Avenger says SOS - Apache came to help!
December 18th, 2007
Moments after I crossed the Kalyani Nagar ICICI ATM on my bike - coming back home from office today evening - the bike suddenly felt very heavy & started to choke up! It felt as if fuel tank had emptied out. My Avenger has a big 15 litres petrol tank with 3 litres of reserve. I dragged the bike to the street light lit part of the road & tried moving the petrol knob to reserve… to my surprise & utter horror, it was already there!
Some a*s-h*le must have fiddled with my bike when its parked inside IBM. With even reserve finished, I had absolutely no petrol left in the tank. Dragging the bike to the nearest - 4kms away - petrol pump was the last thing on my mind! Asking an auto-wala was again out of question - going to Koregaon Park Petrol pump in the evening & coming back would have costed me atleast 100-150 bucks!
Calling on my roomy’s for help was one of the (& only) options - but point is, whom to call? Anna would have had slept (or would be getting ready to sleep), Rama would be busy with movies, Subbu dosnt has a bike, Ratish was not to be disturbed (newly weds are best when not disturbed 
)…
Did I miss out Mahesh d00d? lol
He was actually the first one on my list to call. I knew that in such a problem, he would never say no (even others would have not said no - but I didnt wanted to disturb their regular schedule either). Once on the phone, pat came his reply - “Maku, where are you right now, just gimme your location” - & a subtle smile came on my face - we had a solution to the problem!
Issues didnt ended there. Once we reached the nearest petrol pump (actually there are two of them - opposite to each other, on both sides of the road) - none of them was happy filling up petrol in a bottle (we had a crushable Bisleri bottle). To my relief, Mahesh had a PerlPet bottle in his bag which he uses everyday to drink water in office. Unhappily, he even gave up that bottle to fill petrol in it.
Point to remember - Dont ask any petrol pump station to fill up a crushable bottle - he’ll never fill it up!
Once my bike was back to normal again - I got Mahesh a Chicken Maharaja - his favourite, from McDonalds!
Today, Mahesh d00d saved my world for me!
In other words - as he put it - “Avenger says SOS - Apache came to help!”
Posted in A strong urge to blog... | Comments (9)
December 18th, 2007 at 10:09 pm
Anytime D00d… SOS me and I will be there…
December 18th, 2007 at 10:13 pm
SOS
Please come with a McAloo Tikki
December 19th, 2007 at 8:47 am
Bhai Mayank
Your friend is indeed a great fellow but never ever offer a Chicken burger with your money even at the risk of earning his displeasure.
You may triple your treat but with a Aaloo burger please.
Don’t forget your moorings in a rush of emotion.
Be strong
With love
Dad
December 19th, 2007 at 8:14 pm
I never said chicken burger.. it was Maku who bought it.. I am on strict diet.. so have stopped eating all oily and non-veg food.. As a Goan my diet consisted of seafood.. but Pune has made me change alot.. becoming Vegetarian is one of them..
So Maku.. no Burger.. and no “Junk Food” for me ever again.. Haa… a Apple is always welcome..
December 19th, 2007 at 9:41 pm
Kauwa chala hans ki chaal!!!
hehehe
December 19th, 2007 at 9:48 pm
Maku.. next time you wanna treat me.. offer me a Apple.. Am a Man of my Words.. I may say it just once.. but it means as if I have said hundred times…
December 19th, 2007 at 9:51 pm
Soch lo - apple hi khilaunga
December 19th, 2007 at 9:53 pm
As I said.. I am a Man of My Words.. I may say it just once but it means as if I have said hundred times.. Apple or Appy Fizz (if you wanna gimme something to drink) chalega.. Wont repeat it again
December 20th, 2007 at 12:24 am
lol!
You already repeated it twice
hahahaha!!!