Hottest car in town

On 30 November when I set out to go to Lamington road (in our Maruti Zen) to get a few computer parts that I needed little did I know that I would have the greatest pleasure of sitting in the hottest car in town. The car was so hot that even though I intended to reach Lamington by 11 I ended up sitting in the car till 1 pm, I just couldn't leave it.
     As we drove along Peddar road we realised how hot a car we were sitting in. The car was over heated and the coolant was spilling out from the engine. So then we turn into a side lane, park the car and call the garage. After an hour long wait the person whom we need comes up, tinkers around with the engine, pulls something here and there (none of which makes sense to me, u see I am an engineer in the making but not an automobile engineer!!??!!) adds water to the engine as coolant to replace the spilled chemical and tells us to drive to the garage. So thats my plan to reach Lamington by 11 scuppered. 11:30 am finds us at SBS Road - Fort. Now this SBS Road Fort is a curious little road (actually more like a street) It is that place in Mumbai where u can see men shaving on the road side in the middle of the afternoon checking their reflection in the sideview or rearview mirrors which have evidently been snapped off the car to which they may originally have belonged. The cars, some of which have donated their mirrors to the barbers' and shavers' causes, and some of which have donated their headlights or taillights or wheels, or a pleasant mix of all these to God alone knows what causes, litter both sides of the street. It can be quite interesting to watch the life and habits of people on SBS road but not if u are pre occupied about carrying a large amount of cash in your pockets and being late for a Pratibimb meeting.
              By the time the car was fixed it was 12:30 and I was now faced with a dilema - Lamington or Pratibimb? If I go to Lamington I miss the Pratibimb meeting and if I try to go to Pratibimb meeting, I won't be able to fix my computer for another 3 to 4 days. Finally selfish love for my computer wins over, but by the time I have got the monitor it is too late for the meeting. Since the car has to be somewhere else by this time, I dump the computer parts in the car and head back to the station. It is already well past 1 and I have missed the meeting, all thanks to the hottest car in town. I even end up landing onto the wrong platform at Grant road station. Oh boy! This is certainly not my day. As I head back
home I just hope that the computer co operates and works properly today, unlike everything else which has gone wrong. Luckily, oh ever so luckily the computer decides to be friendly and functions properly. The only bright spot on the dark horizon of that day was that I could drown my day's grief by watching Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix on my new computer, which helped me forget the distressing day for some time.

MORAL of the story: Never ever sit in the hottest car in town, it may just turn out to be one of ur worse days.