I am back after long illness which had made me weak, tiring & lazy....Although i was lazy before illness as well, but seems i had gone more lazy these days...............Anyways i was trying to put this story in to my blog for a while but was not able to get this into the words.......At last i am posting this today......this story is a funnier one & i am sure it will bring a ting of smile on your face & widen your cheeks........Hehhehehehehe
It was a summer of Year 1997, i was through with my 10th standard board examinations & there was a gap of few days before i join the coaching classes for 11th standard. On the other side my sister was through with her 12th standard exams. Since she had done her 10+2 from a college in Punjab, where at that time Punjabi was a mandatory subject to pass through the exams & sis was very poor with the subject........I hope my sis don't read my blogs else she is going to kill me............
Twist in the story is that since her Punjabi exam didn't went well so she was pretty tensed with the same & she told dad that please try contacting somebody in the Punjab Education Board to be lenient on mark-sheet for Punjabi subject. My family from my mother's side is a family of teachers & head masters, my grandpa was a retired headmaster. All my Uncles (Mother's brother) are teachers, so my father thought of contacting one of my Uncle living in a village Marudha. At that time telephone lines were not available in the villages & no cell phone had hit neither in our town Una nor in my uncle's village. There were BSNL landlines which were available with limited editions. STD & PCO were doing good business in the villages at that time.
Since i was having the vacations, so my father planned sending me to my uncle's place with my sister's roll number. Although through my childhood i had lived independently for which i give full credit to my father who had given me space. One of my cousin brother who is younger to me was at our place that time, who came along with me in this trip. Uncle's house was around 3hrs journey on Bus, as it was located up in the hills. I was very much excited because my father had given us 200 Rupees for 'onwards & return' journey. More excitement was about to make money of this trip. My Plan was that bus ticket onwards & return for both of us will not cost more than 150Rupees. In addition to this Uncle will give 100Rupees to us as we were visiting him after a long time.
We started our journey in the morning & reached Barsar a place from where we have to board another bus. We were just waiting for the bus & instinctively an idea came into my mind, An Idea which can change the world............heheheheheh........Well the idea was why don't we go on feets for 14Kms till Uncle's place by which we would save another 25 Rupees. We started walking it was around 11am when we started, slowly steadily we kept walking for 5Kms & there i got to remember that my shoes are just brand new. Being a teenager i was very particular about my new bought outs. I thought walking bare foot, so that my shoes remain intact & brand new. I took my shoes on my shoulders & we kept walking. Roads were not as smooth as we have today, road was rough & being a hilly area there are lot of ups & downs passing by the hill. We kept walking slowly steadily & by the time we reached uncle's place it was already 4pm in the evening.
We greedy people were badly tired & were very hungry, Aunti was somewhere on the hill to get the grass for the cattle's & Uncle had still not reached back from School. We were sitting outside their door waiting them to come back. At-last, uncle came by 5:30pm & within half an Aunti came back with grass from the hills. I gave my sister's roll number to my uncle & told him about Sister's Punjabi exam. He assured that he will try contacting somebody with whatever help he may be able to get. Myself & my cousin brother rushed to eat dinner as my aunt prepared it for all of us. In the morning we have to return from uncle's place towards home. This was the time i thought that we will be having a note of 100 in our pocket, unfortunately uncle left to school with out giving single penny to us & all my dreams got scattered with a big embarrassment on my face.
While return journey my cousin asked me Brother - will we again go walking 14Kms & my reply was a big Nooooooo.............
On the return journey we ate snacks & cold drink of hard earned saved money, My cousin told this story to all my family back at home with full spice & everybody was laughing like hahhahahahahahahahaaha & i was hiding my face with embarrassment. I still laugh alone whenever i remember this story of mine...........
Moral of the story: Do not be greedy. Be contented with what you have, and do not wish for what you do not own.
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