Last weekend,on my way back from Vashi after meeting up with a few friends, I had to leave the auto I was in because I was getting fed up of the driver's endless ramblings and I had a feeling he was drunk, though I could not smell anything. It was too late in the night - around 1 or 1:30 - and the autos around there didn't agree to take me; so I started walking towards my place, planning to get an auto en route. After getting on the main road along Powai lake, I thought of taking a lift and a man in a red car obliged. We got talking and what a coincidence it turned out to be.
The guy lived in the same apartment complex as me, and is a graduate from IIT Kharagpur(though much senior to me, circa 1985) and a resident of Nehru when he was in kgp. He works in Crisil and some of the people that have just joined our ratings advisory team at GMC were working in Crisil before here and he knew them well.
It was really great to meet someone so unexpectedly in the dead of the night and finding out we had so much in common. It was just the second time I had taken a lift in my life, and this happened. Can't help thinking what an interesting life a habitual hitchhiker would have, meeting so many strangers and getting to know them and trying to connect the dots...
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sahi mein boss. amazing coincidence. i hope u still are in touch with him.
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