A Not so beautiful Tuesday morning. I get ready for college. Start for the bus stand. Sit in the bus. The bus starts. Time to buy a ticket. I start tearing my bag apart. Why ? Because i cannot find my frickin purse !
People always keep asking me why i don't maintain a purse and go around stashing money in four to five arbit places within my bag. I thought over this and got myself a tidy little black purse from home. I remember how meticulously i put in loose change into it today morning. And damn ! How i cursed myself for even paying heed to those idiots who gave me the "maintain a purse" advice. And then i remembered -- this is the fuckin reason why i never maintain a purse unless i'm on a formal outing. Because, of all the things that i usually take to places, i know i ll end up forgetting this one thing !!
I was still tearing my notebooks apart when the couple sitting next to me noticed i was going crazy. When they heard i had forgotten my purse, they offered to pay for my ticket. 7 rupees. Gawd and i was able to fish out 2 bucks from my now disheveled bag. I decided it would be too cheap to give the 2 rupees to them. So i clutched it tight in my fist till it became almost as hot and flushed as my face !
Sincerely, I thank you, Mr & Mrs. XyZ. (i was too embarassed to ask your names)
But the cynical, ungrateful, bitchy me couldnt help thinking -- If i was not dressed as i was, or if i was not carrying doesn't-come-cheap electronic gizmo or if i was not wearing those diamond rings on my fingers, i wonder if they'd deem my unfortunate mishap genuine and help.
Damn my impudence
3 comments:
This has happened to me in Toronto. I was in the subway and realized that I don't have any cash. But I really needed to get to my workshop so I asked around for change and a little kid offered to help me.
When i came back, my landlord suggested I should have written down his contact info and sent him the money. That really would have been the right thing to do. I guess if you had done that you wouldn't have felt bad about taking somebody else's money either.
in champaign, buses are free for students .. yay america ..
@ yash: Yes, i could've done that
@ msk: Gawd .. u gotto stop doing this !
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