The Cab Ride

Its almost midnite and I am exhausted but I have to write this down b4 I forget about it completely and once u read about it u'll realize why.....

SO things have been super busy at work lately and yesterday things just went to another level....anyways it got super late and b4 I knew it was 12.45 pm and we realized its high time we left for home. I take the train home but my colleagues just won't let me and I was forced to take a cab. So a colleague of mine calls a cab service and this cab shows up, now my work place has the worse location ever imagine Dharavi only its under a bridge (ya I know talk about livin the American dream) anyways so the cab guy shows up and he's this gora/Spanish lookin guy with all sorts of tattos and piercings over his body and I am super paranoid so I almost feel like refusing to get into the cab. But then I don't wanna act like a baby so I do get in the cab and I immediately call my roomate and tell her to stay on the phone with me till I reach home. Ok so I know I am sounding like a chickhen rite now but in my defense I hav never taken a cab to work ever so I don't even know the way by road and it was like past mid night and there wasn't a single car on the road. Bak to the story... so I am on the phone with my roomate whose also an Indian and I am tellin her how I had a bad day at work and all of a sudden this guy pulls the cab aside and I start freakin out and tellin my roommate- god why did he pull up, WHY DID HE PULL UP!!! and I ask him if everythings ok and he starts the cab again, so by this time my paranoia level has reached it peak and I am tryin to read every road sign possible to know which direction we are goin in. Meanwhile my roommates still on the phone and I am telling her things like " pata nahi yeh kuan se sunsaan raste se leke jaa raha hai". Finally I spot a place close to my house and I tell my roomie- I'll reach in 5 mins cum down with the money (ya din't even hav money to pay the cab --wat?? cabs are expensive here, also one of the reasons why I have never taken one to work ever). And as soon as I hang up this cab guy is like" so wat happened, ur car broke down" and I tell him that is was just a late day at work.....then he ask me the usual "where u from" to which I reply the obvious " India". And then he asks me the unusual where in India and in my head I am thinkin does he even know places in India, and I reply Bombay (I like it better than Mumbai) to which he says the shocking " Ohh aap Mumbai se ho" and my mouth just open in shock cos this is a gora lookin guy ok and thru out and I mean thru out the freakin cab ride I was paranoid and I sayin stuff like -Meri phat rahi hai, blah blah .......all in hindi to my roommate. Finally I manage to say " Aap ko hindi aati hai" and he's like -ya I am from Punjab in India. He didnt look like he cud be from India at all ok, it turned out his dad was from Punjab and hi Mom was an American which kinda explains his gora looks and this kid lives in Punjab for like 6 months of the year and he even had an India ke flag ka tatto amongst the other hundred ...lol! Ya this info and more he gave me in 5 mins .....OMG but the entire episode wa so funny ...I payed him and then b4 he left I said Sat Sri Akal (good bye in Punjabi) and he blushed and said the same bak......And as soon as I got in the house I told my roommate and we burst into a laughter non stop for like 30 mis. Cos the kinda shit I was tell her thruout the cab ride - this guy must be laughin all the while.....it was hilarious. The are soo many Indians na In New York , New Jersey the god damn language advantage now ceases to exists anymore....

So anyways I was just talkin to my brother and he's like remember this incident so that everytime ur low u think of it and smile and well wat better way to remember sumthing than writin about it ....