If I had kissed the truck…????

It was yet another day; my eyes were scanning the words on the most irritating equipment in the world. Yeah… without a doubt I was in front of the computer in my office. It was a hectic day with loads and loads of work on my table. Phew ….Never ending works and I cannot call it a day if I were to complete that day’s work. But to my surprise everything went well from morning till evening!! No calls from boss, no calls from colleagues and no calls from outsiders too!!! Must be one of the luckiest days in my life!! I was happy doing my work without any pressure. I was awaiting the clock to tick 5.30 that evening because it was time for the German Language class and it is my favorite and relieves me off all the day’s tension and prepares me for the next day’s asphyxiation at the office.

Two hours at the class runs like minutes. At the stroke of 8.15 PM, I always look at my watch sadly, as the next series of thoughts about work, traffic at roads and so on, invade my mind and curtain it completely from giving an affectionate look at the world around me!!! After a few minutes of hearty chat with my friends at a small shop nearby, I started home in my bike. I love my bike. It is very much dear to me!! As the charismatic black sky weaves a protective blanket on me I give a loving look towards the little diamonds studded on the sky….. But before my thoughts could go anywhere else I heard a loud horn which restored my thoughts on Chennai’s traffic!!! God I hate Chennai’s traffic!!!! Life is only about a mix of what we love and what we hate. I love my class and I hate my job. To my surprise again, I found very less traffic on the roads!!

I was delighted with every shift of the gear in my bike. Seeing every now and then at the speedometer, I sped all the way at 60 kmph. 60 kmph is normal, but in city roads it does matter. GST road is one where I like to ride with the throttle completely open. I remember I was at 70 at my favorite stretch of the road. Extreme joy forced me to overtake a van. I never noticed that there was a truck behind which was trying to overtake me!! In a couple of seconds, I was in between the van and the truck. All of a sudden, the van shifted track towards me and made things worse. The gap narrowed and my intuition said to apply the damn brakes if I were to escape death. One’s intuition is to be taken serious. All that I had was just a second to apply the brakes and I did it. My love gave me another surprise. It skidded off the road and dragged me towards the truck with a screeching sound and I was about to kiss the truck. I was not sure of what I did, but the next second, both the van and the truck went past me and I stood in the middle of the road with my eyes fixed on them. I gave a huge sigh of relief and I relaxed a bit and I rode the bike to a corner of the road. More than a relief, I was laughing!!!! I could not control my laughter for a couple of minutes. Then started home and stayed at 40 kmph.

Now, all my thoughts about the job, German class and whatever it might be, vanished from my brain. Only one stayed till I reached home – “What would have happened if I had really kissed the truck????” No wonder it was really a lucky day in my life!!!!!


“The joy of a book is in the pages you haven’t read!
The glory of your life is in the days yet to be lived!!!
Go meet the person you will become in the future….. ;););) !!!!”

written by suki :)
edited by sasha :)