It all started and ended so fittingly , with bouts of tension stuffed in so fittingly that it was almost a smooth but long day .The excitement started with that call my friend gave me at 6:15 informing me about the schedule and that we had got tickets within the range we wanted it in for the same day 8 PM match , wow !! At the time my friend called me i was well into my work and would take 3/4ths of an hour to wrap it all up .Imagine.On top of that home was about 35 minutes away from me at that time .Rush home .Freshen Up very very fast .Rush to the stadium which would be choc-a - bloc by the time i reach i was sure .I ask my driver to keep the machines in the office while i get ready and then pick me up from home .Generally i do not trust anybody on this machines part and i prefer doin it all by myself , but i was helpless .I keep him waitin for 20 mts and then rush to the metro station.The 20 mts went in dressin up , gettin minorly , geared up for the match , seeing the delhi map and tryin to figure out what would be the most optimal way to reach the stadium .I leave for the stadium at 7 : 15 for a 8 PM match , when i know the stadium is 45 mts away from me via the metro ( tube ) route.Grossly laggin in time right at the inception .The tickets were with my friend and i was suppose to meet him outside the stadium at 7:30 , no idea about which gate .I leave home and forget my phone , i do not remember his number since i generally dial his number with the help of the phonebook.On the way i luckily meet a company colleague and borrow his phone for the call .3 ifferent combinations tried , all 3 wrong numbers .He needs to get down in the next stop , i am still far from reachin my friend at the stadium .I try callin someone else who is in a way 2 steps away from my friend waitin at the stadium.He would give me number , from where i would get my frnds number .I get throught the first level , but fail to reach the 2nd level before he needs to get down and take his phone back from me .Reach the stadium and ask for the gates for the ticket denomination we were going for .Ahoy ! , 3 gates for that combination , throbbing crowds , swellin like a hot air balloon at all places .I almost scrutinised a 1000 faces so that i could get a look of my friend and hence could enter with the tickets .No , that was not happening .( came to know later he waited till 7:55 and i reachd at 8:05 ).No tickets , completely tired and out of sorts .Calm down , compose myself and start searchin frantically for people selling those tickets they dont need .Get one guy , who sells me those tickets very cheap .The 500 ticket at 250 jut because his son couldnt make it due to a sore foot !!!.Watch the match from calliper to grave from then on , though miss those initial blasts by sehwag.By this time i am so dehydrated that i cannot bear the dry whiff of air anymore ,Get a lime juice and settle on a longish square leg position , with the screen on my immediate left for instant catch-ups of stuff missed.
Reach home , safe and hearty at 00:40 hrs , so tired , the bones almost dis-owning my body !Nothin much to eat except dried cashew nuts and pistachios , but nevertheless a very satisfying and tiring day .What a fittin end to it : sid is smokin the " montecristo mini cigars to glory " - wow !!!" "sos el mejor del -mundo"-it does make me feel like that !
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"came to know later he waited till 7:55 and i reachd at 8:05".... and dude and the hundreds of calls ur friend made without getting a response? :)
And the FRIEND finally feels the heat and speaks up for his rights :) DER AAYE PAR DURUST AAYE SAHIB :) By the way i had mentioned that i by mistake had left my phone at home or mayb i was programmed to do that by my past :P But friend u had been very sweet that day and i have no right to blame you , i was just making a point. U do not know how pleasurable that final match at DELHI would have been, watchin alongside u , since i could well foresee that it was not happening for a long time then :)
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