The wound caused by the second degree burns last week on my calf and ankle is still burning....I feel the heat inside….the watch shows 8.25 a.m. its Friday 29, August 2008 I am back after my first shift..
Exactly @ this time the bus which picks me up every alternate Friday to Rochester Downtown is on the way from Xerox Building No.112. The watch with the thermostat shows 2 degree Celsius and the analog dial showing 8.28 am and 10:28:05 FR on the overlay. I could feel the chillness, with my calf muscles starting to cramp.
[It was all GREEN everywhere on Tuesday and suddenly it’s covered with snow. First time experience of snow fall .Believe me ne body would love it, what a wonderful experience. It wasn’t snowing now, but the heavy snowfall had laid a sheath of frozen ice which made it feel colder even…. I just stand on the pavement below the sign post…It was rather an early snow fall this year. This was the bad calendar year …Katrina, floods in Mumbai and Chennai. I guess the earth was feeling so hot and it needed some coolants sparing a displacement of millions of people from their normal life.]
I look @ my watch yups… its 8.28…I am thinking why hasn’t the bus come yet.. oh my man.. has the bus left early today? No not at all….then what might have happened…god damn if I had missed this bus...I need to wait for another hour …really….it’s too cold out there and I need to walk back another 2 Kms to my apartment.. it’s a pain in the neck….
[People seldom use public transport and they use their own cars to move around places , not to say cars , most of them are big SUVs with a mileage of 20 -30 miles per gallon. That’s too harsh on the atmosphere less mileage more damage to the air and now the blame on depleting the air falls on the third world countries. It’s Ridiculous, they started it all and now they owe it. They have already done the damage. Still not to put behind the amount of fossil burned residue which we (India) dump into atmosphere ,it’s nearly 40 % of which the US had taken to reach from 1900.]
Ok what do I do now in the middle of the harsh weather near the restaurant ...do nothing ..stare @ the restuarant ...its interesting to see the outer wall of the restuarant , it changes each day. Its Friday today and PINK is the color for the day (“inraya rasiyana niram ilam sivappu “..Sun TV Rasi palan comes to my mind). its a bad start for the day...The unlucky part is I don’t have a choice of going inside the restaurant either, reason being timings of the restaurant. Its open only from 6pm.
I wud be flying in a share auto if it was Ameerpet or Thiruvanmiyur depot..but it is Webster where there is nobody around u to board the bus and u r the lonely human being waiting there staring @ bare roads and the locked door of the restaurant. I just grudge myself on getting a little late, I should have walked bit faster…ok..cool.. no point in thinking back….decided to wait for another 45 more minutes..thers is no plan B ..i put on my creative ear plugs..sound chords ready for the voice of Shreya Ghosal number “Enakku piditha padaal athu unakku pidukkumae…”a wonderful song…let me wait….nine more songs and there you go.... to board the bus Route no 2 From Thurston to Main & Clinton.....
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