Well wednesday was one of my ,most miserable days in the hols ….
I was at the vadapalani signal and in no hurry, worser still directly heading towards 2
policemen[ expanded as : friend of the public ].
The cop came bounding towards me ,his big paunch notwithstanding.It was the red signal and in my
eyes it just seemed to grow bigger ! Nowhere to run !
His hand went straight for the keys.
The Virgin Mobiles ad flashed thru my mind …
but wat the heck i didn’t know anyone gutsy enough to pull it off .
He was there smiling at me like he’d framed the constitution or something, pointing to a list of offences
and their fines printed on a piece of paper.
By the luks he had already come to the conclusion that i didnt hav any papers[insurance,RC, .. blah..bla]
on me .

“Where’s your license ?” he asked
I gestured to him that i had it in the vehicle. After that he asked – “U have the license ?! ” 3 times – more in disbelief than a hearing defect as i had imagined !
Meanwhile i was doing things in slow-mo .. trying to think of something – because i had only an LLR .
He heaved a sigh of relief once i showed him my Learner’s license, because that can be fined !
He lookd around if he cud spot anything else… anything that cud sponsor his mid-day meal.
I did not have a helmet .

Now with a smirk – “Why aren’t u wearing ur helmet … eh …. ?”
“U think it is PASION aah [read as fashion] U think it is ISTAIL aah [style] ?”

As darned luck wud hav it … i had 300 bucks with no change at all. I never carried so much money roaming so close to home ! Mr.Vasool Raja probably hit jack pot that day with nearly 20 vehicles lined up, before mine joined the queue !
After som argument i realised
it was no use. If he was gonna let me go- i either had to be a girl[in which case-
your 2 wheeler doesn't have a number plate.. its absolutely fine !!] or know smbody wid influence !
All this for a 100 bucks u might say – But that was my movie ticket man ! Ok … maybe not a movie ticket but it could have made my scooter happy – for all the petrol he guzzled !

As for the bragging that i did about ‘driving w/o a license for 5yrs’ -
finally karma had caught up with me .
I paid the 100 bucks and they let me off.I didn’t get any bills for my ‘supposed offence.

In the end i probably deserved it.But,the thing that pissed me off was that ,it had to happen just
the day before i got my original license !

Will keep u posted on any other misadventures … god forbid it happens !!

[Saving cheers for later !]
Manny ..