at us. I searched for the mother in the entire bus stand. I came back and told my friend that I couldn’t find her. He gave the kid to me and said I will go and search in the other direction and he went. The kid was having its best moment and was laughing innocently not knowing where her mother his and didn’t care enough to know where she is?
My friend too came back in vain. Then we contacted the bus stand office and narrated the whole story and everyone was surprised to hear what we were telling and it created quite an stir and suddenly the entire office was filled with people. Few started telling that we were bluffing and we were having a tough time to explain things to people.
At that point I noticed the lady was getting into another bus through the window, shouting from my stomach I started running towards her and everyone followed me back and once I reached her, I started shouting at her “what a mother you are, leaving your child and blah blah…. “ she gave an innocent look and asked me who are you, at that instant I felt like Yemen was sitting right on my head and everyone around us gave a look that scared me to death, by this time my friend was already in a pool of water, crying after his birth.
The issue got very serious and there was no way we could get to a point. We showed our college identity card to the people and we informed our friends in our college and our warden and few of our friends were already on their way to reach the place we were in. Then an auto driver suggested we will take over this to the local police and there is no point we fighting over the issue. Since I thought there was 100% justice in my side why not take the problem to the police station.
We went to the police station and I explained the full story to the inspector. The inspector enquired us fully asking us the college and the family details and even made a call to our parents, frightening them also. The whole episode was like something which was happening in a film. All this took some three hours with so many cases coming in between and the thought I was sitting inside a police station made me feel more frightened and I was searching for words to get out of my mouth. My friends and my hostel warden came and to a little extent the inspector started believing us and the lady was crying like hell saying she didn’t know us and this made the inspector not to believe in us also.
The inspector told the only truth can be known from the child and he took the child, all this time till now, the only thing the child was doing to laugh, laugh and laugh. The inspector placed the child at a distance and said to whomsoever the child goes, there lies the destiny. If the child goes to the mother, then I will close the case in favor of you else the case will be closed against us and we will be punished for troubling a lady. The child was placed at a distance and the child crawled slowly to us. Damn shit I thought why the hell I offered to take the child with us. Since the child was with us for the past 6 hours or so, it was attracted to us and it came towards us. The inspector with the stick in his hand gave us a strange look and asked us guys what is happening? My warden was also totally baffled by this situation and pleaded the inspector this is not the way you can handle this case. The inspector then took the child and went to the lady and asked the child “do you who is this” the only thing the child knew is to laugh and it did that with grace. Again the inspector placed the child at a distance and this time thank god the child went to the lady. Now everyone was puzzled as to know what was happening around us. The inspector got totally confused and he came toward me and said “I thought I shouldn’t kick you guys, but unless I do that I think I won’t be getting the answer”. I really don’t know what to say and saw my warden and he was busy calling to some sources he knows to save us. My friend I couldn’t see him at all, he was immersed in a sea of tears. The inspector with the stick in his hand gave a hard knock I on my head and I woke up with sweat all over my bed and my mother bringing coffee and saying me good morning.
The journey - Thursday, September 29, 2005 -
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