Saturday, July 4, 2009

When Advice Came True

Hello People,

I have been away from blogging for few days now. Hmmm events in life give less time to blog :) - I wanted to share an experience i went through recently, i believe quite a few of you all would have go through this.

Myself and good friend of mine Vadi decided to go to Dharmasthala. Had plans of visiting the temple since the beginning of the year and just could not make it up. We were scheduled to leave on Saturday and bus journey was to start at 10: 00 PM. I boarded the bus in Vijayanagar and Vadi joined me in Sheshadripuram. The journey was good, talking about good old college days, remembering the fun and off course about work as well. You can't really sleep in a sleeper coach, can you? , It started raining as we started the journey. We managed to get some sleep after 2.00 AM and woke on time when the bus reached the Dharmasthala. A pleasant day, warm weather could not have asked for a better Sunday and i had more in store. It was day dedicated for standing in the Queue. After an hour and half of walking through the queue early morning for hair offering ritual , we managed to find our our selfs accommodation and headed towards the temple after finishing a light breakfast.Dharmasthala is one of the most sacred place in South India and has a huge following of people. We entered the temple premises at 9:50 AM and stood along side the queue, and finally managed to get Darshan at 2: 45 Pm . Hmmmm a day to remember and we could not wait any more to head to the food court. If you have been to the place, by now you should know about the timing that you need to keep up to finish the food served, its amazing and i don't complain as they serve thousands and thousands of people.

After, we headed to the KSRTC counter to book our return tickets, adding to the surprise we were informed that they only had two tickets for sleeper coach left which were seated in the last row. Opps you know it is difficult to travel in that :) - We were informed that, there would be buses heading to Bangalore ever 15 minutes. We headed to the lodge and packed our bags and left to the bus station. Boarded the bus at 3.15 and started our journey back home, and man we were TIRED :( - Managed to get some sleep in the bus started of with our conversation of professional funny experiences and the bus stopped at 9: 30 PM for dinner at a town after Hassan. Oh Boy what happened next, we could not have asked for this. We decided to get down and have dinner. As we ordered Dosa and finished eating we noticed few passengers who were in our bus next to us. Thinking that we have few more minutes before the bus leaves we stepped out to buy a fruit drink. On our way out, right in front of the hotel there was an bus standing which was very identical to the bus we were travelling in. Happily thinking the bus is still here we took our own time to finish the drink and decided to head back to the bus and now cam the shocker. We did not see any of our co passengers in the bus and we could not believe that our bus had left, Man we felt of middle of no where. We decided to approach another bus which was heading to Bangalore and request them to drop us till Bangalore or stop midway when we noticed the bus in which we travelled. Luckily a driver ( private bus) obliged and allowed us to board the bus and man it had been a day where we had to stand for hours and guess what we could not find any seats in the bus, can't complain as we invited the trouble :) On our way we could find the bus and were little afraid that we might loose our luggage. Suggested Vadi to call any one of his friends and request them to go the bus stop to collect the baggage. We only had our mobile phones and wallet with us .Thanks to my mobile phone, we managed to contact Vadi's friend and briefed on the situation and boy he was smart and quick to react. Within no time he reached few places where the bus could not stopped and finally went to the extent of speaking to the Depo manager in Majestic about our problem. He waited for the bus to arrive in Majestic and spoke in kind with the conductor and collected our luggage's. Thank God, all was fine. A sign of relief when we got to know that he was able to find the bus and collect the luggage's. I thanked him sincerely and for all his timely help. We were sure would have lost the luggage's if he had not been there on time.

Go through this situation, i always used to remember my Dad & Mom always advising to be very cautious when we get down from the bus. They tell this time and time whenever i travel long and this experience made me remember there advice and no i have not told them about we went through ;)

Alright folks, See ya for now. Next time i board a bus on Long Journey, guess what i will do? I will take down Conductors mobile phone number and buzz him if i miss the bus :) lol

Take Care...

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