Before people jump to conclusions based on the title I am not in Love with any stranger that I meet at airport or on the flight nor I m in love with Kolkata city at first sight it is still to sink in
This is for the two young people sitting next to me.Both almost at an age to get married a typical filmi style live picture I got to saw on my flight.
Flight Story : long and short of it
I had settled in my seat next to the window reading Yes Minister and then there's the entry of this average looking guy with his notebook sits on seat next to the aisle and there comes "Hi" which I barely heard and gave him a Do I know u a look :) and continued to read my book then comes our Heroin last one to enter the flight all hassled with the huge sack on her back and one hand baggage locates her seat and to her despair no space in the cabin now what and our hero swings into action makes space for her keeps her bags into the cabin and finally both settle in their seats.Now our Flight is ready to take off and in a few minutes we are airborne but young couple have already hit off and throughout the flight both are continuously chatting their hearts away no issues with that but the one last topic that I would want to hear on any vacation as a bachelor is Marriage and these two were sitting right next to me were discussing it at its length and breadth.
One thing that I observed on my flight is people have literally forgotten to remain slight I could hear the conversation of people sitting next ,people behind me and people ahead of me and ahead of them phew.
If thing work out for the two stranger love birds I wish them a happy life together nd otherwise also :)
So finally I landed in Kolkata (first time in the life that I have lived the flight took off on time and landed before time what can ) picked up my baggage and stood up in the queue for the prepaid taxi as instructed by my frnd Saikat :) but due to durga puja there was traffic on roads(poor Saikat stayed in the cab for 5 hours inclusive of the return journey) and hence no prepaid taxi available so called him up and told him to ask if the cab in which we were traveling would drive us back which he readily agreed at an extra of Rs.50 on the total fare. So I left the queue and went straight out and the cab was there the very old ambassador car hoped in as quickly as i could and we took off chit chatting and he showing me intermittently a few prime Calcutta locations with intermittent phone calls from Sandeep on the ongoing issues.Ah I forgot to mention that Saikat stays in Howrah so we were off and all off a sudden the Cabbie halted at the petrol pump to refill and one thing that caught my eye was the electronic meter beeping the amount and then came the googly Saikat was like Mads you must be thinking that the fair till now is that amount right and I was like yes and he had this huge big smile and like know multiply that amount by 2 and 2 more and + the 50 more that we were to give as a part of the bargain and it boiled to 800 almost till the time we got home.Man these people surely know to get that money out of our pockets.
We got off at our destined location and surprise we were to go another 15 mins either on foot or by the rickshaw driven by a cycle.We were lucky we got one rickshaw and after moving through the by lanes in Howrah we were finally home almost after 2.5 hours of a very tiring journey.
Freshened up had a beautiful home cooked typical Bengali dinner with Rashgola and went off to bed all excited for visit to the pandals on Day 2...
And ya one more thing that I learnt is Rashgola costs like Rs.2 per peice.
This is for the two young people sitting next to me.Both almost at an age to get married a typical filmi style live picture I got to saw on my flight.
Flight Story : long and short of it
I had settled in my seat next to the window reading Yes Minister and then there's the entry of this average looking guy with his notebook sits on seat next to the aisle and there comes "Hi" which I barely heard and gave him a Do I know u a look :) and continued to read my book then comes our Heroin last one to enter the flight all hassled with the huge sack on her back and one hand baggage locates her seat and to her despair no space in the cabin now what and our hero swings into action makes space for her keeps her bags into the cabin and finally both settle in their seats.Now our Flight is ready to take off and in a few minutes we are airborne but young couple have already hit off and throughout the flight both are continuously chatting their hearts away no issues with that but the one last topic that I would want to hear on any vacation as a bachelor is Marriage and these two were sitting right next to me were discussing it at its length and breadth.
One thing that I observed on my flight is people have literally forgotten to remain slight I could hear the conversation of people sitting next ,people behind me and people ahead of me and ahead of them phew.
If thing work out for the two stranger love birds I wish them a happy life together nd otherwise also :)
So finally I landed in Kolkata (first time in the life that I have lived the flight took off on time and landed before time what can ) picked up my baggage and stood up in the queue for the prepaid taxi as instructed by my frnd Saikat :) but due to durga puja there was traffic on roads(poor Saikat stayed in the cab for 5 hours inclusive of the return journey) and hence no prepaid taxi available so called him up and told him to ask if the cab in which we were traveling would drive us back which he readily agreed at an extra of Rs.50 on the total fare. So I left the queue and went straight out and the cab was there the very old ambassador car hoped in as quickly as i could and we took off chit chatting and he showing me intermittently a few prime Calcutta locations with intermittent phone calls from Sandeep on the ongoing issues.Ah I forgot to mention that Saikat stays in Howrah so we were off and all off a sudden the Cabbie halted at the petrol pump to refill and one thing that caught my eye was the electronic meter beeping the amount and then came the googly Saikat was like Mads you must be thinking that the fair till now is that amount right and I was like yes and he had this huge big smile and like know multiply that amount by 2 and 2 more and + the 50 more that we were to give as a part of the bargain and it boiled to 800 almost till the time we got home.Man these people surely know to get that money out of our pockets.
We got off at our destined location and surprise we were to go another 15 mins either on foot or by the rickshaw driven by a cycle.We were lucky we got one rickshaw and after moving through the by lanes in Howrah we were finally home almost after 2.5 hours of a very tiring journey.
Freshened up had a beautiful home cooked typical Bengali dinner with Rashgola and went off to bed all excited for visit to the pandals on Day 2...
And ya one more thing that I learnt is Rashgola costs like Rs.2 per peice.
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