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You wouldn’t understand!
Prashant : Good! Bring it on… I have always dreamt of driving one! I am excited!!!
Deepak : Saala, itni choti gaadi hai!!! 3 suitcase mein hi jagah khatam!
Prashant: Sach bol! Bilkil bhi space nahin hai?
Prakati : nahin! Baithoge to pata chalega!
Prashant : Achcha :/
Pritam : Bhai mereko kisi ne bola hi nahin… mereko ye achchi lagi mein le aaya!
Prashant : Laal rang ki hai na? mast hai!!!
Pritam : Haan!
Prashant : Aur Jeep hai aur Wrangler hai!!! Mast hai bhai, ekdum mast hai!!!
5 hours later
Prashant : Abe ye to sach mein bahut choti hai be!!! Itni choti jeep to kabhi nahin dekhi maine!
Deepak : Samaan to rakho phir dekho!
Prashant (in his mind) : Two door Soft Top Red Jeep Wrangler, 4 people, close to about 2000 miles to drive, short on space, big on feeling, well! We get some we lose some!!!
Prashant : Itni buri bhi nahin hai bhai! Chalo baitho!!! Thoda bags idhar udhar karo, space banao, gaane lagao, shor machao…
Sometime later
Prashant : Hai to choti, par thoda sa seats adjust karke shayad back seat aur comfortable ho jaye!!!
Some more time later
Prakati : It’s not for a long drive.. it’s good for a day long picnic or something
Prashant : I agree… even the car has not been designed for long drives… the steering is designed to have an excellent grip while turning, and not for holding on to for long hours, there is no foot rest for the left foot, there is no cruise control and so on and so forth! But you see, it’s a dream being fulfilled for Pritam and me!
3 days 20 hours and about 1600 miles later!
I had driven this two door rockstar for about 1300 miles including a 12 hour drive on Sunday, driven in rain, driven in sun, driven in snow, on the plains, and on the hills, driven in the morning, afternoon, evening, night, and midnight, driven in 7 states, and in two time zones…
And like I read on another jeep…
“You wouldn’t understand, It’s a Jeep thing!”
Wake me up when September ends!
There are so many memories that have been associated with her that I would not even know where to start and end…
- The first time I saw her, I knew she was going to be mine
- The extreme personification of something that a lot of people would call just a car
- The fact that most people who know about her call her Radha too!
- That I was using a Rs. 250 radio to listen to music for the first few months because I was totally broke after I got the car
- That I feel the most secure when I am driving around with her
- That she probably has one of the best audio quality that I know of… what else do you expect from a combination of Sony, JBL, and Blaupunkt?
- That it has saved my family from an accident which would have been a nightmare in any other car
- That she is one of the finest machines, one of the safest cars and of course one of the smartest looking cars that runs on Indian Roads
- That she is a perfect example of what friendships should be like
- And that she still looks as beautiful as she looked the first day I met her 🙂
This September is a special month for me! a lot of things happened including Chai ki Dukaan celebrating 5 years, some things and thoughts moving at the personal front, and my EMIs for the car getting over! now I can start saving for the Enfield I have been eyeing for a while! 😛
Speaking of cars, this weekend I drove the largest SUV I have been in, so far! A Toyota Sequoia. It was a 4.6 litre, 32 Valve V8 engine which produces a mind boggling 310 bhp@ 5400 rpm! The pictures below should tell you something about the size too!
Photographs with me in them, courtesy : Pritam
of Love that is not that common, but IS !
It was her brother’s marriage, and she out of courtsey came and talked to me… and then the smartass mr. Prashant spoke, “आप अकेले अकेले chewing gum खा रही हो, मुझे नहीं दी !!!” (aap akele akele chewing gum kha rahi ho, mujhe nahin di)… and she simply takes her gum out of her mouth and offers it to me !!! I am stunned and She just laughs her ass off !!! and I still shocked ! Thankfully I am saved from any further embarrassment, and her friends come and take her away !! I am sure I was their laughing stock for the evening !!!
However later in the evening, we met again and I took her number… I think she felt safe giving her number to a stupid guy… we cannot be much trouble, I guess !!!
I did not call her for a while… weeks in fact, and after a month or so I gather enough courage and call her up, hoping that she picks up the phone… she does, and she says,” ओह, तो फ़ोन कर ही लिया आपने, मुझे तो लगा के फ़ोन नम्बर कॉल्लेक्ट करने का शौक है आपको “! (oh!, to phone kar hi liya aapne, mujhe to laga phone number collect karne ka shawk hai aapko) third encounter, second embarassing moment !!!
That one phone call matured to a call a week and then, in not too long a time, our daily 1600 hrs 30 minute call… and then transformed into one of the most beautiful relationships of my life… It did not work out the way we wanted ( but that’s another story, and I rather not talk about it right now)
Bhoomi and me went around for a good 4 years, and she, till date, is the only woman, who managed to pull my leg as often and leave me dumbstruck and in a state of shock like no one else… but her chuckle and more often than not a loud laughter at my state, made me happy…
It was like I grew up with her, from college to masters, overdose of Theatre in Graduation, to loads of study and Basketball in Post Graduation, to the IT bubble burst and my hunt for jobs and the stress and struggle, and my first training/job and then the real fist job !!! I think it was THE perfect relationship… no point regretting now though…
anyway, why was I talking about Bhoomi?
because I was reminded of my second longest relationship ( yea yea, I have a few extra feathers in my cap, but so what!!!)
Radha… another relationship that did not take much time to develop and only got stronger with time !!! My first and only “Love at first sight” as far as I can remember… here are a few pictures of her that I took on our first long drive together to Uttaranchal ( now uttarakhand).. More than 4 years now and her charm is still as strong as the day I first saw her !!!
Some more pictures from the trip here and here. and if you are keen on reading about the trip click here.